coaching football
November 4, 2010
Maximizing Practice Time for the Wing-T Offensive Line
Offensive line coaches can borrow a phrase from high school English teachers as a guiding principle in the use of alliteration: Prior Preparation and Planning Prevents Poor Performance Pain.If the coachs goal is to maximize practice time, incre...
September 8, 2010
Defending The Trips Formation
We defensive coaches would be foolish to think the number of teams running the spread offense in high school is going to decline anytime soon.The top-tier teams in our conference all run versions of the spread offense. We utilize the 33 Stack defense...
July 13, 2010
Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz shares WR blocking drills
Players in Kirk Ferentz’s Iowa football program need to be multi-dimensional. To add to his wide receivers’ (WR) skill base, Ferentz uses the following seven blocking drills. DIAGRAM 1: Stalk vs. DB. The defensive back makes three moves fr...
June 22, 2010
The role of summer camps in recruiting
The recruitment process in Division I intercollegiate athletics is filled with rules, regulations and can completely take over a coach’s life. Further, it is vital that coaches become proficient in the recruitment process to gain the best athletes....
June 16, 2010
Football: Dynamic drills to improve your team’s tackling
In the last few years, we have incorporated these tackling-technique drills into our practices twice a week, every week. These drills stress the fundamentals of tackling, which help develop better tacklers and, ultimately, gives your defenders confid...
June 15, 2010
Shared Facility Funding: Field Of Broken Promises
In September 2006, an artificial turf field was unveiled to a packed house under the Friday night lights at Wisconsin’s Brookfield Central High School (BCHS). In addition to a state-of-the-art field for football, soccer, track and the band, t...
June 3, 2010
Utilizing the Pistol-Flex Quadruple Option
The Pistol Flex is an offensive philosophy and formation that is a hybrid of two very popular college offensive strategies: the flexbone and the pistol. The base formation is called “Pistol-Flex Tight.” In this formation, the two tight ends ar...
May 19, 2010
Putting your spread offense in the hands of receivers
At my previous job at Mendocino College (Calif.), we ran a spread offense that relied heavily on the production of our receivers. This is an article I wrote during that time... Over the past three seasons, we have had eight receivers make all-conf...
More than half — 54.6 percent — of the schools surveyed said they would be interested in offering esports to students if the FHSAA sanctioned the games.
FHSAA considers adding esports to athletic offerings
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The FHSAA is considering adding esports to its athletic offerings afte...