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MICHIGAN’S 10-MAN RIDE
Four keys to make it work for your team
BY BRIAN LOGUE Watch a Michigan men’s lacrosse game and it won’t be long before you hear someone talk about the 10-man ride. Wolverines coach John Paul had tremendous success with the ride while winning MCLA championships in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and he has continued to utilize the tactic since Michigan moved to the NCAA ranks. The Wolverines are not the only team that uses a 10-man ride. Bucknell is famous for it, and North Carolina has deployed it more recently. A lot of people thought Michigan would have to ditch the tactic when it moved from club to varsity. Not so.
1 Buy-in
“You have to have buy-in from everyone for it to be successful. If one person isn’t 100-percent dialed in, it can fail, and it can fail dramatically.”
2 Repetition
“When we used to use the 10-man ride all the time, we didn’t do any drill, whether it was 1v1 or 6v6, that didn’t end with us at least getting into the start of the 10-man. The key is getting into it and once you’re in it, you’re in it.”
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“When we fi rst went varsity we weren’t at the same talent level, so we were looking to slow the game down. If we could make someone take 20-25 seconds to clear the ball, that was one of the elements to our whole game plan,” Paul said. “Now we’re looking more to be aggressive to create turnovers and transition.”
But is it a strategy that translates to the high school level? “I tell every high school coach I talk to in the Midwest that they should run it all the time,” Paul said. Here are Paul’s four keys to make the 10-man ride work:
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Knowing roles at both ends of the fi eld
“Your attack has to be able and willing to ride, and you have to have a goalie who’s not afraid to come out of the goal. He might give up a cheap goal, and he has to be able to move past that.”
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Change in thinking
“One of the things you have to fi ght a little bit is that on the ride, most players are taught to give ground and to not jump forward. In the 10-man, it’s completely opposite. You need to come forward and be aggressive.”
May 2016 » LACROSSE MAGAZINE 57
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