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What Your Your Clothes and Appearance Says About You When You Are Coaching Youth Football What should you wear at practice and games when you are coaching youth football? Clothes need to be functional but they also say a little about who you are. In youth football you have many audiences, your players, fellow coaches and parents. At [...]

I spoke at the Kansas City Glazier clinic this past weekend.  This was a pretty small clinic, but they had some good speakers, really enjoyed Rick Darlington from Apopka, FL- 6A school in Florida- Largest class- his defense stuff was great, couldnt stick around for his Single Wing stuff- I was on at the same [...]

A Mistake the First Year Assistant Coach Usually Makes Many dads starting out coaching youth football for the first time make the same blunder, they try to “connect” with the kids by trying to look like them, talk like them or be their best buddy. In most cases the coaches intentions are noble and good, [...]

Make Sure Your Data is Real World When Deciding on an Offensive Direction   I attended a “youth football” session at a coaches clinic in the last 3 months that still troubles me. We won’t go into where the clinic was or who the speaker was, that isn’t important, what is important is the issue of [...]

Does Drama Really Make For Better Youth Football For the Kids? On my flight back from the Atlanta clinic this weekend I had a short layover in Milwaukee. While we were all congregating around the gate waiting to board for Omaha, I noticed a fella that looked familiar. Who is This Guy? He looked like [...]