Writing Your Coaching Philosophy
A step-by-step method for writing a one-page coaching philosophy that you can use in interviews, with players and parents, and in the hard decisions that test what you believe.
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Managing Parents and Boosters
How coaches set expectations with parents and booster clubs before problems start, run hard conversations about playing time, keep boundaries clear and stay inside association rules.
Building a Team Culture: Leadership and Accountability
What team culture really is, how to set standards players can see, how to grow player leaders, and how to hold everyone to the same rules, including hazing and the star player problem.
Scouting Opponents
How coaches scout an opponent from film and box scores: what to chart, how to avoid small-sample traps, what goes in a report, and how a small staff can do the job in a few hours.
Play-Calling Sheets and Wristbands
What goes on a coach's call sheet and a quarterback's wristband, how both are organized by situation, how to build them, and the mistakes that make them useless in the heat of a game.
Game Day Communication: Signals, Headsets and Sideline Systems
How a play gets from a coach's head to the field: headsets, helmet radios, hand signals, sideline boards, runners and the rules that limit each one by level.
Position Coach, Coordinator and Head Coach: How the Jobs Differ
What a position coach, a coordinator and a head coach actually do all day, how the roles change between youth, high school, college and the NFL, and what changes when someone is promoted.
Coaching Special Teams
A practical guide to coaching the kicking game: six units, how to split practice time, teaching coverage lanes and protection, choosing personnel and keeping players safe.
Coaching Linebackers
How to teach linebackers the job in the right order: stance, keys, gap fits, taking on blocks, tackling, drops, blitz timing and the communication that holds a defense together.
Coaching Defensive Backs
A guide to coaching cornerbacks and safeties, covering stance, backpedal, hips, breaks, press and off coverage, eyes and keys, ball skills, tackling in space and the mental side of the position.
Coaching the Offensive Line
How coaches build an offensive line, from stance, footwork and hand placement to blocking rules, communication and the habit of five players moving as one unit.
Coaching Quarterbacks
A practical look at how coaches develop quarterbacks, from grip and footwork to reads, leadership and arm care, with a sample individual period and the mistakes to avoid at every level.