We are fortunate to have Ryan Lundgren on this episode of the podcast.
Lundgren was one of the first coaches to appear as a guest back when the podcast started in 2020.
At the time, he was the associate head coach at the College of Southern Idaho. Lundgren went on to serve as the head coach at Carroll College in Helena, Mont.
Lundgren is now entering his second year as the associate head coach at Eastern Washington University.
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EPISODE BREAKDOWN
2:00 - Value of working as a high school coach
3:20 - Core Values of EWU’s offense
4:40 - Building an offense: System or Players?
5:40 - Identifying strengths with changeover
7:10 - The value of stats in offense building
10:20 - Using stats to determine summer workouts
11:25 - Film sessions with players
12:50 - Staff meetings on player development
14:05 - Summer timeline for installing offense
16:00 - The importance of 5v5 in teaching
17:25 - Decision-making against coverage solutions
19:00 - Game plans versus different opponents
21:05 - Process for making a change
22:45 - Coaching an “untraditional” player
24:50 - Playing off an “untraditional” player
25:55 - Quickfire: Attributes of Leon Rice, Jeff Reinert, Jeff Linder, Dan Monson
28:35 - Takeaways as head coach at Carroll College
