Team Management Archives:

Coaching Youth Football, the Team Audit   Many youth football coaches squander their off-season time in areas that in the end won’t do their teams a whole lot of good. Often times coaches will put their time into an area they personally like and not where the team needs the most help. If you really [...]

Advice For WINNING That Big Youth Football Game A good number of you are still playing games and for many of you, you are heading into that championship game. For some of you, it’s a big deal, you are trying to make it to the next level and maybe a trip to Orlando or Las [...]

Youth football kids say the darndest things. But what they say may give you some insight on how effective your coaching has been. We played our last game of the 2012 season this Sunday. It is starting to get cold. We have no available home field dates for any additional games, our league season ended [...]

Overview of Last Practice of the Year In Nebraska- it gets full dark at 7:00 now. So we can only practice from 6-7 pm now. It also gets cold early here- often times snowing in October, count on it for sure in November. In this area of the plains unlike Omaha or Lincoln, it shows [...]

This week we played a team that wasn’t very good. We are 5-0 and every game we’ve had has been in mercy rule. If we ran our base stuff with our first team O and D- we name the score, probably in the first half. This is what I did for that game: To help our [...]

I had to share with you some real world lessons I relearned this week when it comes to scrimmaging other teams in youth football. While scrimmaging other teams IS important so the kids can get a feel for what it’s like to make contact with a player from another team, scrimmaging is a trade off [...]

Many youth football coaches struggle with how much and how to teach football terminology to their kids. What often times happens is they teach too much and in a fashion that leads to fake knowing nods, glazed over eyes and players tugging at grass. Too many youth coaches use this time to show off their [...]

In pay to play football, parents are a reality you will have to deal with. They can be your biggest supporters or your biggest obstacles. If you don’t manage them properly, they can steal the joy of coaching kids. It never hurts to have them know you understand their concerns. Those of you that are [...]

What to Do When Youth Football Players Won’t Engage I’ve had a number of youth football coaches e-mail me with a problem most of us have to deal with from time to time, a player who won’t engage in contact. Maybe won’t engage is a poor choice of words, he feigns injury when it comes [...]

Most of the coaching tips on this blog have to do with technique, scheme, practice methods and motivating youth football players. Sometimes it may make sense to take a step back and look at the big picture and examine why we coach and what type of impact we MAY have with the kids we coach. [...]