WINNING SPECIAL TEAMS - North Dakota State

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HOW DO YOU TEACH SPECIAL TEAMS?

PLEASE DON'T SAY YOU JUST PUT IT OFF EVERY WEEK FOR THURSDAY....

Do You Tell Your Kickoff team to "Run Down Field and Keep Your Lanes?"

Learn from a Division 1 Program

--> SEVEN different ways to cover Kickoff. Twists & Stunts just like you would do on Defense

--> Drills to install Kickoff and KO Return

--> Tackling drills specific to Kickoff Coverage

--> 3 Kickoff Returns

Lessons

1 Who is Coach Braun? 2:11 2 Introduction 2:02 3 Teach Technique First 1:47 4 Get Players to Buy In 4:26

KICKOFF

5 Philosophy & Rules 2:50 6 Leverage 2-gap Technique 2:17 7 Bully 2-gap Technique 1:46 8 Vice Tackling 2:57 9 Jungle Right 45 Twist 1:05 10 Deep Right 45 Twist 1:36 11 Deep Right 34 Twist 2:20 12 Jungle Right 55 Twist 2:25 13 Jungle Right BS 54 Twist 1:33 14 Deep Left 1:09 15 Jungle Left 0:52

KICKOFF RETURN

16 Philosophy & Rules 3:36 17 KOR Base Return 3:42 18 KOR Hash Return 1:15 19 KOR Bounce Return 4:14

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The Coach

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David Braun was named defensive coordinator and safeties coach at North Dakota State University in January 2019.

Braun came to NDSU after two seasons at Northern Iowa, where he was the defensive line coach and run game coordinator in 2017 and the outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator in 2018.

He is a graduate of Winona State, where he played defensive line for NDSU head coach Matt Entz from 2004-07 and joined him on staff as a graduate assistant for two years.

Braun was the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Culver-Stockton in 2010, returned to Winona State for four years as the co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach from 2011-14, and moved to the FCS level as the defensive line coach at UC Davis for two seasons from 2015-16.

He earned a bachelor's degree in social science education at Winona State in 2008.

Year School Position
2008 - 09 Winona State Graduate Assistant
2010 Culver-Stockton Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers
2011-14 Winona State Co-Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers
2015-16 UC Davis Defensive Line
2017-18 Northern Iowa Run Game Coordinator/DL / Special Teams Coordinator / OLB
2019 North Dakota State Defensive Coordinator/Safeties