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More Stats for NOT Running the High School Offense in Youth Football:

Here are a few stats for you youth football coaches feeling the pressure to run the local High School offense:

Let’s say you have a team size of 25 kids. National studies from Michigan State University and the National Youth Sports Alliance say less than 30% of your players will play High School football. So now, out of 25 kids you have 7 players that according to the studies go on to play High School ball. Of those 7, not all will play at the local Public High School, they may move, play for a different local High School, or they may play for a Private School, let’s say you lose 1 player there. Of the 6 remaining, after they go through puberty some will grow and others won’t. That skinny wingback that fills out to a slow 250 pounds is no longer a wingback in High School, kids change. The big hulking center you have doesn't gain a pound and ends up playing fullback. At least half of your players will play a position different than what they did in Youth Ball.

With the weight rules in place for most leagues that restrict large players to the interior line positions, your big players are usually not allowed to touch the ball. So forget about the big players getting any training at receiver, tight end or running back, positions they may very well play in High School. In 2006 two of my former Omaha players, offensive guards James D and Ronnie C both played fullback for Omaha North High varsity as freshmen.Ronnie even ran for a TD in one big game. North has over 2500 students, made it to the state semi-finals, had two DI scholarship players and a parade all-american (Niles Paul) on their team. Neither of these former offensive guards ever got to touch the football for my teams, as both were over the running back weight limits. Neither had played in the backfield or ran this schools offense, yet they did very well at their new positions in a brand new offense. I doubt Omaha Norths head coach cared one iota that these kids had never run his offense. He gets paid to coach football and train football players, not sit back and call football plays from a tower with kids that are already trained for him by a bunch of youth coach volunteers.

So now we are at 3 kids of the 25 that would be playing High School ball and playing the very same position on the High School team as they did at the Youth Football level. If you decided to make the choice for the High School offense for the benefit of just 3 players at the expense of the 22 others on your team, it would not benefit anywhere near the majority of your players.

Add in the slim chances that your 8 year old youth football player will be playing High School ball 10 years down the road and that the High School will even have the same head coach or be running the same offense 10 years into the future. It seems darn right ridiculous to even consider trying to run the same system as the local High School, the odds are very long it would help even a tiny fraction of your youth football players.

The numbers just don’t add up to make a decision to run an offense that in most cases will have little success for your team and in the end will most likely result in fewer players deciding to go on to play High School ball. Because as you will read in subsequent posts, most youth football players quit playing because of poor coaching, their teams are not competitive and they aren’t having fun, all are symptoms of running a system that doesn’t work at the Youth Level.

While the Single Wing Offense has proven itself at the Youth Level all across the country, it is also seeing a rebirth of sorts at the High School and even College levels. Last year 3 Single Wing teams played for State High School Titles in Virginia alone, with 2 teams winning, Giles and Osborne. Menominee High School a perennial Single Wing powerhouse in Michigan won its second State Title in 7 years and blew out the Defending State Champions in the largest class in Minnesota as well. Colton High in California finished in the USA Today Top 20 running the Single Wing Offense. Those are just a few teams I know of off the top of my head that are having success running the Single Wing in High School.

If you watched Urban "The Mad Scientist" Meyers Florida team last year, you would have seen lots of Single Wing football, especially when they went into their “Tebow” formation. Other College teams running lots of Single Wing included West Virginia, Arkansas and Utah to name just a few. My guess is we will see more of it everywhere this coming season.

For those of you that get static for running what you run:

There are many high schools that run the Wing T, Flexbone, Wishbone, Straight T, Veer and Double Wing Offenses and virtually no Colleges at the Division I level or Pro teams run these offenses. Are the thousands of High Schools that run these offenses doing something wrong? How about De LaSalle and its 170 game win streak running the Veer or Bellevue Washingtons National Championship team running the Wing T? Shouldn't they be running what the College and Pro teams are running? No, they dont have the players needed to run those Pro and College offenses and neither do you.

Don't let that weak High School coach sell you on the snake oil that the most important football coach in his program is the youth or Junior High coach, what silliness. The most important coach in the High School system is the High School Head Coach, only responsibility shirking weaklings would put it off on someone other than themselves. This isn't the language I hear at the clinics from the top High School coaches in the nation, they rightfully think they are the coach that has the most to do with their teams success or failure. They wouldn't dream of trying to blame someone else for their failure or success.

Did Lou Holtz blame poor High School coaches for his last South Carolina teams failure to reach a bowl game? How about Bill Parcells, should he be blaming the college coaches for his Dallas Cowboys not making the Super Bowl? It never happenned, it would be silly, but I hear it from a handfull of perrennial losing High School coaches from accross the country on football coaching forums. Great coaches aren't excuse makers, they take and teach responsibility, it's the right thing to do. Don't teach your players by your excuse making example to be excuse making dog ate the homework kids.

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How to profit from older lighter rules as youth football coaching

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On its face the older lighter rule makes a lot of sense, if a player is very small and may struggle with playing in his own age group, let him play "down" an age group so he has a chance to play and compete. In my mind if you have a very small first year 11 year old player that weighed 70 pounds, this rule would allow him to plqay with 9 and 10 year olds and give the plyer the chance to learn the game and get meaningful playing time in an effort to build a love for the game in him. In this particular case, the rule would have met its goal.

Age is a very important factor in youth football. The league commissioner for Omaha's Heartland Youth Football League did an in-depth study of the ages of the teams in our league in 2001. He found there were very significant correlations of average age of teams to wins and losses. He broke the study down to the average number of months the age of each team was and invariably the oldest team in each classification finished in the top 3 in the standings and the youngest team in each classification finished in the bottom 3.

In my first year of coaching youth football, I coached in an age 8-10 "draft" league where the coaches are given only the birthdate and weight of the player to make the draft selection. We were not given the players name etc, basically a blind draft with the exception of the age and weight data. This league had an older-but-lighter rule. As our turn in the draft came around we just selected the largest players available, while the team next to us the "Dolphins" chose lots of 11 year old "older-but-lighter" players that were quite small, as well as medium to smaller 10 and 9 year olds. Our roster was filled with bigger 8s and 9s and a few 10s. As it turned out, the Dolphins were the perennial bullies of the league and had won an incredible number of back to back league titles. They knew what they were doing and that age was far more important than size. They went on to win the league title again that year. That season, we had just one older-but-lighter player and he turned out to be our star player, our tailback and star linebacker.

In many youth football leagues there is an age cutoff, in many leagues it is August 1st. So whatever age the player is on August 1st is what the league uses to determine age for that football season. If a player "Joey" is age 10 on August 1st and on August 2nd he turns 11, according to the league the player is 10 years old for that entire season. So if the age grouping is age 8-10 and an 8 year old player just turned 8 on July 31st, this 8 year old would be playing against a player "Joey", that is 4 years older than him. Age is important, but so is the date of the birthdate. In 2003 I had an "Unlimited" age 8-10 team that had 4 players that turned 11 in August. Needless to say, that was a huge advantage for us.

