Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 15 - Cleveland State Head Coach Dylan Sheridan - a podcast by Jamie Munro

Dylan Sheridan Head Coach of Cleveland State University

00:31 Welcome Dylan
-Community work
-Fall for lacrosse coaches
-Fall ball
-Experimenting in the fall

02:52 What Coach Sheridan is Experimenting With this Fall
-Trying new things on special teams
-New drills
-New Ride/Clear schemes
-New rules on the riding and clearing
-New amendments on flag down procedure

05:53 The Dive Rules
-Dived a lot in the first few weeks
-Not used as much after getting hit a few times
-Will cause some difficulty for referees
-Grey area around the crease
-Playing defense differently

09:49 Coach Sheridan's Coaching Journey
-Started playing for Skip Flanagan
-Played in MCLA and lessons learned to help with future coaching
-Also played Division 3 Football
-Started coaching in Division 2
-Coached in the women's Division 1 game
-Starting a Division 3 team with Coach Haas
-Assistant at Denver
-Assistant as Princeton
-Came back to Cleveland to start Cleveland State

17:58 Lessons Learned From Coaches
-Family is key
-Lacrosse is a game that is wasted on the youth
-Learning from tough times
-Standards matter
-Humility and changing and trying new things is important
-Coach Tyranny as a Father in Law
-How to treat Assistants
-How Jamie met Matt Brown
-Coach Brown's help along coach Sheridan's path
-The ambition of Matt Brown
-Emphasis on Skill
-Reading Defenses
-New styles from Coach Bates
-Days at Princeton

32:22 Building Culture in a Program
-Recruiting good people
-Getting to know players
-Homework on knowing players
-Having current players help filter the character of recruits

38:08 Coach Sheridan's Defensive Philosophy
-Coach Tyranny's philosophy when he was at Princeton
-Slide and recover
-Rotate and recover
-Having multiple ways to play things
-Being great at one thing rather than average at a lot of things
-Aggressive defense
-Pressure with new rules
-"Pressure with your feet"
-Zone vs pressure at the end of a shot clock

42:43 Coach Sheridan's Offensive Philosophy
-Box like offense
-Motion offenses
-Hybrid of everything learned
-Hang up game
-Identifying 2v1 scenarios
-No longer having to play guys both ways
-Thoughts on two way middies with new rules

47:46 Leveraging Film
-Being developed in the weightroom and the film room
-Big ceiling of growth in the film room from high school
-Optimizing film usage
-Building understanding
-Applicable to everything from skill to X's and O's
-Individual skill
-Copycat effect

55:30 Box League and its Impacts
-Mirroring league from Colorado
-Based out of Cleveland and Columbus
-All during the week
-Level of play rose among Cleveland State guys
-Tickle down to youth level

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