This book could be very useful for new coaches, especially those who may be starting a new team or those who have very limited staff or even have been thrown into the coaching arena because the team has a limited, inexperienced, or no coaching staff. It can also be a reference guide for experienced coaches who might be interested in a different way to coach. One of our main goals is to TEACH youth coaches how to TEACH their players the fundamentals and how to PLAY FOOTBALL, not just try to replicate someone else's program.The purpose of this book is to present our program (all levels) over a 7 year timeframe in its entirety and show you a different type of a fully comprehensive program that you will not find in any other books for coaching youth football Grades 3-8. From 2007 thru 2013, our 7th/8th grade team compiled a record of 56-0 resulting in 7 consecutive undefeated league championships, as well as being undefeated in games with teams from surrounding leagues. This book is not like most other youth football coaching books which focus predominantly on skills, drills and playbooks and imply that you can simply install what they do typically at the high school level and you will be successful. Instead, it is designed to encompass all facets of youth football coaching expertise both on and off the field, and teach you how to build your program.
This book provides information on almost all aspects of our program including, but not limited to, program continuity, equipment, assembling and managing a coaching staff, coach/player interactions and issues, handling domestic issues, finding players, player evaluations, position responsibilities, player inclusivity, culture development, position and playing time management, dealing with parents (significant), dealing with parent coaches, player prototypes, coaching clinics, role models, practice structure and activities, teaching fundamentals, simplified offense (easy to install playbook) and defense terminology (ours), conditioning, handling injuries (significant), game day activities, dealing with day to day issues, paperwork/record keeping, team information content and distribution to parents/players, dealing with referees, total offense and defense structure (ours which can both be fully implemented as described), behavior issues (players, coaches, and parents), team parent activities and responsibilities, and tournament participation.
As emphasized extensively in the book, our methodology is all about how we TEACH plays, that resulted in us leading our league in every meaningful offensive category every year. As for our defense, we developed a full zone structure (each lineman, linebacker and secondary player has responsibility for their individual zone), that resulted in us leading our league in every meaningful defensive category every year.