Now just imagine if you had a lighter 11 year old that had a birthdate of August 3rd, now you have a 12 year old playing 8 year olds. That would be darn right dangerous for some 8 year olds if that 12 year old player had 4 years of football plays under his belt.

My personal teams play in unlimited leagues with "running back" weights. The big kids are required to play between the tackles and are not allowed to carry or catch the football. We have always found it is not the big heavy linemen that are dominating games and making big hits, it is that medium sized or even smaller kid who has speed, aggressiveness and acceleration through contact. While the big linemen may seem a bit imposing at first glance, once the game is under way the players that are feared most are the big hitters, which are rarely if ever the big kids. Hence it could be that aggressive smaller older-but-lighter player that could be the terror of your league, not that "Fat Freddie" big linemen.

What often happens in the youth football leagues that have "older-but-lighter" rules is the rule gets abused. Instead of using the rule as it was intended for, to aid the development of truly smaller and weaker players, teams load their teams up with perfectly well adjusted and experienced smaller players. Some teams even make these already skinny lighter players LOSE weight to make sure they meet the weight guidelines, if the player is close to the weight limit.

I have had youth football coaches e-mail me to say they play teams of 24 kids where 17 are older-but-lighter. If you closely examine the ages of many of the top Pop Warner teams that play on TV for National Titles, quite often you find teams stacked full of very tall and skinny older-but-lighter players.

I'm not sure how to solve the "stacking" of older-but-lighter kids on teams to create competitive advantages. I really like the idea of significantly smaller first year players playing down an age group to give them a chance to develop. However, if the weight differentials are not large enough or already small players are being pressured into losing weight to meet older-but-lighter requirements, I'm not sure we are meeting the intent of the rule.

In our Omaha Youth Football league with August 1st cutoff dates, we often had 8th graders with August or September birthdates that were playing on the 11-12 year old team. The problem was many of their 8th grade buddies were playing on the 13-14 age team. While it would have given us a significant advantage to keep the player on the younger team, if the players were mature enough we would play them up with their friends. We felt doing what was right for that player superseded our need for a competitive advantage; I would hope others would do the same when it comes to making older but lighter decisions.

When I coached in youth football leagues that had older-but-lighter rules, if we had kids what were close to the weight cutoff and they had experience, we just played them up and it worked out fine. If we had a rookie kid that was weaker and close to the cutoff, we never ran him extra or starved him. We just explained the situation to the parents and if they concurred, we asked them to curb the intake of desserts, junk food and sodas. If the player made the weight great, if he didn't make the weight no big deal, we never counted on the player making weight. We did not weigh the player every day or put any pressure on the player to lose the weight. We did not take him to any sauna, starve him or the like, like some do.

If you are in a "draft" league, heavily weight age and experience when making your selections. Keep in mind not only the players age, but his birthdate, it will be to your advantage. Coaching Youth Football well is more than just calling good football plays and having great football schemes, and football practices, it also often involves smart selection or drafting of players. Make sure you are thorough and use age to your advantage within ethical boundaries.

If you have an older-but-lighter player that is close to the cutoff and you are considering having him lose weight, think carefully about how this will look 10-20 years from now. Was it really worth it to the player or team? Personally I prefer beating teams with younger and less talented kids, it's more of a challenge and far more satisfying than doing it with a "stacked" team of scarecrows.

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How to solve problems with minimal Play in youth football

Youth football is a different game

X's and schema are huge in the development of a dominant team youth football, but the nuances of the game require that most of us are good at many things to do the most football coach at the top level, you do not need to deal with. Unless you are a "select" team coaching or 50-60 children on your team, the typical youth football coaches develop some unathletic children in competent starters and competent back-ups.

By default, your youth football team

The typical youth football team consists of 22-27 children.As for the discussion you have 24, the typical team have 4-5 children from that group that really "players", athletic enough or tough enough children who both ways on their own. now that you have 19 children, that will have you 12 starting points on the left side of the offense and defense. Of the remaining 19 you'll usually 3-4 children that are smart enough that by technique and alignment/command mastery begins to express an opinion, but not about some of the physical characteristics which are necessary in order to play the position as well. Of the remaining 15, most teams have 5-6 children who are "average" meaning which they possess enough average athletic and mental ability that they are on the one side of the ball will start.

Now do you have 9 minimum play "children", which is usually well below the average size and athleticism, often first year children who are Often very lost., 4 the remaining nine are often the children who are completely out of their element. Often these children who have been first year children football "try" which are often play only a year and a very weak physically, mentally, or both. Sometimes these kids are playing just to a parent.

You Have no choice but to develop "Minimum play" players in the youth football

You are going to have to a starter or two of that group pf "minimum play" children, as well as some competent back ups. many young people, including Pop Warner Football Leagues have minimum rules of the game, where you have to play everyone a preset number of plays. even for those of us who have no minimum rules, many of us play a standard minimum to ensure that all children receive at least some time playing as she practices on a regular basis. When faced with this challenge, the youth team coach prepared, "are often interested in the development of the weaker players and can. I look forward to it and embrace it as a challenge and a chance to help someone an appreciation and love for the game and helping someone who in many cases would not get a great deal of attention elsewhere. On a selfish Note If you play of minimum requirements, the development of these players are the difference in your teams win or lose.Often in competitions such as Pop Warner where minimum rules are strictly applied, how well you perform at least talented players vis-à-vis the other teams least talented players with a strategy in itself.

Simple tips for development

As the third children such as this, is the starting point for a control on offense and defense that are suitable for them. What do we mean here is that the schema is friendly player in positions. these positions do not have a huge amount of skill, size, or athletic, but still add value to every module.An old way to do this is to split of the worst player from 20 metres, forcing the defense on him and essentially 10 versus 10 foot ball games.The problem with that is a descent defensive coordinator are going to write and track your minimum children and if they play like that splits, the defense is either going to ignore him or at least split the difference and relate to him with "1/2" a man. Thus begins seeking to defend in a schema violation ½ of surpassing the 10 to 10. split know That poor guy that he is no real reason to completely different in its necessary documents, who have no real value for the snap-in, and a main problem in waiting. I doubt that he develops no skills or a love for the game. If you are really weak children from 4-5 and you try and get it all in on the position "leper" may be difficult to get them all their play.

Systematic answers

My system allows for playing a few kids weaker both attack and defense.The difference is the alignment, the basic skills and techniques for those positions can even the weakest player, but it is different from in the above example, they offer legitimate aggregate value on each module.In contrast to the above example, theses children area is the development of football skills and feel as if they were part of the team. My system makes it possible through the plan and by very easy to learn of technique to those children.

Players are responsible to keep

I will be going much deeper on the development of the weakest players in legitimate sponsoring members of your team in the next issue of my free newsletter.

One of the most important factors in my advice is to try and stay to be as positive as possible with these children, in advance that it is likely that you will be frustrated about realizing.Although we certainly responsible these children at the same level of perfection as any other alignment, attitude, first step, effort, and is a great teammate, we take a look at the slightest positives to encourage these children with.Something as small as first congratulate him on the back of a break from water or even that his feet right in his position can be something that slowly but surely this player gives the confidence to play more aggressive or closer attention.

