Teaching Defense to Football Coaches who want to Dominate on the Field
This is the first post in a series of 10 Steps to Creating a Tougher Defense. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll look at all sorts of ways that you can make your kids think, act, feel, and be tougher.
Step 1: Conditioning Your Defense for Toughness
Step 2: Building Toughness in the Weight RoomStep 3: Equipping your Defense to Play Tough [Read more...]
We’re all in coaching for a number of reasons. We are passionate about the game. We love working with young men and developing them. And we are normally intensely competitive. And the facts is, despite our passion for the game and our desire to help our players build character, if we don’t win it won’t matter. We won’t be doing it for long.But what is the real cost of winning, and is it right to pay that price? What should we as coaches expect to pay to win? And what should our players, parents, administration, student body and community expect to contribute to be associated with a winner? [Read more...]
What is our responsibility with young athletes and coaching character? It is a question that I think all of us have to consider. Some coaches would rather view themselves as a “Teacher of Men” than as a “Winner.” Other coaches view teaching your players to be winners as being a coach of character. Where is the line?Coaching Character [Read more...]
Just wanted to give an update on some things. I’m taking a break from the 3-4 Defense and writing a post on organizing your coaching office. It has always baffled me how messy we can be in our offices, yet demand such rigid attention to detail from our players. Anyway, in the mean time, I wanted to bring up some good reading I’ve gotten in to. The book is The Genius: How Bill Walsh Reinvented Football and Created an NFL Dynasty
Well I’ve got a lot going on, and at the same time not much. I’ve left Iowa and headed back to Richmond. Currently looking for work – I’m hoping to get a high school head job, but if that doesn’t happen I’ll be happy just to have a job teaching and coaching high school here. Lots of things led to the decision, not the least of which was money, distance, and the prospect of moving constantly. If anyone out there reading this is in the Richmond area and might have an opening for a coach on your staff and History teacher, I’m not too proud to beg!Anyway, along with that is some good news. I do have a real world job that will start in February, to get me through til August or so at least. In the mean time, I have a lot of notes from the recent AFCA Convention that I’ll be typing up. Gary Patterson was great, Lou Holtz mesmerizing. Mack Brown was hilarious, and the worst decision made was to put Mike Singletary at the end of a four hour session. Good speaker, but not really energizing. [Read more...]
