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What do you do when you are saddled with low numbers in youth football? There may be an odd set of circumstances that lead you to have a team with very low numbers. If this is you this season, what changes do you make in order for your team to be more competitive? Some youth [...]

Game film is by far the best teaching tool youth coaches have at their disposal today. But how you use it will determine how much bang you will get for the time investment. If you’ve never used game film before or never used Hudl before you will be kicking yourself in the pants for not [...]

Youth Football Coach of the Year Awards Every year we award two coach of the year awards. One is for a coach that has engineered a worst to first or near worst to first turnaround. He has to be using the Winning Youth Football System and must be the head coach. The other award is [...]

Your end of season results are very important to us. We love to hear how things went for your youth football team, both the good and the bad, what worked and what didn’t work. We put 48 new posts on the testimonials page yesterday from guys reporting in on their 2009 season. We love hearing from you, please [...]

You hear do much about teams getting “fired up”, many parents seem to like coaches who appear on the surface to get kids “psyched up” before games. While I feel it is important that the kids are physically and mentally ready to play, I find there is very limited value in getting kids fired up [...]

My Game 8 Results My 7-8th Grade team won 36-20 against the undefeated league leader. We had just 1 five yard penalty in the game. Grade 5-6th won 35-12 against a very well coached 1 loss team Grade 3-4th won 38-6 against a poor team We are 21-3 combined so far and face our strongest [...]

Grade 7-8 won 36-0 after being up 22-0 in first quarter. Grade 5-6 won 48-14 after being up 41-0 at the half. Grade 3-4 lost 34-6 after having both an errant kick and pass returned for touchdowns. We are 8-1 combined, about where I expected we would be, but not quite up to our high [...]

Week 2 Results and Using Technology to Win Games  Results of this weeks games: Age 12-13 won 38-20, have yet to punt. Age 10-11 won 46-6 after taking 30-0 first quarter lead over last years defending Division Champions, age 7-9 won 20-6.  As any of you that film your games know, you never play as [...]

Most youth football leagues use the base NFHS High School rules as their base rule book and then amend those rules with a handful of special league rules such as weight limits, minimum play rules and special teams accommodations. In all but Texas and Massachusetts, the NFHS base rules apply. This year the NFHS made [...]

I always knew soccer was a Communist Plot to destroy the moral fabric of our youth, but now we have video evidence to prove it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIrN_VcZpm8