This is Part 1 of my favorite best drills for evaluating youth football players for individual positions in American tackle football ages 6 to 12. I am sure many youth football coaches use other youth football drills, but these have served me well over 25 plus years as a tackle youth football coach. Evaluating Youth…
Choosing a Youth Football Quarterback with the winning traits to be your elite QB1 starter and finding backup is a tough decision each youth football coach makes every little league pee wee football season. Who should play QB on my team? It is a tough decision even for me after 25 plus tackle seasons to…
Youth Football Player Evaluations Finding Your Best 11 Starters and more players for your youth football team. A coach on youtube ask me about how I evaluate youth football players compared to others so I decided to pull all my info and piece it together to help answer the questions. The video below was posted…
This is the third 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 drafting talent for your youth football team. Find Part 1, Part 2. Update 7/24 – Video Draft the Best Youth Football Players It is very important to…
There are so many youth football parents concerned about their child’s football coaches favorites. I thought about this topic long and hard and came up with this article on how to become the Coach’s favorite in any sports not just youth football. Yes favoritism is alive and well in youth sports. and school… and business……
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…
Coaching vs Talent, which one wins in the end? Can great coaching in youth football outperform, defeat and or equal a well recruited stacked youth football team with mediocre coaching throughout an entire football season? A few top running back studs can sometimes dominate a youth recreation football league. Coaching vs Talent, which one do…
A reader posted a comment a few weeks back asking; “What’s the best way to devise an o-line depth chart for the offensive lineman positions? How do you decide who plays guard or tackle?” These are two great questions and there are many strategies to develop an offensive line. Let me offer my thoughts in…
So your youth football draft is approaching or maybe its over like mine is for Spring football. I wanted to highlight a few things that I learned from my last youth football draft. The main point I learned in this year’s recreational football draft is that actual tackle football experience should trump size and any…