Language solutions

Some words that you can use one of these players as an error: I know you can do better than that, I expect better than that of a player if you or we both know that you can do this., of course, if you would like to draw your attention to the specific thing which the player for the first time, did wrong point out something positive that he did and then successfully run of the task that he made the mistake. when we see something positive we want to go with: that's what we need to see you, this team should you have to pay the way each time, or we know that you can do it like this every time.

Youth football coaching is x and o 's, but it has more about getting the player to believe in the schema, techniques, and at a different level of football.

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Youth football-your last week for the doctor-preparing to win and have fun

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Many youth football teams are wrapping things up at this time of year. Most of us are in either playoff runs or at least want to make the last game a competitive one. When coaching youth football you always want your team to progress each week, which means your last game of the season should be your teams best. At the same time you want the last week of practice to be special. We all want to top off the season with some fun and hopefully wet the appetite in each of the players to come back and play the following season. How do we accomplish both goals, have fun and yet be prepared for that last big game?

At this time of year we are down to two football practices per week. Many youth football coaches either don't do anything fun that last week or they turn that last practice into some kind of circus. I'm all for making it fun for the kids, but by making the last practice all fun and games you often plant the seed in your players minds that the season is already over.

We like to do our "fun" practice on that first practice of the week. During that first 30 minutes we may do things like play Hawaiian Rules football or do a live scrimmage with running backs playing on the line and linemen playing running back. We often just do things that the kids on that specific team have taken to heart, like deer hunter or the towel game. This year our first practice of the last week got rained out, so we were in the gym, We played Dodge Ball and Capture the Flag for the first 30 minutes of practice, the kids had a blast.

During team we talked about our goals for the week and our goals for the individual members of our team. The players know that the end result won't be known for 20+ years. Hopefully by then the seeds we had planted during this season will have sprouted and matured. We let them know these are seeds of persistence, hard work, teamwork, sacrifice, accepting criticism, accepting guidance, humility, compassion, respect and reliability that will help each player be better sons, husbands, fathers and providers, While youth football isn't a cure all for all of societies ills, for many kids it is a very important part of their development. As an employer, I can always tell if a person has played competitive sports or not. The competitive sports player is often innately more competitive, they accept coaching better, they work harder, get flustered less and overcome obstacles better than their video game playing counterparts.

While that first day of the week practice may be a bit fun and reflective, we get back into "football mode" the last half of that practice. If the parents want to do something special, this is the practice they do it at. Later in the week at that very last practice we get back down to "business". In addition to our regularly scheduled individual development periods, we would be repping on-air team offense, team defense and special teams. At this point in the season you will see many youth football teams pulling out all the stops. This means you need to spend some time on aligning and alerting your team about special formations like the Swinging Gate/Lonesome Polecat or severely unbalanced sets. We also see things like wall kick returns, starburst kick returns or throwback kick returns at this time of year. Another thing we often see in this last game are "trick" plays like QB throwbacks or even illegal plays like the "wrong ball" play,

One way to prepare your youth football team for these situations is to set up your defense or special teams against a "scout" team of your coaches and remaining players. Align everyone up in positions and have everyone take a knee. Discuss the play and walk your scout team through the play as the defense observes. Then jog your scout team through each of the trick football plays you need to prepare against. Once you have demonstrated 4-5 of these football plays to your defense, go back and huddle up and run the plays live or to thud (not taking the ballcarrier to the ground). We always have the coaches at the skill positions here to give quality reps to the defense in a short amount of time.

While you may never see any of these "trick" plays or formations, it is something new for the kids. Quite often football practice is getting a little stale at this time of the year for youth football kids, it's natural. Doing things like this keeps the kids attention and gives them a new and interesting approach to learn. It can also be a difference maker come game time.

We may even have a few trick football plays of your own up our sleeve at this time of the year. But we do it primarily for the novelty of it rather than depending on the play to score. We do it to keep the kids interested and may not run the play at all or run it as an extra point play, only to be used when comfortably ahead.

Nothing is more disheartening to a youth football team than having their super secret trick play that they KNOW is going to go for a touchdown, stuffed for no gain or a big loss. What the other team is counting on when they run something like this is a lack of preparation on your part. They expect panic, poor alignment, confusion and of course success. This happened in the last game of the season for my age 10-11 team. The opponent tried the illegal "wrong ball" play. For more info on that play and even a video clip, do a word search on "wrong ball" on this blog and see it being run.

The week prior to our last game we had instructed our team on the "wrong ball" play, We had discussed it, demonstrated it and even run it against our defense. Our defense knew that no matter what the players or coaches of the other team were yelling out, that if anyone picked up the ball after being set to play, the ball was live and the person with the ball needed to be tackled.

Well the score was 14-14 in a very evenly matched youth football game, as both teams were 7-1 coming into the game. The other team had the ball, driving for what appeared to be the go ahead score. After the ball had placed down and the whistle had sounded for the ready to play, one of the players for the other team threw up his hands and started acting confused and was jogging to the sidelines, the coaches for this team in the meanwhile were telling him to come off, get off the field. In the meantime the ball was snapped to one of the remaining backs while the linemen stayed frozen in their tracks. Well, our kids weren't fooled, we had practiced this very same play in our last football practice of the season. Our most aggressive linebacker crushed the ball carrier in his tracks, he fumbled and we recovered. The shock of having that play stuffed completely really caught this team off guard. We scored in 3 plays, onside kicked and scored again right before the half to take what was a very close game and put it out of reach. Our kids gained so much confidence from stopping that one play, The kids knew they had been prepared well and seemed to just take over the game after that play. We also intercepted a QB throwback pass in this game that was run back to the 3 yard line, just like in practice. We went on to win 46-26.

The moral of the story: don't waste your valuable time practicing against every conceivable threat before your first game, But for your last game or two spend a reasonable amount of time teaching your players how to respond to some of the more "common" trick plays. It may help you in that big game and at the least kids love seeing trick plays and learning something new. Make that last week of practice special, but make sure to get the kids back into "game" mode during that last practice.

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Tips for youth football pass quarterbacks

Each player in the youth football, no matter what their normal position, must learn to throw a spiral with accuracy. It is an essential part of the game and you never know when an opportunity a spectacular passing game along. For the youth football quarterback, these tips over and over again to get pass can be practiced skill. In addition to monitoring the tips below, you can also learn the basic principles of free football video tutorials on sites like weplay.com, where the best pros such as Peyton Manning show the right way to throw a spiral.

The grip for throwing a perfect spiral

It can be difficult for young soccer players to get a good grip on the football as their hands is not large enough. That does not care that they learn the proper technique with some minor adjustments.

