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…
I know playing multiple sports during a single sports season is not going to be a popular topic, but I’ve had a few families including my own try to accomplish this impossible task. Team sports is all about the giving 110% to the team, not just yourself as an individual. There are many individual sports…
I am not trying to be funny with the title of this post. In today’s environment, a youth coach must pay as much attention to the players’ parents as much he does to the players on the field. Unlike my parents 30 years ago, today’s parents are much more involved in their children’s lives. And…
You must learn how to serve first to be a great leader. I’ve always heard that philosophy but I was not a true believer until this football season in Keller Tx just North of Ft Worth. I moved to Keller this past summer and was too late for a Head Coaching spot. The HC of…
The 2009 Keller, Texas Select youth football team that I was assisting for as Offensive Line Coach this season, lost its first playoff game a couple weeks back. I’ve been stewing about the loss and finally had the urge to talk about football today, because the team I coached in Arvada (Denver CO) won its…
Its football season again in Texas. The heat is melting my brain under my Dallas Coyboys Cap, the cow pastures they call practice fields are hard as concrete and my tan is better than it was in Colorado. Not that my tan has anything to do with youth football in Texas, but a lot of youth…
I’ve been getting a few emails lately about why certain players start or what is my stance on minimum play rules or we should not let our youth players play for Select / Draft teams because it limits their growth as a person. To be honest, I am old school on the issue of competition. …
Since my last favoritism post is the most read and the post I get the most email about, I thought I would try and answer some of the emails in this post. I agree that there is favoritism at all levels of youth sports. I also think that each coach has a different set of…
Its been awhile since my last post. In June, My wife accepted a job in Ft Worth TX as a Tax CPA, so we have been packing and moving from Denver to Ft Worth the last two months. We now live in Keller, Texas just north of Ft Worth, and my sons play football for…