Youth Football Coaching Tips Archives:

When Your First Youth Football Game Goes Poorly Many youth football coaches panic when their first game goes poorly. Some panic and make massive changes in scheme and personnel, while some add in lots of plays and stunts and still others stick their head in the sand and do nothing. Maybe none of those options [...]

Co- Head Coaching in Youth Football In a handful for youth football programs instead of having a Head Coach, the organization head assigns co- head coaches. While it can work, in most cases it is going to be a disaster. Assigning co-head coaches is usually the result of the commissioner not being able to make [...]

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 [...]

So many youth football coaches try to reinvent the wheel and end up having disastrous seasons, we see it every year in every youth football league out there. A recent personal experience makes me believe maybe this is just part of human nature. Stay with me on this story, there is a valuable youth football [...]

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 [...]

The “Compete” Drill for Youth Football One of the many things youth football coaches have a problem with is having their team ready to play on game day. Many coaches tell me they see their kids coming to games lethargic and not ready to play. I’ve even seen some of my own teams in very [...]

I’ve heard the saying “There are many ways to skin a cat” a few times and I tend to agree with it when in context. True, there are many ways to skin cats, but what do the skins look like when they are finished, are they of equal quality? Did each method require the same resources and [...]

  Youth Football Coaching Lessons Learned From Coaching Girls Sports? Many of you youth football coaches out there have daughters playing sports, we do too. Like many of you I’ve coached these sports almost against my own will, I just can’t get very excited about that communist plot designed to take over the world also [...]

    Landscaping and Coaching Youth Football- Are They Really That Different? I’ve been doing a bunch of landscaping projects recently at our home. I’m certainly no expert at doing any of this, but over time the projects have steadily improved.  If you are like me, once you’ve actually completed one of these countless projects, [...]

    Top Ten Things Youth Football Coaches Do to Mess Up Their Teams Back in the day, I used to drive a lot for business. I would often have to do a number of drives where I got up at 3:00 or 4:00 am, do a number of meetings and in order to maximize [...]