Football must be seized light with just the touch of a finger and not the rest in the Palm of the hand. The slight increase grip ball control. This can be a problem for younger players with small hands where there is no other choice but to use the Palm.It is important to your index finger on the seam to make a "spider" or spiral on the football at the release.No way to force the spider; of course, let it roll off the fingers. try to get more than turning the ball is a common mistake. as you step back in the bag, the football side-by-side with your ear if you're looking for your target audience.The ball will be cradled in the "U" between the thumb and index finger.
The Release Technique for spiral Passes

Life circle with this release technique at 50% of the capacity of your throw until you the perfectly. next, you can increase your speed if you begin to mastering the skills.
Eye on your receiver, take your arm back and then forward "Spring" in a circular motion releasing the football at the top of the arc. A good introduction will be turning the football of the index finger because you let it go.The other fingers are in support of the ball and not a spiral, and when the football late, should continue to monitor by spin and accuracy.
Dim accuracy in football

Now that you have mastered the spiral until you have to work on your target audience to get rid of.Many football recruiters list passing accuracy as the primary passing skill in selecting potential quarterbacks. a perfect spiral is useless if it bounces along the field, or even worse, in the arms of an opponent.Once again, the football throw at about 50% speed when doing the exercises of the accuracy.They are plenty of time to work on your effect as soon as you have mastered the basics.

You get set up in your position with your non-throwing hip pointed to the recipient. "set "is crucial for the accuracy and power. When you are ready to go, cock your shoulder and step on the path to your target audience if you the soccer ball. follow through on line with the Palm of the hand throw on the ground. here is an example of video demonstration of Peyton Manning follow through on the pass.

Throwing a precise spiral pass in football is not a difficult process. Repetition of the basic throwing mechanics is the key with plenty of rest. youth football players need to pass these tips every other day practice them.

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Youth football Training For Speed

At the time of the evaluation of the implementation of a training programme for your child or your youth football team you need to take several things into consideration. The driving factor that you need to consider is safety. Not only from a stretch or tension, but also of a long term damage that don't actually appear in the short term. Do not forget the children grow and you do not want to affect your player long term, would cause damage.

That said, it is well worth the condition of your youth football player or players and, in fact, a good condition and technology effectively prevents injuries occurs. Quality exercise also helps youth football players to strength and lean muscle mass as they grow up.

The history of the youth fitness training

Throughout history, young people developed and updated their muscles by work and chores. They have called for to do chores like transporting water, animals, hunting and to take part in helping the family does the basics well.If you have hunting and gathering think, the planting and harvesting of crops are all physical activities have so really youth trained throughout history.

Most of the young people involved in football programs don't have to hunt for meat or collection and transportation of food and most of them have not physically demanding chores to do. Football is a sport that is trained for the year without enormous pressure on the children. you may like the emphasis on the General cardiovascular exercise and mixing in some drilling speed that with all sports, as well as general condition.

Keys to youth football training

The key to a good youth football fitness program security, control, and the proper instruction at all times. Although flag football can start earlier, most contact football programs at the age of 10 as it is an important time for various reasons.

The games become more competitive, and earning a starting position is more difficult. staying healthy is a top priority, because you can't get playing time if you are injured. Parents, players and coaches often will decide it's time to start with some sort of physical education program such as the competition.

While the contest a 10-year to play for the first time, many have played, but have not seen as high a level of intensity. to make sure that you minimize the risk of injury, players and parents need to adapt to the right training techniques.

10 years old is too young to start daily training and isn't it time for strength training.Children are not miniature adults, the muscle structure and development that their body react differently.

Consult your doctor or sports doctor

In addition, make sure before starting a fitness program or prior to competitive play sports sure you have a doctor, preferably a sports doctor, giving the athlete a good control prior to the commencement of strenuous physical activity. would there might be something in the family history such as asthma, that has not yet been published and the last thing that you is your young athlete feeling of shape when in reality it is that a case of sport-induced asthma.

Once you have a medical certificate for your football player is the next most important thing to ensure that there is adequate supervision of the air conditioning and an amount of distilled water is available.Even if the temperature is warm players need to get a lot of water breaks so that they can moisturize.

Size matters in Endurance levels and dehydration

Younger players are smaller and faster than older players and adults dry out.It is crucial to remember that at the time of adoption of the plan your training.Make sure there's a plan and make sure there is adequate supervision of an adult who is responsible for the air conditioning or practice. the need to be involved in the exercise and look at the players carefully for signs of fatigue and dehydration.

The types of exercises and the duration of the conditioning varies greatly with the age and physical maturity of the young footballer.Make sure you during the course of the investigation by the medical professionals exactly what your player is able to take part to understand without adverse consequences for him or herself.Also, make sure you give information to the coach or professional practice or conditioning exercise.

Types of exercises for youth football training

There are many different types of exercises that can be done. those who are the most successful short intense speed and the speed increase exercises. these exercises can at any age and the attention of all ages. in addition, you can build in cooperation and competition on the exercises. Shuttle run, short sprints, relay races, agility courses and others are a fun way to stress conditioning without any pressure on the young football players.

You can also create your young footballer who participate in the general fitness training year round which will help to keep them in good shape. in good shape will help their bodies to prepare for the football season. try not to make your work of the young athlete from more than 3 times per week in low season. If they play other sports, you should take that into consideration when deciding whether or not to participate in off-season conditioning.

If you go to within 2 months of football season you can increase the frequency of the training, but not a disaster the intensity to high. Injury can cause on your player, but more importantly you can send them out on the exercise to the point where they do not want to compete in the sport is not more.

The most important thing to consider in the youth soccer practice is safety. make sure that the conditioning program will help you follow that age is appropriate for your young player is. make sure you have a physical before starting a program, and most of all, make it fun so that your youth football player wants to come back year after year, treated correctly youth football training and strengthening of quality practices that the condition of your player will not only improve their character also will improve.

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Youth football the Way Texas Tech Mike Leach

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Many of you probably watched that incredible Texas Tech-Texas game Saturday evening like I did. The sheer entertainment value of the game alone was worth the time investment, with Michael Crabtree scoring the winning touchdown on a thrilling play with just 1 second left on the clock. Mike Leach is a story unto itself, definitely a man that follows the beat of a different drummer. On the Texas side of the ball, athletes abound and Mack Brown is a true gentleman, a modern statesman of the game.

The Youth Football Lesson in This

As youth football coaches what can we learn from Coach Leach? First let's look for a moment at Coach Leach's background. With the exception of one year of sitting on the bench of his High School football team as a Junior, he never played organized football. He got his Bachelors at BYU and then his Law Degree from Pepperdine. At age 25, married, with his second child on the way he decides he wants to be a College Football coach. Yeah right, After stops at College of the Desert, Cal Poly, Iowa Wesleyan, Valdosta State, Finland and Kentucky he is now the head coach of Texas Tech, Not bad for a self described "Christian with serious obedience issues". He seems to look at things from a slightly different perspective, maybe even a sort of an "outsiders" viewpoint.

He has amassed a 74-37 record at a school that rarely, no let's rephrase that, never gets the top tier or even second tier talent in the state of Texas. Those players are reserved for Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M. Those kids go to the big money, big stadium, big tradition schools, not to Texas Tech and it's tiny 57.000 seat stadium with a masked pirate Zorro mascot. Just getting to Lubbock is a major undertaking, like something out of one of those "Dead Zone" commercials, the place none of the Big 12 Media crews relish going.

