Program Development Archives:

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. [...]

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 [...]

What Are You Working on Right Now to Make Your Youth Football Team Better? Have you taken the time to look back on last years season to see where you need to make improvements? You know how the saying goes about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If you [...]

The youth football season is over for most of us, so now what? See what we do in my next newsletter. Many of us look to other sports to help players develop into better athletes, better football players and better teammates. With so many different sports to choose from these days, which make the most [...]

What can we as youth football coaches take away from the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal at Penn State University? While not all of the charges have been proven, the sheer number of accusations and the eyewitness accounts from several reliable sources seem to point to Mr Sandusky being a child predator. If you haven’t [...]

Many youth football teams struggle to compete because they just don’t have enough players. When you only have 14-16 kids per team and you have injuries it becomes tough to field teams. When you get down in numbers it also sometimes emboldens parents to make unreasonable demands or even not attend practice, because they know [...]

When is a youth football coach being over the top and when is someone simply being enthusiastic? When it comes to games and scrimmaging, where is the line in the sand? While there may be a fine line with some of this, there are a few simple guidelines: When people start paying attention and noticing [...]

One of the things that is interesting about coaching youth football is to study those that have consistent success and compare them to those who don’t. Hopefully by sharing that information with coaches, they can try to replicate what the successful coaches do and avoid what the unsuccessful coaches do. One of the less quantifiable [...]

Getting Your Self In Trouble by Selectively Recruiting Youth Football Players Recruiting youth football players is a necessity for many youth football programs. If you are starting a youth football program from scratch, you have to recruit kids to play. If you’re in a program on a downward spiral and your numbers are low, you [...]

Coaching Youth Football- Preparing Yourself Mentally For Next Years Season While the majority of the posts on this blog have to do with x’s and o’s and developing players and teams, that isn’t where many youth football coaches are going to fail next season. They are going to fail because they don’t have the proper [...]