Posted by Wayne Tress on 5/17/2008, 6:07 pm, in reply to "Re: Steve Clarkson is "The Dream Maker""
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I find it interesting that you call jio lucci a better coach than Steve Clarkson, and on what merit. Clarkson brings out the best athletes because, he is the best. I attended his Glendale camp. Yes he probably had a few to many qb's and a few to many wr's but the way it was organized was tremendous. What impressed me most was the number of athletes that flew in from out of state, i had heard they even had a kid from Canada. it is the complete package of training, and it is so different from other camps because its not a "run-of-the-mill", meaning the drills and knowledge they instill in the kids is so much more advanced than you find at other camps.
i originally looked into going to one of coach lucci's workouts. i do a lot of research on all of the camps i send my son to. Now, i will give Coach Lucci some credit...he has created an opportunity for athletes to come out and get some form of regular training. Some much of training is repitition. from what i could gather, coach lucci spends most of his time in the center of the field, not really coaching, and drills are elemetary at best.
Clarkson is by far the most accomplished and proven QB coach in the country! Look at his resume...his list of names is impressive (just see his website). A perfect supporting example are the people that he trained that are now coaches at his camps...Perry Klein, Casey Clausen, Geoff McArthur...those are some big names!
You must be doing something right if Joe Montana wants you train his kids.
Wayne
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: Steve Clarkson, he's good, but there is a
: better one. My son attends the Quarterback
: Combine in which Coach Lucci is maticulous.
: Speed, poise, confidence, quick and smooth
: quarterbacks areall under his tutulage. My
: son, 6' 4" 220 has grown in maturity
: under Coach Lucci. I went to the Steve
: Clarkson Academy and basically it was all
: hype. Just to make a dollar. To commercial
: with all the big names. The real ballers
: were at the A Sessions of the Quarterback
: Combine. I would like to see Clarkson match
: his quarterbacks against Coach Lucci. A few
: of the Quarterback Combine athletes have
: gone to Clarkson, but only because they
: were promised exposure and hype. Coach Lucci
: tells the kids, if your good, real good,
: they will all be knocking on your door. The
: hype is false.
: I have 6 quarterbacks from different High
: Schools with Coach Lucci right now. They
: all do private 1 on 1 training with him
: also.
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: Nobody passes on chance to attend his camp
: Quarterback guru Clarkson's training session
: at Glendale College attracts 95
: signal-callers from 32 states, including
: Mater Dei's Barkley.
:
: Eric Sondheimer
: os Angeles Times
:
: There were nearly 95 quarterbacks from 32
: states who made the pilgrimage to Glendale
: College on Saturday to receive tutoring and
: advice from Steve Clarkson, a quarterback
: coaching guru who has been labeled,
: "The Dream Maker."
:
: Most were high school students accompanied
: by their parents. Others were middle school
: students or younger. All were looking to
: fulfill aspirations of future stardom, which
: helps explains why the Steve Clarkson QB
: Academy operated through the fledgling
: DeBartolo Sports University could prove very
: popular.
:
: The two-day session, which concludes Sunday,
: is the start of a series of national camps
: Clarkson is running as the president of
: DeBartolo Sports and Entertainment's amateur
: sports division. Each participant paid $600.
:
: "By the fall, we're hoping to be
: overseas," he said.
:
: Credited with helping develop NFL
: quarterbacks Matt Leinart, J.P. Losman and
: Ben Roethlisberger, Clarkson has put himself
: near the top of the growing sports industry
: of private coaching.
:
: Whether it be football, basketball,
: baseball, soccer, golf, tennis or myriad
: other sports, the demand for private coaches
: for young athletes keeps increasing, and
: Clarkson has found a niche in helping to
: train quarterbacks.
:
: "It's not a competition," he said
: of his training sessions. "We're trying
: to educate. I'm trying to walk them down the
: potholes they'll face down the road."
:
: Randy Cross, a TV analyst who won three
: Super Bowls playing center for the San
: Francisco 49ers, flew in from Atlanta with
: his son, Brendan, a 6-foot-2 junior
: quarterback at Johns Creek (Ga.)
: Chattahoochee High.
:
: "I love this kind of stuff,"
: Brendan said. "I'm trying to improve
: myself."
:
: Randy Cross played football at Encino Crespi
: in the early 1970s and was an All-American
: at UCLA. He said the training today by high
: school athletes has changed by leaps and
: bounds, and parents are looking to help
: their sons and daughters get the most out of
: their ability.
:
: "I've got a kid who's much stronger
: than I was in my second year in the
: pros," he said.
:
: Brendan said he wanted to participate in the
: camp so he could gain exposure outside the
: Atlanta area.
:
: Cross has long-time ties to Eddie DeBartolo,
: the former owner of the 49ers, but he said
: the main reason his son came to the camp was
: because he wants him "to learn how to
: throw the right way."
:
: If the participants wanted an informal
: evaluation as to where they stand in the
: pecking order, all they needed to do was
: watch Matt Barkley, the USC-bound junior
: quarterback from Santa Ana Mater Dei who was
: selected the Gatorade national player of the
: year. Barkley showed up because he didn't
: want to lose any edge he gained over the
: last year.
:
: "Training never stops if you want to be
: the best," Barkley said. "There's
: so much that goes into a good throw."
:
: Perry Klein, a former Carson quarterback who
: was one of Clarkson's first pupils 20 years
: ago, served as a camp instructor and brought
: along his 12-year-old son, Chase.
:
: "He doesn't listen to me," Klein
: said. "That's why I bring him
: here."
:
: There were lots of promising Southland
: quarterbacks in attendance, from Richard
: Brehaut of Rancho Cucamonga Los Osos to
: Matthew Schilz of Pasadena Maranatha to Ryan
: Kasdorf, the replacement for Dayne Crist at
: Sherman Oaks Notre Dame.
:
: Corde Broadus, the son of rapper Snoop Dogg
: and expected to be a freshman quarterback at
: Long Beach Poly in the fall, was supposed to
: participate but hadn't shown up by early
: afternoon.
:
: No problem. He can always schedule a private
: session with Clarkson, who plans to be quite
: busy through early August passing along his
: quarterback expertise.
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