Leach does it with quarterbacks no one else wants, 6 foot kids with offers to just Tech and maybe a mid major school. He has started a number of quarterbacks for just one season, many being fifth year seniors like BJ Symons, who passed for 52 touchdowns in his only year as a starter. The following season Symons was replaced by another fifth year senior, Sonny Cumbie, who passed for 4.742 yards, the sixth best in NCAA history. This season Cody Hodges a fifth year senior with four years of bench sitting experience is leading Tech's quest for it's first ever Big 12 Title and even a shot at the National Championship.

Now what does this all mean to us youth football coaches?

The Leach Formula

Mike Leach saw when he came to Texas Tech, that there was no way he would ever be able to match up with Texas, Oklahoma, A&M and the big boys by doing more of what they were doing. He was always going to have to settle for the second and third tier players. He focused on bringing in fast, smart kids that were maybe a bit undersized or odd shaped, kids that maybe didn't look like football players. Certainly former bag of bones quarterback Kliff Kingsbury fit that mold. He looked like he would need weights in his shoes to hold him down when the stiff winds of West Texas blew around Lubbock. Listed at 175 pounds, this weight number was about as accurate as the weight listed on a 45 year old woman's drivers license. Tech running back Taurean Henderson looked more like a skinny Munchkin from the Wizard of Oz with really bad hair than a Big 12 Running Back.

How do you win with talent like this? I'm sure that is what Leach asked himself 10 years ago when he started at Tech,

This is What He Did:

He widened the offensive line splits, so his diminutive quarterbacks would have lanes they could see and throw through as well as to make the edges so far outside that his quarterbacks would have more time against the incredible athleticism many Big 12 Defensive Ends have. Over the course of a game those long pass rushes tire out these monstrous defensive ends so by the fourth quarter his quarterbacks have all day to throw. The offensive line splits vary dramatically from 3 to 9 feet. This also gave his smaller offensive linemen nice angles for those big defensive linemen aligned in the gaps.

He committed to passing the ball first, with most seasons averaging over 55 throws per game.

He committed to throwing the ball with just a few concepts, All Curl, 4 Verticals, Y-Stick, Shallow, Bubble Screens and Mesh, The laminated play card for his quarterback had just 26 offensive plays on it for the Texas Game. Coach Leach does NOT have a huge play card filled with hundreds of plays and down and distance material, he has a simple piece of non laminated paper usually folded up into fourths, like some kind of crumpled up crib sheet, with about 30 plays on it. If a play works he writes an O next to it and runs it again, if it fails he writes an X next to it and doesn't . In the Texas game, All Curl must have had an O next to it because he threw it least 5 times.

He committed to running those few concepts out of many formations and looks. So while Leach may be called the "Mad Scientist", his playbook is relatively simple. Those TV pundits have no clue.

Why does it work?

How and why does it work? The precision of his receiver's routes are second to none. Watch them sometimes, you will not see anything like it anywhere. The timing, the execution in uncanny. There is nothing revolutionary about these football plays, it is the execution that is flawless and revolutionary. The pass protection is equally as flawless, the Tech quarterback has been sacked just twice so far this season.

The Youth Football Equivalent

As a youth football coach we have to look at what we have to work with and how that compares to our competition. Can we afford to run what everyone else is in the league is running and expect the kids to have success? Should we run the exact same football plays and formations as our bigger and faster competition and expect to compete? Or do we have to be creative and run something different? Tech decided to run something different.

Do we need 40-50-60 plays in our playbook? Tech did it on Saturday with 26 football plays and Tech gets to practice 6 days a week nearly year round. They are masters of a few concepts run out of multiple formations.

Do We Throw in Our Chips With Leach?

When coaching youth football does this mean you should commit to throwing the ball 60 times a game and widening your splits to 6-9 feet with your football team? No, not at all. In youth football, we don't get to practice 6 days a week nearly year round or cut anyone (most teams), Texas Tech doesn't have to worry about getting every player into the game regardless of game circumstances or have squad sizes of 25 instead of 150. Your kids aren't going to be able to widen splits out to 9 feet, when you are starting an nonathletic future computer nerd at one offensive line spot and the future tuba player of the marching band at another. Those kind of kids can't fill a 2 foot gap let alone a 6-9 foot gap. Most youth football teams aren't going to have 2-3 good well trained backup quarterbacks waiting in the wings for when the starter gets hurt or is sick. Even your best quarterback attending every QB camp known to man isn't going to throw to a streaking wideout and hit him with pinpoint accuracy on the outside tip of his sideline shoulder on a 25 yard sideline streak route like Tech consistently does ( impossible to defend). But what we youth football coaches can learn from Leach is to compete, you don't have the biggest and most athletic team in your league, but you have to be different. You don't have to have 60 football plays in your playbook, but what you do need are complementary plays that you execute to absolute perfection. That's why my teams run the Single Wing offense and why we have a limited number of 100% complementary play series we perfect every season.

Tech still has a tough row to hoe with Oklahoma State up next, but they are always fun to watch. Heck if Tech hadn't converted on a 4th and 6 from their own 35 against Nebraska 2 weeks ago in a narrow win, we may not even be having this conversation. But Mike Leach thinks 4th and 6 is a makeable down even from his own 35. When his "no play" failed, Crabtree delivered with a "broken play" 65 yard TD catch, which was the difference maker in the game. Mike Leach is an enigma.

Dave Cisar-

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Lessons in Winning when Coaching Youth Football:

Winning in youth football isn't that much different than winning in other sports. In fact there may be value in looking at teams and coaches in other sports and see if you can learn something to take to your youth football team.

Learning From John Wooden

I'm in the process or reading a book about John Woodens "Pyramid of Success". While I'm not a huge basketball fan, I thought I could learn a thing or two from this UCLA basketball legend that won 7 Consecutive NCAA National Championships, 88 straight games along with 38 consecutive NCAA Tournament wins.

Many of you may not know that when John Wooden took over UCLA, the program was a joke. Coach Wooden's main source of income was as a Dairy Manager, UCLA rarely drew over 2,000 fans and for his first 17 years they had no on-campus place to play or practice. The facilities were the absolute worst in the conference and maybe the country, yet his teams not only succeeded, they dominated year in and year out.

What surprised me most about coach Wooden's approach to the game was his absolute disinterest in the opposition. While he did study some film, he studied far less of it than any of his peers. Coach Wooden was of the strong opinion that his teams would do what they did best and spend their valuable practice time preparing to execute Coach Wooden's philosophy.

Don't Frett the Opposition, Worry About Yourself

In this book, player after player reiterated what Coach Wooden had said about the opposition. His players were very consistent in the notion they cared little about who they played or even the style they played against. In some of the games the UCLA players didn't know the names of the opposing players or even what conference the opposing team was from. This wasn't because UCLA didn't respect the opposition, it was because they truly felt, it really didn't matter who they were playing against, they were going to execute. UCLA players were PLAYING AGAINST THEMSELVES, they were playing against their potential, not against an opposing team. UCLA was prepared against any philosophy, system or contingency.

