Phi-Lacrosse-ophy Podcast Ep. 28 - Albany Head Coach Scott Marr

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