Back in 2008 I developed a set of practice plans for youth football that I have been using for almost 15 years now. About 10 years ago I packaged the practice plans for youth football into an Adobe pdf ebook to give away for free to my Youth Football Coaching Tips, Plays and Playbooks blog…
This is part 3 of my Offensive Play Calling Strategy Series for youth football offenses. In part three I will discuss my opening drive play calling strategy that I use in my offense with my youth football teams. In Part Two, I wrote about scouting and attacking the defense’s weaknesses based on scouting report, like…
I am coaching the KYA Sr All Star team in their game on June 5, 2010 at 4pm. We had the All Star team try outs last Sunday and the young men looked great. They are mostly 6th graders going into 7th grade. I’ve never coached an All Star team before and what a pleasure…
Coaching youth football is tough and coaching quarterbacks is even tougher. Well, I should say choosing the right youth football player to play quarterback on your team might be your toughest decision after getting your Center nailed down. I’ve found over 30 seasons coaching youth football, that youth football coaches that play their son at…
We have a debate going on amongst my coaches and parents about what days to practice and the length of practice. I grew up playing football in Texas, so I am definitely an old school football coach with regards to discipline and respect but embrace many of the new proven training techniques. Our midget football…
I finally finished my Defensive playbook for my 5th grade pee wee football team. After reading and watching Dave Cisar’s Winning Football Series and Coach Reed’s Winning Youth Football book, I focused on the 6-2 Wide, 4-4 Stack and Gap 8 defensive schemes for my 2008 little league tackle team. I am not going to…
Several youth football coaches I spoke with recently do not allow their starting quarterback to play defense more than just a few plays a game, if that. I do not allow my QB to play defense but maybe a few plays in a game now and then. I also do not allow live hitting on…
In 2006 when I started coaching tackle youth football again, the leagues coaching coordinator was very big on kicking onside kicks. That was his thing. To be honest, onside kicking every kick did not work out for us. Sure we picked a few turnovers, but the majority of time we gave the other team 7…
I attended a Denver football clinic last year and the speaker, an ex college coach, brought up a very interesting point for youth football coaches. How many times do you see a perfect form tackle in a high school, college or pro football games? He proposed not very often, and you know what, I must…