Winning Youth Football Archives:

Often times I hear from youth football coaches that X or Y can be done with “all” youth football teams. When you do your due diligence, though often times you see those guys are playing with a stacked deck. In “select” youth football teams either selectively recruit players, have tryouts and demote the unworthy to other [...]

Sean Payton did a great service to the game by coaching Youth Football this year. Up close and personal, a heartwarming story.

In Defense of Youth Football Somebody Has To Many of you that are coaching youth football have been inundated by attacks on the game and you don’t know what to think or how to respond to it. The first part of this five part article will share some findings that many don’t know about, they [...]

BE PROACTIVE As a youth football coach, the first thing that we need to do is to do no harm. The second thing is to coach up our players so they don’t beat themselves. I heard a story this week about a heartbreaking loss that could have easily been avoided with some good proactive coaching. [...]

The Winning Youth Fooball- Youth Football Coaching Awards Thank you again for investing your free time into coaching youth football. In many ways it is a thankless job, we want to thank you, acknowledge you, and reward you for all you go. Every year we recognize a group of coaches who have excelled on and [...]

Becoming an Elite Team Youth football coaches can learn a lot from teams and programs that dominate other sports. This years State Basketball Tournament in Nebraska offered a few prime lessons for me and I’m not even a basketball fan. Omaha Central won the state championship in the states largest class for the 7th time [...]

Offensive Line DVD, Defensive DVD, Book In an effort to help the coaches using our DVDs to be more effective coaches, we’ve added text addendums chocked full of diagrams, pictures and detailed explanations of how and why we do what we do. This also has allowed us to add some of the new things we [...]

2011 Coach of the Year Dan Schlager- Jupiter Mustangs, Jupiter Florida Midgets- age 12-14 Treasure Coast Pop Warner League Champions Southeast Pop Warner Region Champions Pop Warner National Champions   2011 Worst to First Coach of the Year Cleveland Spruill- Redskins, Woodridge, Virginia Age 11-12 League Champions Dale City Youth Football From 0-8 to League [...]

In some areas of the country youth football is almost year round. We have been getting some Spring Football results in from a number of coaches. Please don’t be bashful and share how you’ve done. We have over 500 worst to first testimonials on our web site, but you don’t have to go from worst [...]

Many youth football coaches are curious as to the popularity of American Football at the youth level in other parts of the world. While we do have customers in England, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Corsica, Canada, Mexico, Panama and American Samoa, the numbers are pretty low. First of all with the exception of Canada, [...]