Part and parcel to the Mission Statement we talked about in Part 1, we now need to create the objectives for our football team. What are your objectives? • Build a foundation year so you can compete next year and the year after that? • Draft a quick left guard? • Draft a tall TE…
Coaches, We have all had the struggle of fitting in our minimum play players. It’s a real balancing act between getting in all your minimum players and being competitive on the football field. It is not as big of a deal when you have a smaller roster but when you have a large number of…
Coaching youth football or any other youth sport is hard. It takes a great deal of your time and effort to coach a team. I have found through my last nine years of involvement with youth football, basketball, and soccer, running a team, can be approached like running a business. After running various businesses around…
With the season now upon us, coaches everywhere are trying to figure out how to get all the minimum play players in. In my teams case we have 27 players and the minimum play rule requires 8 plays per game. We have created a spreadsheet to help you make sense of this daunting task. The…
Volunteering to be a youth football Head Coach may be the hardest and most frustrating thing I have ever done…….as well as being the most rewarding decision I have ever made. I started coaching 11 years ago because I was tired of being on the other side of the fence watching my 6 year old…
In the Wedge Right (it’s a hybrid, but Wedge Right Hybrid is too long) my entire right side of the line (G,T,X,Z) is MPPs(Minimum Play Players). Key Points are: The right side maintains tight splits while the left side, who are my starters, maintain about 2.5’ splits (11 year olds). The Z is lined up…