Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 28 - Albany Head Coach Scott Marr - a podcast by Jamie Munro

Scott Marr Head Coach at Albany University

00:30 Intro and Visiting Campus
-Starting as a team on the 16th
-Camping trip
-Team bonding
-Start of the season scrimmages and making adjustments
-Hikes together
-No cell phone service

06:08 Journey as a Player and a Coach
-Growing up in Yorktown
-From getting cut in baseball to playing lacrosse
-Players Coach Marr watched and knew growing up
-Youth coach impacts
-Playing at Yorktown High School
-Went to Johns Hopkins and played for Bill Tierney
-The importance of disciplined X's and O's
-National Champion freshman year
-The brotherhood of lacrosse

14:18 Thoughts on Players and Lessons Learned
-Tim Nelson
-Del Dressel
-Brian Wood
-Practicing against Dave Pietramala

18:33 Coaching Journey
-Deleware University in the 80's
-Developing own style and the opportunity to experiment
-Coach Marr's wife and how he met her
-The era for University of Maryland at that time
-Big Man
-Coach Dick Edell
-Watching Army Lacrosse
-How Coach Edell treated people
-1997 Semi Finals Maryland vs Syracuse
-Hopkins 1995 game after a loss going through the handshake line

33:41 Offensive Philosophy at Developing Players
-Overall philosophy is to move the ball
-Everything North/South
-Attack driven offense
-Dodging angles
-Good ball carrying attackmen
-Shooting midfielders
-Change to personell
-Off ball players
-Dodging nuances
-Draw a slide and spread 4 off ball players out
-Everything comes down to execution

47:44 Learning from Players Coach Marr has Coached
-Thought process
-Lax IQ
-Creativity
-Patience and focusing on the next play
-Accepting what happens and moving forward
-Lyle and Myles Thompson's repertoire and how they learned to play that way
-Playing in the backyard
-Admiring their play and how they worked and prepared for games
-Playing pick up games and pass it down model

54:34 Pick Up Games
-Pass it down model
-Non structure learning
-Focus on specific players hurts everyone else
-Coaching the Iroquois team
-Development models
-Backyard development model is producing more good player per capita
-Competing in the world with a severe numbers disadvantage

1:00:25 Typical Albany Practice
-Scappin (3v2 gb drill) to start
-O/D Split
-Transition drill
-Half field drills
-Riding/clearing scrimmage
-A lot of up and down
-Working on clearing game this fall a lot
-Next play mentality
-Time spent on man up / man down

1:04:30 Man Up Philosophy
-One set to another
-Spacing is important
-Open sets and 3-3 looks
-Hands free and making sure your in the right spots

1:05:19 Advice to Recruiting
-Big attitude and effort focus
-Positive Teammate
-"Control your controlables the right way"
-B to B+ players become an A unit

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