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