Better Men, Better Ballplayers

5 - Chuck Box "Combination of Everything"

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What is the best thing you do to create better men in your program?

  • Combination of things
  • How you do anything is how you do everything
  • Culture - standards set and standards met
  • Everything you do - everyday relentless job
  • Core covenants - every decision is based on those
  • Model behavior with having our families around

    • When do you start implementing your Success Leaves Clues program?

    • Helps instill our core covenants
  • Classroom for his athletes
  • Monday, tuesday, and friday 
  • Teach life skills and leadership skills
  • Advisory board - faculty rep and student rep
  • Fall - speakers, Winter - MVP, Spring - baseball
  • Mentor program - extend invitation to mentor program and honor mentors at a game
  • Intentional seating with veterans surrounding rookies

    • How do you teach the mental side of the game? 

    • Introduce in the fall
  • Practice routines and releases
  • 5-10 minute at the start of practice: breathing, visualization, self affirmation

    • How do you manage all your staff members?  

    • Understand the standards and give them parameters and let them coach
  • Coach my coaches (sit it on meetings, etc)
  • First thursday of the month touch base at IHOP
  • Give them a research project

    • What is the best thing you do for your staff?

    • Get together as a family
  • Give them gear

    • What does your toughness coach do?

    • Toughness program
      • Fire academy special forces branch
  • 12 week curriculum every friday starting in the fall
  • 6 weeks - individual oriented; last 6 weeks - team oriented
  • Each lesson had a theme
  • Tshirt made up with tough friday

    • How have your practices changed over the years?

    • Building failure into practice
  • Charting everything
  • Game like competition 
  • Practicing things that really matter
  • Weighted vest to wear during Bad Body Language
  • Rivalry team to go run poles to create chaos and make them slow themselves down

    • What is something that you have never stopped doing to develop your players?

    • Playing catch - throwing progressions and drill it
  • 20 minutes to practice - MOVE AND PLAY CATCH
  • Attention to detail

    • What would you consider your biggest strength as a coach?

    • Putting it all together, attention to detail

     

    How were you helping your players during this quarantine? 

    • Still coming into small groups
  • Sent them a plan
  • Sunday night Zoom call
  • Bring in former players
  • Call or facetime each player
  • Provide them with resources (character coach, toughness, etc)

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    How do you develop players while still keeping the focus on the team?

    • Indy work before practice
  • 230-315 early work for individuals

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    Development plan? Phases?

    • 10 Phases
  • Phase 1 - strength, speed, movement, toughness, assessments (6 weeks)
  • Phase 2 - fall skills incorporate throwing program and hitting program (6 weeks)

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    What have you noticed between the great players and the average players during your time?

    • Young guy has not developed the mental side (how to fail)
  • Resilience - in their training, routines, game, consistently show up

    • Other points

    • Grade players every 11 games
  • Shell practice schedule on Sunday
  • Detail out the night before
  • Quality at bats and OPS for hitters
  • “Quality control” - walks, HBP and strikeouts
  • Walks, HBP, opponent errors (plus or minus) - big innings happen with those walk/HBP/errors
  • 8 categories offensively -  
  • Dirtbags - team game goals 
  • Find him on twitter - @chuckbox1969

    • BIO

    • Currently the Head Baseball Coach at Hartfield Academy in Flowood, Mississippi
  • 700-321 career record
  • 10 Years coached at Jackson Prep in Mississippi
  • He spent eleven years as a college head coach at Freed-Hardeman University and Itawamba Community College compiling 363 wins 
  • Inducted into the Freed-Hardeman Hall of Fame in 2010
  • 13 players selected to play professional baseball
  • Served as an Assistant at Mississippi College
  • Been a guest on multiple national podcasts - ABCA and Dugout Chatter
  • Always willing to share and help
  • An absolute DUDE!
  • Find him on twitter - @chuckbox1969

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