Practice Organization Archives:

Competition When Coaching Youth Football To many of us coaching youth football get caught up in measuring ourselves against the competition. When we win a game by 1 point, somehow that is confirmation we are doing something well and often times when we lose by 1 point, that is somehow confirmation we are not performing [...]

Your Last Football Practice of the Season All of us want to make that last practice special for the kids, so they can have a good memory to look back on during the off-season. That goes double for the kids that are aging out of your program and will not be able to return for [...]

Don’t Let Inclement Weather Affect Your Youth Football Team What do you do to lessen the effects of bad weather on your youth football team? Why do some youth football teams play well in bad weather, while others don’t? First of all know that you as a youth football coach, no matter how important or [...]

Playing to the Whistle “Play to the whistle” is the mantra of many youth football coaches, including yours truly. We want our players to effort and finish off plays, a concept many players struggle to grasp. We teach and reinforce that standard by making all of our drills a bit longer than the typical youth [...]

Getting Youth Football Players to Play Assignment Football  Many youth football players fail to understand the need to play “assignment football”.  This can be one of your biggest headaches when coaching youth football. Too often many players abandon their base alignment, base technique, base read and assignment to pursue their own selfish interests. In many [...]

Practice Pace Problems in Youth Football  We are finished with our coaches clinic season for 2009. Many thanks to the folks in Chicago, Sonoma California, Cincinnati and Seattle over the last few weeks who had me out to their areas for public and private coaching clinics.  We look forward to answering your questions and hearing [...]

How to Scrimmage With Fewer Than 22 Players In Youth Football  Many youth football teams struggle with “scrimmaging” against themselves  because they have fewer than 22 players. There are a number of solutions to that problem, but before we go there, let’s talk about scrimmaging.  Think About Scrimmaging While I agree kids need full contact [...]

                                     Time Saving Tips I’m a task master when it comes to eliminating dead or wasted practice time in youth football. While we have been able to eliminate or reduce every time wasting activity known to man in our practices, we still seem to find a few overlooked areas from time to time.  While you [...]

More Votes for “Wrist Coaches” We have dedicated a number of posts on this blog about all the great reasons to go no-huddle and use “wrist-coaches” to call in your plays. But I overlooked one very important benefit that was pointed out to me by a youth football coach using my system that attended my [...]

Crushing the Time Bandit When Coaching Youth Football   In many ways if you eliminate wasting time during your youth football practices, you can nearly double the amount of “true” practice time your kids get compared to your competitors. There are literally scores of time wasters laying in wait to steal your valuable practice time. [...]