{"id":7484,"date":"2015-01-08T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=7484"},"modified":"2015-01-08T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T09:00:11","slug":"hail-the-setter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/08\/hail-the-setter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail the Setter!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back Mark Lebedew tweaked some comments from legendary football coach Bill Walsh.&nbsp;He turned them into a post about the<a href=\"https:\/\/marklebedew.com\/2012\/07\/24\/bill-walsh-on-setting\/\"> characteristics of the ideal setter<\/a>. It reminded me of an experience I had a few years prior. I was watching a college football bowl game (2010 Sun Bowl, I believe). Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Bob Griese was the analyst. He made a comment that really bothered me. He called the football quarterback the only position in sports where the individual coordinates, plays, and leads their team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ummm&#8230;.hello! Setter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?s=setter\">volleyball setter<\/a>, the football quarterback has it easy. Granted, setters don&#8217;t usually have to deal with 300lb defenders trying to smash them. They do sometimes, however, to have to contend with big goon middles who won&#8217;t get out of the way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put the risk of a pile of big, sweaty guys burying you aside and consider these points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Setters often must chase the ball down. Quarterbacks get it placed basically right in their hands.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The quarterback only runs one offensive play at a time. The setter often runs multiple plays in a single rally.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A quarterback rarely plays defense, while a setter plays it constantly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most quarterbacks get their plays called into them from the coach. Setters often call their own plays. (see <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/calling-plays-from-the-bench\/\">Calling plays from the bench<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Setters often have to improvise on the fly, while quarterbacks usually get to run the play they called.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Setters are also leaders, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Football and volleyball are very similar sports (even Brett Favre says so) in structure. Maybe we should use that to help elevate the profile of the sport &#8211; at least in the US where football is king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think about it, the setter in volleyball may be the premier single position in sports &#8211; not the football quarterback which often gets that nod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[292,293,456],"class_list":["post-7484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-setter","tag-setting","tag-volleyball-setter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}