RB Training & Film · Coach Rick · South Florida

You don’t need
another workout.
You need a position coach.

Most high school programs don’t have one. The backs room gets a handoff script and a blocking assignment, and everything that actually decides carries — how you read the front, when you press, which foot you plant on — never gets taught.

House of Backs is that room. Work on the field with Coach Rick, then sit down with your own tape — because a correction only sticks when he can show you the rep it came from.

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HOUSE OF BACKS

Run with purpose · Train in faith

The honest conversation

Speed got
him this far.
Then what?

Being the fastest kid on the field decides everything until it decides nothing. Every level up, the field evens out — and the ball starts going to the back the coaches trust.

Trust is built on details nobody has time to teach him at practice. Running back is a skill position. Skills get coached, or they don’t exist.

The Problem

Nobody coaches the position

Most staffs have a coordinator, a line coach, and a receivers guy. The backs get told where to line up. The reads, the tempo, the footwork — assumed, not taught.

The Reality

Highlights don’t fix reads

A clip reel shows the runs that worked. It hides the ones where he bounced a play that was there, missed a blitz pickup, or pressed a gap two counts early. That’s the tape that decides his carries.

The Fix

Field work plus film

One coach, working the same back week after week, with an install that builds — and tape to prove what changed. Reps alone are a workout. Reps you go back and watch are development.

The curriculum

Four things
decide carries.

The install cycles through all four, every block. Nothing here is a workout for the sake of sweating — each piece shows up on Friday film or it doesn’t make the board.

01

Vision & Tracks

Reading the front before the snap. Press, bend, bounce — and knowing which one the blocking is actually asking for. Zone tracks and gap tracks taught as separate languages, because they are.

02

Footwork & Cuts

Jump cut, one-two, stick foot, dead leg. Which cut the space is giving him, and how to make it without losing his pads or his speed. Both directions, every rep.

03

Pass Pro & Routes

The fastest way onto the field on third down — and the fastest way off it. Identifying the extra rusher, cut vs. square protection, and running a real route tree out of the backfield.

04

Ball Security & Finishing

Two hands in traffic, one in space, high and tight through contact. Then finishing — pad level, leg drive, falling forward. The habits that keep a coach from pulling him after one fumble.

How it runs

Train it. Watch it. Fix it.

1

He gets on the field

Small groups or one-on-one with Coach Rick. Every session has an agenda off the current block — not whatever drills fit the space that day.

2

The reps get filmed

Session work and his game tape both. Full games beat highlights here — the bad reps are the whole point, and they’re the ones a coach can actually fix.

3

You sit in the film room

Tape marked up rep by rep: what he saw, what was actually there, and the one correction that fixes the most runs. That correction becomes the next block on the field.

Coach Rick on the sideline in Chaminade-Madonna football gear

The Coach

He only coaches
one position.

Coach Rick — Ricky Henrilus — came out of Tallahassee as a receiver and signed with FAMU. He redshirted, moved to running back, and in his first season there carried it 80 times for 506 yards at 6.3 a clip, the best average on the team, and took Florida Classic MVP.

That’s the part that matters for your kid: he learned this position as a grown athlete, on the move, against college competition. So he teaches it as a set of skills a back can be taught — not as instincts you either have or you don’t.

He’s coached running backs at Miami Norland and Miami Northwestern, and now at Chaminade-Madonna — three of the most productive programs in South Florida football. He trains the one position, from youth through the pros: pressing the hole, manipulating a defender into the wrong gap, and making the jump cut without giving up a step.

House of Backs is where he does it on his own terms — field work and film, for backs whose programs don’t have a position coach.

Football is the vehicle. The real impact is helping these young men grow into strong, responsible individuals on and off the field.
— Coach Rick

Tallahassee

Came up a receiver

FAMU

Moved to RB — 6.3 a carry

Norland → NW

Coached the position

Chaminade

Running backs, now

More than
just training.

Football is the vehicle. Coach Rick’s work is mentoring young men — discipline, leadership, character — and building real relationships with the families behind them.

Every athlete who comes through here learns the same things off the field that he learns on it: teamwork, respect, and resilience.

Run with purpose · Train in faith · 1 Corinthians 9:26

Take a seat

He keeps
a standing seat
for your back.

Every Saturday at Washington Park — four slots: 9, 10, 11 and 12. A membership holds the same slot every week: same coach, same group, work that picks up where last Saturday left off. Eight weeks to start, then month to month.

We don’t do one-off sessions. A kid who comes once leaves with a good sweat and the same habits he walked in with. Four to eight Saturdays is where it actually changes — so that’s what we sell.

— Coach Rick

Youth through middle school

Ages 7–13

$69/ session

Getting ready for the season and for high school ball. The foundation — skills, agility, and the confidence to play fast.

Your Saturday slot, every week
Four one-hour group sessions a month
Footwork, ball security, finishing
Learning the position from the ground up

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High school and up

Ages 14+

$89/ session

Advanced work at game speed, alongside backs who are chasing the same thing. High intensity, and nobody carries the group.

Your Saturday slot, every week
Four one-hour group sessions a month
Vision, pass pro, route running
Train against real competition

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Members can add

Private Sessions

One back, one coach, 75 minutes built off exactly what his tape says he needs. Booked with Coach Rick directly and scheduled around the Saturday groups — he coaches full time, so weeknight room is limited.

$149/ session

Before you commit

First Saturday is free.

Come watch a session, let him work with your kid once, and see if it’s for him. If it is, pick a slot. If it isn’t, no hard feelings and nothing owed.

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Eight-week commitment to start, then month to month — cancel any time after that. Game film and sideline work — he comes to your game, pulls the tape and breaks it down with you — is available to a handful of backs at a time; ask below. Whole backs rooms and team rates too.

Let’s talk

Tell him
about
your back.

Fill this out and Coach Rick gets it directly. He’ll come back with what he’d work on first and which tier fits.

Bring film if you have it. If you don’t, a phone video of him working on his own is enough to start.

Every Saturday at Washington Park. Four slots — 9, 10, 11 and 12. Tell him which one works and whether you want the free Saturday first.

You don’t needanother workout.You need a position coach.

Speed gothim this far.Then what?