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Planning a Rivalry Game
2007-09-15 16:45:00
Last night I went a local high school game. It just so happened that it was a rivalry game of epic proportions. These two teams have been rivals forever and to put fuel on the fire the Head Coach of team A use to be the Head Coach for team B just last year. ...
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The Secret to a Successful Running Game in Football
2007-09-12 19:26:00
Coming from a power running background from when I first played the sport, I felt that this was the best way to win a game. Well It is and isn’t. Early on I was put into various coaching roles that no one else wanted, one being Passing Coordinator. That experience was great seeing that I had ...
More About: Running , Football , Coaching , College Football , The Secret

Looking for an Underdog?
2007-09-07 19:45:00
As coaches we are always looking for an inspirational story or moment to motivate our teams to greatness. Well look no further then to last weekends University of Michigan and Appalachian St. football game. ASU was looked upon to be a nice “pre-season” opponent when they were penciled in a couple of years ago by the ...
More About: Coaching , College Football , Underdog , High school football , Pee Wee

Off the Field Support Wins Football Games
2007-09-05 19:37:00
For some of us week 1 or even 2 of the football season is in the books. I hope all is well with your squads and hope for nothing but future success. Something I wanted to talk about was relationship between the support that your football team gets off the field and the impact that ...
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Tendencies? How much is too much?
2007-09-04 19:12:00
So I wanted to touch on the subject of teams breaking down film and figuring out an oppenents tendencies. I am all for breaking down film and figuring out what is going to happen and even get to the point predicting what will happen in the football game, but where do you draw the line ...
More About: Coaching , College Football , High school football , Pee Wee

NFL Harvesting Homegrown Talent
2007-08-30 20:40:00
So I was noticing a common practice in todays NFL with drafting players from or have played their college ball in the same region as that NFL franchise. Most recently it was Brady Quinn who was drafted by the Browns which are very close to where he played college ball, Notre Dame and where he ...
More About: Coaching , Talent , Grow , Lent

Almost done?
2007-08-29 22:05:00
So overhauled the site and now working on getting that message board up and running…. So hopefully it will be up and running by the weekend.
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New things for the Site
2007-08-28 19:24:00
Well I am in the process of developing a forum for you guys to interact and network with each other rather then just listen to me babble on. I am for the forum, “Coaches Corner”, to be up very soon.
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What to do with Alumni in Your Program?
2007-08-27 19:39:00
Hey everyone, Well today I wanted to talk about the topic of alumni. Now you can view alumni in two ways: Creating Alumi Keeping and getting the most out of Alumni Creating an alumni base is probably the last thing on a head coaches to do list for the season. Most of the time the concept of creating an ...
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Most Underrated player on the Football Field
2007-08-24 17:11:00
Given from the title, today will be one of debate. I have been thinking of the this topic for awhile now and to me it goes to the heart of my coaching philosophies. First, a saying that I coach by is “You are only as strong as you weakest link”. Given that the most underated ...
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