3x NAIA National Champions(2018, 2019, 2021);
4x American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) NAIA Coach of the Year;
18x consecutive years of making NAIA playoffs;
11x Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) championships;
10x GPAC Coach of the YearCoach Steve Ryan’s record speaks for itself: 53 wins in 4 seasons with 3 NAIA National Championships (in 2018, 2019 and 2021). In this highly informative instructional video, head coach Steve Ryan outlines the many facets he’s focused on and developed over the course of 20 years at Morningside University to build a consistent, championship-caliber football program.
In a lecture style format that is supplemental with game film and practice footage, Ryan takes you through the essential program philosophies, core values and best practices he’s utilized with the Morningside Mustangs to win national championships and build a tradition-laden football powerhouse.
After viewing this presentation, football coaches will come away with a newfound perspective on the core values that lay the foundation for championship football, as well as other winning coaching tenets such as: the benefits of becoming more practice-oriented and increasing the tempo of your offense to match your talent-level.
Prioritize Strengths, Prioritize Efficiency
Coach Ryan guides viewers through a step-by-step process for improving every practice over the course of a season. This process begins by learning how to prioritize your strengths and your efficiency as a means to improve each practice through essential steps that stress:
a) forming core values that guide your program,
b) understanding the significance of controlling tempo,
c) using time efficiently to maximize practice reps, and,
d) improve and perfect execution through ‘creative redundancy.’
Development and Drill Work
This video is worth its weight in gold based on the value of experience and information from Coach Ryan alone. Regardless of your level of football or the talent-level of your team, this video can provide coaches with the insight to find a greater focus that leads to essential flexibility and efficiency.
As Coach Ryan illustrates, this process starts in the off-season and is developed on the practice field, and ultimately, builds to a crescendo by game day.
Among the many topics Ryan discusses in detail, includes how to:
- Adjust, modify, and adapt to the ebbs and flows of a game.
- Stay flexible to the evolutionary changes in football’s style of play that can occur from year to year and over time.
- Evaluate and streamline your playbook.
- Improve your players, position by position, so that your team executes cleaner and faster as the season progresses.
Ryan also explains how these values manifest themselves on game day and provides helpful game film examples to illustrate his points. He also provides highly valuable, up-tempo practice drills that help to set the tone of each practice.
Steve Ryan knows a thing or two about building a successful program. This video is loaded with philosophies, standards, goals, game-planning, essential values and coaching strategies that can help you build and refine your own championship culture!
Coaches Review: 5 Out Of 5 Stars. ‘I came away very impressed after watching Ryan’s video on program building. You can tell he’s put in a lot of thought and effort into his team and this vision has guided his players and staff to excel both on and off the field.’
79 minutes. 2022.