These UCLA players were very confident, not in their personal abilities but in the team, the coach and the system. These UCLA teams and players had a calm aura of confidence and invincibility about themselves that served them well in close games and intimidated the heck out of most of the teams that played them.

I see so many youth football coaches scouting and worrying about the opposition when their own team is struggling with it's own execution. I watched one Louisiana youth coaches game films last season. While he claimed to play in a "tough league" where all the coaches scouted each other, I found little to scout. The execution and alignment of all the teams in this league were atrocious, something I had not even seen in rookie in-house rec level leagues here locally. All of these coaches would have been best served teaching their kids their systems and fundamentals, and not worried one iota about their opposition. The scouting time was time poorly spent.

Nebraska National Championship Example

My friend Jerry Tagge said the very same thing about the University of Nebraska football teams of 1970 and 1971. They went a combined 24-0-1 and won back to back National Championships. Jerry was the starting quarterback on both of those teams and the team leader on and off the field. When asked what was the most enduring memory of that 1971 Season which saw NU outscore its opposition 507-104 and win the National Title Game over #2 Alabama 38-6 Jerry didn't hesitate for a moment he said " We knew we were going to win every game before we stepped on the field".

Jerry said they had so much confidence in themselves, their team, their coach and their system, the only question in their mind was how much were they going to win by. While many of their games were huge blowouts, they did trail #2

Oklahoma a number of times in that game, still referred by most as the "Game of the Century". Jerry said at no time did they ever panic, they knew somehow, someway they were going to win, they stayed very upbeat and confident throughout the entire game. He said; "We just knew we were going to win", in his mind and the teams mind, the game was a foregone conclusion.

As a young kid, I was at every one of Jerry's home games in 1970 and 1971. We would get to the games very early we would go down near the field and watch the players warm up. That seems so long ago and those players all seemed so huge back then to a 10 year old boy. We would go down under the stadium and watch the players come out from the locker room for the kickoff from behind ropes. Many of the players would give you a quick hand slap if you leaned over far enough and smiled real big. What I remembered most is how calm these guys were and that none of them did any jumping up and down or hollering, like you see so much of today on TV and even in youth and High School football games. The NU players were always so eerily quiet, some would crack a smile or two, but there was zero rah rah stuff going on. It always seemed like in those days the team that was playing Nebraska often played in an inverse relationship to how much emotion they displayed. Oklahoma was one of the rare teams back in that day that could consistently compete with Nebraska and they weren't rah rah either, they were equally calm and confident.

60-3 in the 90's

There was an era in Nebraska football from 1993-1997 that the team went an amazing 60-3, winning 3 National Titles along the way and barely missing another. In those days teams would often lie down for Nebraska. What I remember most about those teams is there was zero fanfare, no players had their faces painted up, no one was jumping up and down, no one yelled, it was just Darth Vader walking down the tunnel. Someone was going to get the heck kicked out of them that day and it certainly wasn't going to be Nebraska. Quite often the other team looked like little wide eyed lambs being led to slaughter, you could feel it in the air. Sometimes an opposing team would show a bit of false nervous bravado, but back in those days most of them had those bambie eyes that said " I'm not sure whats going to happen next, but I doubt if it's going to be good for me personally". By the end of the second quarter they were looking for a "soft spot" to land to use a boxing term. If you know anyone that was in the stadium back then, just ask them. No offense to the opposition, they were always given a standing ovation by the NU fans after the game, win lose or draw. Maybe it was our way of showing our appreciation for the opposition enduring the carnage and surviving.

Were the Nebraska players cocky, arrogant or disrespectful? Not at all, they were just keenly confident in their preparation, scheme, coaches and team. They had no reason to act like clowns, they were just going to do what they knew they could do, game over, move on to the next goal. Now of course we are in a different day, the man has been seen behind the curtain, the aura is gone, Mike Tyson has been knocked out and the giant has been found to have feet of clay. But in those days, that is what it was and those same monsters exist in youth football today.

Applied to Youth Football

What can we as youth football coaches do to inspire such confidence in our youth football kids?

I can say with a great deal of confidence that it can be done. I've done it in the most ridiculous of circumstances. I have taken teams into situations where we faced enormous odds: in 2003 My Age 8-10 Team played and convincingly beat two age 11-12 League Championship teams, one at a 10,000 seat College Stadium down 7-0 and severely undersized and outmanned. In 2004 I took an all rookie rural team to an 11-0 season and beat the League Champions of a much bigger league where more than half their kids were veteran players. In 2005 I took the same team of age 8-10 non-select kids ( took all comers) and beat (30-6) a huge Inner-City Select Team that chose from over 150 kids and had not lost in 3 years. They started at least 5 kids who weighed over 150 pounds and had one monster at over 210, we on the other hand had just 2 players over 100 pounds. That same year we beat a team (mercy ruled) that had not lost in 5 years ( started our 4th team quarterback in that game) and beat another Omaha select team (36-6) that were champions of their league. In 2006 I took an age 8-10 team to a tournament in

Kansas City and we blew out a team that started 5-6 kids in excess of 150 pounds including 2 huge defensive tackles over 190, mind you our starting center weighed just 71 pounds at the time (usual starter was out). In 2007 my age 10-11 team played a Malcom team that during the National Anthem size up had 8 "striped" players to our 1. Striped means the player weighs over 128 pounds and must wear a stripe on his helmet. Not only did this team have us outnumbered 8-1 on striped players, but their stripers were huge, with at least 3 of the starters weighing over 180. Our lone striped player weighed 148 then our next biggest players were 115 and 105. In every one of these games we were outmanned but the kids were very confident.

How did we do it? I promise you it had nothing to do with paying much attention to our opposition. Had we done that I'm not sure we would have had the same amount of success. In practice we waste no time on frivolous non football activities and execute a core offense and defense to perfection against most known contingencies. We know how to align our defense on every offense and how to respond to the typical tactics used to stop our offense. Our kids are confident in the scheme, their assignments, their technique, the execution and the coaches. We expect them to do well and they expect it as well. For those of you that have the game films you know our kids don't get very excited on touchdowns or big plays, they expect them to happen, same for the coaching staff, You don't see any jumping up and down or fists in the air, it is expected, quiet calm confidence. We always talk to the kids in past terms "After we score our 4th touchdown remember to XYZ", "After the game is over remember the other team drove a long way to be here and will be very disappointed, don't jump up and down and make a big deal out of the win and make them feel bad, we expect to play well, it shouldn't be any kind of surprise" etc. I've been told our kids act a lot more confident than their outward appearance should justify.

