91: Ryan Kinnan - Davenport HS (TX)

Ryan Kinnan Bio

• 17th year as a teacher and coach.
• started at Euless Junior High, 6th-9th grade
• During that time he was also the Varsity Assistant baseball coach at Euless Trinity High School
• Football State Championship in 2005 Euless Trinity year
  • work for legendary Coach Steve Lineweaver 
• Assistant at Irving High School for 2 years
  • coach Trevor Story (Colorado Rockies)
• First HC job at a Texas 3A school called Carrollton Ranchview
  • Ranchview we broke the single season stolen base record 
•   9 years at 6A Irving MacArthur.
  • Irving averaged 3 wins a year for the previous 10
  • Averaged 14 a year during his 9 year tenure
  • First Baseball team in school history to make back to back playoff appearances 
  • 4 straight playoff years.
  • Also the first team to win 20 + games in school history.
• Current HC at Davenport
  • Brand new school
  • 600 kids
  • Almost all juniors, sophomores and freshman.  Every sport but football is competing on the Varsity level.
• 68 collegiate players and 7 MLB draft picks
• Learner, family man, cares about kids

Notes

• 3-5 year plan
• First had a meeting with players and parents
• You don’t take money with you, you take people
• Relationships and discipline
• Reward shirts
  • Player of the week
  • Golden glove - fielder of the week
  • Silver slugger - 
  • Cy young - 
  • Baserunning tshirt - 
• Tryout point system
• No more than 20 pitches at a time in a bullpen
• 1 first and third play
• 1 bunt coverage
• Don’t be a slave to the clock
• Mental training
• Ladder series with glove and ball
• Baserunning
  • 3 bases, 4 bases, baserunning carousel
• Position specific
• Team D/O
• Offense theme days
  • Monday - my pitch Monday - only hit your pitch or your out!
  • Tuesday - 2 strike tuesday
• 21 outs
• Situational game - pull out card to do situation 
• 4 base drill - call out where to throw the base in sequence
• Chart during offense BP using managers
• HR philosophy, if its your pitch, hammer it, if not swing late
• Intersquad - if you are thrown out you get to go back, second time your out
• Fathers night out - go out to local restaurant and spend night with dad
• Mothers night out - dress up in shirt and tie and go 
• Team outing once a month - open to entire families
• Hand written Christmas cards to every player 
• Professional baseball game
• Team dinners - team outings on Wednesday nights on shortened practice day (recovery day)
• We are only going to be as good as parents allow us to be
• Outside the fence needs to be pulling hard as inside the fence
• Steve Mackey - “2 Words”
  • Video clip with follow up questions
• Brian Cain material during mental skills at the beginning of practice
• Stop and take good deep breath as we transition to hitting/different areas of practice
• “Always Grind” hitter and pitcher notebooks - guided notebook that breaks down each at bat/each pitch
• “Opportunity for improvement” - consequence for not doing what you are supposed to do
• Recruiting talks to figure out what they really want at the next level
• It is our job as a coach to help players in whatever they want to do
• “Virtual combine”  - streamline all data to one site
• “Testing day” will put it in one site and track each year
  • Test every 6 weeks
  • Baseline testing
  • Spotlight the highest achievers
  • Distance throws
  • 60, steal start
  • EV and Blast for Bat speed
  • Pull downs 
  • Command game with 9 pocket net
• Grade reports on Sunday!
• Have a standard of a GPA (3.0 or higher)
• Business card to give out kids, and kids stats on the back that the coach needs
• Baserunning - green, yellow, red system and just have it in the dugout to see and let them know
• Fire, Stop, Icicle  
  • Fire - no rules,
  • Stop - station to station
  • Icicle - cold, no risks
• Dugout participation chart - points for specific talk and engagement in the dugout
• Daily, weekly, and monthly sheet
  • Gold, silver, and bronze medal winner shirts
• @coachkinnan
• @bsbldavenport
• DM on twitter 
• ryan.kinnan@comalisd.org
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