113 Greg ”Mams” Mamula: University of Delaware

Mamula “Mams” Notes

 

Mam - you - la 

 

Bio

• HC at University of Delaware
• First year as HC
• Former recruiting coordinator and associate head coach at Florida Atlantic University
  • 3 NCAA Regional appearances and won 2 Conference USA regular season titles
• 2019 Conference USA Assistant Coach of the Year 
• Former assistant coach at the University of Cincinnati 
• Former head coach at West Chester University for three years
  • PSAC East Coach of the Year and Atlantic Region Coach of the Year in 2009
  • Reached the World Series and placed 7th
• Former assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Delaware from 2002-06 
• mamula@udel.edu

Notes

• Change the expectations
• Everything worthwhile is uphill!
• We will resort to what we know
• Its the guys that genuinely care about each other are the teams that win in April and May
• Getting to know each other the last 10 minutes of practice
  • Hero, highlight, hardship
  • NO CAPTAINS
  • Leadership training - 21 laws of leadership - each guy teaches 1 law of leadership and how to apply it to the program
  • Last 10 minutes of weight room break it down and call out players who did it well that day!
• We are all leaders! Household, job, 
• Only as effective as the guys handle it and deal with it
• Not having captains because we are all leaders and can lead in different ways
• It is important to the staff that the players feel it is their team!!
• Naming guys captains put undo pressure on them
• I’m going to take notes and discuss/evaluate the next day 
• Nobody is going to hit more on the field as much
• Rotations
  • Coach BP (3 days)
  • Machine BP (2 (days)
  • Everyday rounds they don’t know what is coming
  • Scripted and know the goal each round
  • Recycling the good rounds
  • Records are posted!!
  • Chart all Bp (hard hit or not)
  • Rank the hard hit % of hitters each day
  • If you are going to spaz out in BP we got no shot in the game
  • Defense is about getting pre pitch and first step down, we know you can catch the ball
• I want them to practice to get to that swing if they are a power guy
• Total rounds - 6 swings. Lose swings when don’t get bunt down
• Get some bunts down to help not shift
• Break the plate into thirds
• We fall back to our training, if we trained appropriately then we just compete
• Avoid talking about striking out!! We want to be fearless and not worrying about striking out
• 2K approach
  • Every swing is aggressive
  • In the end we still want to hit doubles and hit the ball hard
  • At our level we don’t just put it in play
  • Fear not getting off aggressive swings!!
  • Personal 2k adjustments - in the box, hands, swing, etc
• Leave them be and see what works for them
• Early Work - Warm up with tee, flips, and most work with coach throwing over hand or off machine
• BP is hard in our program
• We will mix in feel good BP as needed
• Major leaguers can practice at 50%, but the lower levels just cannot practice at that level. We need to do practice different
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