Before games we face away from the competition and even arrive very late, we do just a 30 minute pre-game while our opposition do 60-90 minutes. Our kids seem to be a bit oblivious to who we play, rural, suburban inner-city, big, out of town etc, by ignoring the opposition and worrying about ourselves, we have created that environment.We are always in competition with ourselves, our potential, not the opposing team. Match that up with our "easy count" play mapping system, adjustments and key identifiers and the need to scout every opponent is negated. Do we scout our opposition? Very little, maybe one game a year, but they scout the heck out of us and it hasn;t seemed to help too much even with the film, book and trading information between themselves.

Once you have it rolling, the aura feeds upon itself and can include things like Championship Banners, Trophy Displays and other examples that reinforce the inevitability of your teams success in your players minds and the minds of their opponents.

Dave Cisar-

Dave has a passion for developing youth coaches so they can in turn develop teams that are competitive and well organized. He is a Nike "Coach of the Year" Designate and speaks nationwide at Coaches Clinics. His book "Winning Youth Football a Step by Step Plan" was endorsed by Tom Osborne and Dave Rimington.

With over 15 years of hands-on experience as a youth coach, Dave has developed a detailed systematic approach to developing youth players and teams. His personal teams to using this system to date have won 94% of their games in 5 Different Leagues.

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Athletic development in youth football

Athletic development is the process of the development of players, speed, flexibility and speed. it is worthy goal for your players at coaching youth soccer, unfortunately, many young people trainers or take it too far, or they are in a very inefficient way.

What the poorly performing youth football teams do
When observing traditional poorly performing programmes for youth football, which is a common theme is much, much of the conditioning and or attempts on athletic development and many of the full contact scrimmaging. There is rarely little attention has been paid to the development and perfecting of offensive and defensive team implementation of technique. The traditionally successful programmes on the other hand, usually spend most of the time of their valuable practice in the development of the art and the ordinary things extraordinarily well to do so.Athletic development, air conditioning and full contact scrimmaging are usually kept to an absolute minimum with these teams.

Athletic development for youth football players is something that is a whole effort.We do a program called FASTT every spring, stands for the acceleration of the fun, speed and Technique Training. we meet only once a week for about 8 weeks, with the purpose of the introduction of the players at some basic athletic development training methods in a nice atmosphere so that if she decides to train at their own, they have a knowledge and basic to do so. a byproduct of this 90-minute sessions that teach our children how to be coachable and how we want them to be with us and their teammates to communicate.

The program consists of 30 minutes from athletic development, 30 minutes from the development of the skills of the football and 30 minutes of pure fun team-building "game" time. This mix has allowed with very high employment rate and the kids love interest rate levels high.

What should I do drilling
When we went to the sports development of the program design we looked at the explosiveness, agility and speed of our players to improve with regard to the requirements of the game of football. There are endless possibilities of training methods, in the end we chose proven speed, as well as some basic plyometric movements and improve methods and when we combined with specific movements of the football.

The key is to kill two birds with one stone, even in the spring. When you start your football practices in July or August for fall football, have you just don't have the time to do a lot of this type of activity. in the fall you have to yourself, what are my goals and what is the most effective method of there?All this goes back to your mission.Our mission is "to develop and love and appreciation of the game of football in our players to help them life lessons can the game teaches us all".We all know that this happen the children have to stick around and continue to do so. our research has shown that children play because they are having fun and they are a reasonable amount of the individual and team success.To have them that success and have fun, we have a premium in the development of good fundamental technique in perfecting the implementation of the team.The athletic development part of our program is pretty slim during the season, because with the practice of limited time, you take your time to recommend the most effective method to your goals.

The two for a deal
However, if your basic techniques develop football while they are also the advantage of athletic development, this would be a very effective and efficient use of your time.Here is an example of two very simple movements we combine to achieve this goal: a very effective movement that is used to help players body control and Acceleration skills is a stop start type movement, think of things like the pro dexterity or type drilling ladder. these exercises are usually very intense close exercises where a player needs to remain low, stop, change direction, speed up in a very short, in the direction of change, and to speed up again. of course, these are the types of things that he will be asked to do when he's on the football field.

We have this kind of movement combined with a drill which we normally use to our players get to grips with the correct shape and to speed up by the contact. displays the total drill: take a cone, and the place if counter start, you can never have too many cones, the second cone is estimated at an angle of 30 degrees to the left at about 6 feet, the third of the cone is placed on an angle of 30 degrees to the right side of the cone 2 on about 6 feet where a coach now with a high stand-up dummy. traffic to the player to run from the beginning to Cone cone 2, and then tap it come to in the area of standstill, remain low and run outside basis as he hits the cone, he then speeds up to where the coach with the launch of the pop on the cone 3 States, now the player is running is a fit to tackle on the pop with his head on the outside (right), his knees bent, his toes almost touching the pop and his head on his left shoulder contact on the contact point that you specify.

After you everyone in your small group, the fit would be the second time around the dummy players take on the ground with the responsibility of the players at the same coach coaching points.

As soon as it is finished, now take a cone, and put the 6 feet to the right of the exit cone, and have the coach with the dummy stationed 6 meters on the left, and at 30 degrees of the new 2-cone. Now repeat what you the first time around, but this time the player starts to his right and left, this time, his head will be on the left, and contact will be made with the right shoulder. the first Rep with a suitable and the second with the player that has the pop to the ground — you will have to do at a pace that where you have a player comes through on every 6 seconds, this is just one of many exercises where we have succeeded in reaching an athletic development movement in our basic drilling without the time needed to work on the form of the basic technique be substantially modified.

The keys
Don't overdo the athletic development as many trainers. very often when you do this, are not your players and teams is making good progress with basic football team technology fundamentals and. However, if exercises such as in the above example, where both athletic development and football technique be taught in the same movement can you combine, you may need to own something that makes any sense.

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How to spot a bad coaching youth football not good, and guide team

Telltale signs of bad accompanied youth football teams:

How to tell if a youth football team is bad coached in relation to a team that just does not accept players?
That's a very good question, other than the obvious organizational characters (bad practices priorities), there is a simple character always tells me talent as a team or not.How does the team on the Defense? they are each game 50-0 loss or the losses are 20-6, 12-0, 18-6? The team is getting a lot of talk?

As a youth football team every game of 50 points, which they can lose in one of those situations 100-1 "perfect storm", a rarity is akin to a Bigfoot sighting in Kansas.But if they are "ok" on the defence in spurts do, this means that the team has a few athletes, but has no offense. How can a youth football team with a few athletes on the defense and can hold their own in spurts, so little points score on the attack? POOR soccer coachUsually much "grab bags" a little bit of this, little of that and very little to score. Most of these teams will be carried out too much play football, and the coach seems to always be looking for that Holy Grail of football plays his transgression of the recession. These violations often change from week to week.

The head coach is responsible for choosing the offensive scheme, the education and, in most cases, call on the football plays. There are plenty of violations that are designed for teams of even small and slow. There is no reason why every youth football team in America should not be an average of at least 20 points a game, even bad teams. If your head coach teams or organizations consistently on average less than 20 points a game, the offensive action is both arms or it does not fit the children.

