Lance Guidry credits his experience as a high school coach for ability to make in-game adjustments.

After playing defensive back at McNeese State in the early 90's, Lance Guidry spent a season on staff as a graduate assistant before taking assistant coaching jobs at the high school level in Louisiana.

He spent two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Carencro HS (LA) and returned a handful of seasons later, after spending time at his alma mater as defensive backs coach and then defensive coordinator, to become the head coach at Carencro.

Guidry would go on to work in secondaries at a number of college stops, called defenses at Western Kentucky, Marshall and Southeastern Louisiana, served as interim head coach at both Miami (OH) and WKU, and spent three seasons as the head coach at McNeese State. 

Now in his second season at Miami, leading a defense that ranks among the top 11 in both scoring and rush through their first four games, Guidry recently pointed to his early experience as a high school coach for his ability to make in-game adjustments

"You have to be able to fix the problems before halftime. If you fix the problems before halftime, they'll probably go back to the things you saw on film. If you haven't stopped the problems, then your job as a coordinator is to fix the problems at half because they're coming back to it. Once you fix the problem, they'll go back to what you've seen on film."

"To me, that is where you make your money as a coordinator. You don't make it on the weekends. You have to be able to game plan, but you also have to be able to adjust in-game and know exactly where to go to by what they're doing and a lot of times that comes from experience of just seeing it."

"To tell you the truth, my high school experience has probably helped me more than any college experience because you start off defending option football, then wing-t then empty. You see everything in high school. Everybody copy-cats and you see one offense one week and then you never see that offense again, so that is kind of where you cut your teeth as a coach, I've found."

Hear more from Guidry below.

The 'Canes will welcome Virginia Tech to Coral Gables this weekend, followed by an ACC road trip to Cal (that will forever feel weird to type), before a road game at #15 Louisville.