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Parent Communication – Youth Football Coaching Clinic
This is the seventh post of a multi part Youth Football Coaching Clinic presentation that I developed for KYA Football in Keller, TX. In this post I will be discussing Parent Communication. Find Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6. This post is a video blog post with two…
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What’s in your Youth Football Coach’s Bag?
What’s in your youth football coach’s bag? Hopefully a mouthpiece or two. I carry two bags to my youth football practices; my backpack and a team equipment bag. In my backpack I keep a few necessary items close at hand like mouthpieces and paper & pens that I use to make notes when needed. I…
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Picking Youth Football Players at Try Outs
Last Saturday I was evaluating talent at the KYA grass drills / try outs for Sophomore ~ 9U youth football players for a team I will be helping this season. As usual the youth football talent in North Texas is very good, especially in Keller. I was very happy to see all the coaches, league…
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Game Play and Practice Play
I have been receiving a ton feedback about how many plays in a game is fair vs starters or Coach’s children playing most of the game. Here is my take on what’s fair from my viewpoint. First let me say, life is inherently unfair so our starting point is already unfair. Plus nothing in life…
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Coaching Youth Football
I love coaching youth football and other youth sports. It amazes me the spectrum of coaches. I guess I should not be surprised since the majority of us are parent volunteers. And some of the unlucky few, defaulted into the coaching spot because the assigned coach got busy with work or resigned for some other reason. …
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Football Principles and Play – Books
I recently bought four out of print football books: 1) Radar Blocking by Leo Hand published in 1985 2) Football Principles and Play by David M Nelson published in 1962 3) Sports Illustrated Book of Football published in 1960 4) Defensive Football by Louis R. Oshins published in 1949 The latter book by Oshins is…
