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July 26, 2021

How Alabama Football Saw a 50% Decrease in Injuries

Alabama football is used to being the best. They are regular guests of the NCAA College Football Playoff, flirting as the top-ranked team year in and year out. The Tide gets its pick of five-star high school recruits. And with all that success comes ...


equipment
June 16, 2021

Top Equipment To Protect Your Players

Ask around your local football fields what a head coach wants out of their players and the answer will typically resemble the same idea: to get the most out of them. In order to do that, players have to remain upright and healthy. As New England Patr...


playoff
June 11, 2021

12-Team CFP Proposed for NCAA Football

A sub-group of the College Football Playoff's (CFP) management committee this week presented a proposal to change the current four-team format to a 12-team event. The proposal was made to the full CFP management committee and is the first step in ...


massachusetts
June 2, 2021

Massachusetts to Hold NFL-Style HS Football Combine

An NFL-style training combine is coming back to the Bay State this month. The Massachusetts High School Football Coaches Association has partnered with HardKore Athletic Performance of Rockland to stage its annual Athletic Combine at Xaverian Brothe...


harassed
May 25, 2021

San Diego HS Football Team Sanctioned for Racist Social Media Posts

A San Diego Catholic high school football team has been sanctioned after players posted racially charged photos aimed at a mostly-Latino rival high school. According to a report from the San Diego Union-Tribune, the San Diego City Conference place...


May 21, 2021

Former Gophers Football Employee Raises Coaching Concerns

A former University of Minnesota Golden Gophers staffer has spoken out against current head coach P.J. Fleck and garnered the attention of the National College Players Association (NCPA). The whistleblower, described by WCCO CBS-Minnesota as a for...


May 12, 2021

10 Observations of a Successful Coach

What makes a successful coach? While the answers may differ depending on who you ask, they will all undoubtedly agree there is no single way to be successful. Through my years of working within athletics, I have made many observations about what i...


q-collar
May 11, 2021

Q-Collar Corrals Next Step in Concussion Safety Tech

With all of the increased attention paid to concussions in all sports — particularly at the high school level — and the rate of concussions during gameplay continues to rise.  That’s, at least, according to a November 2019 study published i...