118 Larry Vucan - Southlake Carroll HS (TX) & USA Baseball

Vucan (View-can) Notes

 

Bio

• HC at TX 6A Southlake Carroll HS
• 2022 ABCA National HS COY
• 2018, 2019, and 2022 TX 6A State Champions 
  • Schools first back to back state championship
• 2018 El Paso Baseball HOF
• 2017 started HC at Southlake Carroll 
• Dallas/Fort Worth Coach of the Year 2017 & 2019
• El Paso Franklin HS and last 6 straight playoff appearances
• AC at Bel Air
• Coached and managed in Italian Baseball League
• Known for his Player development system
• USA Baseball task force

 

Notes

• “The compete clause” - 
• Build as much competition into your drillwork as much as you can
• Final four is ROund ROck - “Round Rock” challenge
• Break into teams and who can compete
• What can I do to make them competitive?
• Point system, scoreboard
• Teammates become the assistant coach
• 10-15 coaches on the field
• 3 headed monster in offense
• Video first, then rep, and start practice each day
• Long hold and glove drop to defend the bound jump
• What is your identity based on your abilities
• Tally the number of successful steals
• Feedback to the competition
• Tally the pickoffs form catchers and pitchers
• Recruit the kids who don’t want anything to with athletics, and they get credit for baseball as the statistician (or whatever role)
• Only way you will get them to grow is to get them uncomfortable
• How can I make this small segment tallied, competitive, get a result, and fun!
• Fall start more acclimation
• After fall ball shut down arms shutdown
• HHB - makes competitive spirit
• “Fundees”
• Coming up to tryouts focused more on culture than competition
  • Here is your wake up warm up
  • Here is where your bag goes
  • How to set up machine and break them down
• Your competing to build culture!!
• Comfortable in my own skin as a coach
• 50/50 on mechanics and relationship talk
• Before practice and highlight who you have talked to
• Convo tab - tally each time we talked
• Research the kid based on the amount of tallies
• Holding them accountable and still get it back to wanting them to be successful
• No objectivity, it was all subjective
• Kids (managers) became data input
• Posted, running total of all data collected from practice
• Meetings and questioning went down
• Got the kids competitive
• Do not talk to the “nerds” (only rule or RUN)
• Situationals BP (tallied) - “mop up” BP based on previous game
• Competitive or tinker bullpen
• IPP - individual pitcher plans
• Catcher wears pre set script on wristband
• On deck pitcher tallies
• Stretch every 3 pitches, in and out an AB in 3 pitches
• Pattern 1 (fast) or pattern 2 (slow)
• Mental competition to build up intentional throwing - this is what we are looking for (goal/focus)
• After throwing send report how the arm felt
• Game changer accounts to see pitch loads and track pitchers progress
• Prescription for each individual pitches (no arm side run, vertical break on slider, flat fastball, etc) need to work on so they know what to work on based on where they are
• When you lose your edge, you die
• You may not be feeling it that day, but you can out compete that dude. You are not going to let that guy WIN.
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