Youth Coaching Football and other Sports Blog Posts by Coach Parker.
This is the age old argument; Talent vs Coaching. I just read USA Football’s article In high school football, does good coaching trump talent? by Stephen Spiewak which got me thinking about talented players in pee wee youth football ages 6 to 12. How much does talented skills players mean to a youth football team? Well, a ton. …
When the tackle wheels / tackle rings came out I knew I had to have one. But they were about double / triple what I wanted to pay for one, especially since I am just a youth football coach. My wife is already on me for buying just about everything else, although equipment under $100…
This is one of the craziest youth football plays I have seen in my 20 plus years coaching youth football / sports. Watch closely as the Tigers’ Center snaps the football over his head hitting an opposing player on the helmet and then bouncing back into the hands of the not so surprised Tigers’ running…
A friend of mine called me last night. He said his 12U team is not tackling low. They are tackling pretty good but some are having trouble breaking down and staying low to make tackles. We talked about not all tackles will be low since they might be open field pursuit tackles when a player…
I am starting an in-season journal for the KYA Football Spring 2018 youth football season. This is a continuation / expansion of my autopsy review of last season. Hopefully by writing this in-season journal along with some of my notes, practice plans and games plans, I can better reflect on this season when its over…
I’ve been writing a Spread Offense book over the last several months, The Wildcat Multi Spread Offense; A Youth Football Running Spread Playbook. During my research I keep thinking about how to attack the outside and Spread the Defenses, since the Sweep and Sweep Option Pass are the main plays in the original TCU Spread…
I guess I was a little bored today and started looking at linebacker position names like Mike, Sam and Will. We’ve all heard of these names for LBs but I decided to dig a little deeper and see what other names have been used over the last 100 years of football. I made up a…
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