Football Appetizers

Building a quality football program is like building a business or like building a house. Before constructing the home, you must have a solid foundation. When building your football program, your program’s foundation begins with the community. Great community support will help see your program through its ups and downs. […]

For all of you “newbies” to football, when watching a game, you may be thinking that just about anything goes. This is football, after all. However true, there are rules that need to be followed and when an offending player commits an infraction, his team must be penalized. In the […]

Lessons Learned From Other Sports Some lessons learned in coaching youth football have really helped me in coaching other sports I know very little about. In 2002 the Screaming Eagles Youth Football Program decided we would start a baseball program. The problem was I had not coached baseball before and […]

The purpose of this article is to discuss place kicking, teaching football kickers the art of kicking field goals. We will take you through the steps necessary to become a successful place kicker. The tips written here are for soccer style place kickers. 1. Positioning the ball: The place kicker […]

No football team has captured America’s attention in recent years quite like the Boise State Broncos. A school that was just a junior college until 1967, shocked the world when it upset the University of Oklahoma in an overtime win of 43-42 in the 2007 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. The game […]

Question: When putting decals on a Football Helmet Visor, how do you remove the black decals that come on the visor? Answer: If the sticker or decal that is on the visor is an easy peel vinyl, it should remove easily, but if it’s a standard adhesive, it can be […]

The 3-4 defense has been used with great success, especially with the Steelers in the NFL. I have used the 3-4 with 5 year-old flag players and 14 year-old travel tackle players as long as it has been modified for the level you are coaching. Looking like the 5-4 defense, […]

The more years you coach, you start to recognize certain things remain the same. For myself, it is an introductory offensive line blocking system, known as Wall Blocking. There are some “gurus” who insist they are the founders (which is astonishing since I was implementing it BEFORE they began coaching), […]

Speed is king in all sports, but especially in Pop Warner football. If you have a player that cannot be caught, you will have a great season without having to do much coaching. If you are facing a team with great speed then you need a game plan. How your […]

There are many odd traditions in college football and the sort of things that make casual fans scratch their heads in bewilderment are in many instances the exact same things that make extremely zealous fanatical fans love their favorite past time even more. One of the more odd traditions in […]