By the way, not the children fun each if they are getting out of 4 of 9 games, kids want to score touchdowns.Choose The head coach, he is 100% responsible for his choice, so not consistent scoring his system and his play football, it was a bad choice and decision making skills discussion. What is more good youth football coaching in other than the sum of good decisions made? If the coaches ego is so connected with the existing way of doing things that he makes no changes that will benefit the children, what does this say about the coach? Is he for themselves the children?

If you are coaching youth football are stuck or play on a team, ask yourself whether the head coach, "the exact changes will happen this year that go on in order to ensure that the team more points than the previous season scoring will?" "What, exactly, is going to change specific this year that is different than last year?"

If the answer is "Gee-coaches I hope we can realize a better that" X "player", Houston, there is a problem. the fairies football to drop the following Barry Sanders in your lap set your hope is not good youth football coaching and is the mantra of the excuse maker coach who want to enter the game 100% about who the most talent, a lottery of sorts. That's why I don't recruit Stud players, as the local nail wrestler, baseball, basketball player want to play for us, we will be sure that everyone on his wrestling, baseball, basketball team has one of our flyers.But I could care less if the nail or not, we are going to do with which group of Misfit Toys Christmas drops on our door.

That's why I'm a bit leery of the "Super recruiter" youth football coaches, which is so much of his work in the recruitment of players. My preference is for a less talented youth football team, it's more fun and profits with them more rewarding than a team loaded with size and talent. If you're stuck with a coach like the "Barry Sanders" wisher and can't convince him to change to an attack that do not rely on talent or he's not that he's got a problem and needs to admit will adjust, look for another team or organization to respond.Life is too short to waste your time with such heads in the sand are disabled, and it's not worth the frustration.

In 1999 we were many games of 18-6, 12-0 loss. I admitted that we had a problem to resolve, and were not to put in a few new football games and hope for the different results or wait 10 years before that one in a million player to drop on our rounds or do the same thing over and over and over again. other infringements and methodologies, switched to the internal Wing attack investigated and in our first year of the gate we average about 35 points a game and won a championship league.Last year 13 different children scored touchdowns on my personal team as we average about 40 points per game. In 1999, I had 3 different children score touchdowns, which team do you think more fun? Larry Lourcey Plano, Texas had a youth football team, who scored 4 TDs in 2005, in 2006 they switched to the internal Wing attack with exactly the same team and scored 44 TDs with 11 different players scoring and went from 0-10, now that's fun.

Get left out is not fun, ask your players.There are hundreds of stories like this, but they are not submitted by teams, led by Mr ostrich. show "Mr head in the sand" what video of his team and then a good coached youth football teams DVD that an average of 40 points a game and let him decide for themselves.If all what he wants to do is pray for Mr Superstud to the country in his lap, or he two new football play, change the teams.Youth football coaching should be fun, it won't if you have to train with him.

Funny how even in 100% complete blind "design competitions, which every year the same coaches WINS. Coaching youth football is not a lottery, let no man you feed that line.

Dave Cisar-

Dave has a passion for developing Youth buses so that teams that competitive and well organized in turn, are able to develop. He is a Nike "coach of the year" point-and-rural speaks at coaches clinics. his book?winning youth football a step by step plan? by Tom Osborne and Dave Rimington was approved.

With more than 15 years of experience as a youth coach, Dave has developed a detailed systematic approach to develop players and teams. his personal teams for the use of this system so far have won 97% of their games in 5 different competitions. his website is: football plays

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Youth football-How Your youth football team Nationwide stack up?

Youth football is youth football No Matter Where You Live

Many coaches seem to feel biased on certain areas of the country with higher quality youth football than other parts of the country. some youth football coach of less densely populated areas of the country seem to often feel a little less on the level of play in their areas.

My personal experience and evidence of the results of the national youth soccer tournaments do not attach to these ideas. I have seen teams play video or looked from almost every State in the country, and I have been doing clinics for more than 5,000 buses all over the country. I've had a great youth football played in areas of the country known for its big football such as Florida, Ohio and Texas, California. I have also included some of the worst coached youth football in the same countries.I have excellent athletic and football coaching from a State most don't think of when they of football, places such as Utah, Maryland, Virginia, Washington and New York, United States of America think. at the level of the young people a part of the country dominates, just look at the winners of the Pop Warner National Championship of the great Unlimited national tournament in Daytona. The teams come from everywhere and there is no trend, winners come from all over the nation.

While many feel their competitions are competitive and their part of the country is somehow inherently better than others I highly recommend that you take your team to one of the many national tournaments. They are a real eye opener and a great experience for your children. As a child I still remember my Bowl travel, in particular the trip to Las Vegas and I know that our children love going so well to Florida.

As the children grow older perhaps there are some differences, regional preferences, and jump football or even throughout the year by football make certain areas of the country "fires" for football talent. Some countries have even enormous budgets and football coaches to learn that not quite or very low class loads and even "sport" periods when they meet with their football players year round in the classroom. As a result of their differences, differences in DI-football players come from different countries.But in the early years of development, the differences are not as great as that many think.

I had the pleasure of clinics in Utah, Montana and Washington State these last three weeks work and play they are good youth football there. great people and coaches in it for the right reasons. These are some of the most organized and also coached competitions I've come across.More on that in the next few days with an incredible stories.Yes we have a youth soccer/bear story, which is almost too incredible report life. just know while youth football a lot of commonality across the nation, there are some great nuances, including a live beer in Montana shooting during a contest for young people, this is a not to be missed.

Dave Cisar

Dave is a Nike "coach of the year" point-and-rural speaks at coaches clinics. his book "Winning youth football a step by step plan" approved by Tom Osborne and Dave Rimington. his personal teams using this system so far have won 94% of their games in 5 different competitions.

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Acting like a maniac at coaching youth football, you have to ever?

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All people are different, God made us unique for a purpose. Hence, no two youth football coaches are going to have the same exact sidelines demeanor. Some coaches are humorous and animated, some are quietly confident, some are aggressive and loud and some are just soaking it all in and enjoying the moment. All of these expressions of who we are probably have a time and place when you are coaching youth football, but there are some expressions you should keep to yourself. Many of these won't do your reputation or your team much good.

Here are a few examples:

About 16 years ago I started coaching youth football as an assistant coach on an age 8-10 expansion team. Like most expansion teams with all rookie players and rookie coaches, we struggled that first year. We knew we were going to struggle from the start, as most expansion teams in the league usually lost every game. Our head coach was a very well respected Real Estate Executive with the largest firm in the state. He had given presentations to large crowds and had dozens of direct reports, a pretty savvy guy. Our first game our players were nervous as you might expect with all first year players. Before the game I saw the Head Coach kind of doubled over near the sidelines with a grimace on his face and a near greenish color hue on his mug. I asked him if he was sick, he said his stomach was killing him and he was nauseous. I asked him if he had been sick this week, he replied no, that it was the game that was making his stomach cramp and making him nauseous. This grown man, a big shot was letting a youth football game get to him.

The head coach leads by example, the players are always taking their cues from him and our head coach was nervous and sick before our first game. This was a time when our kids were feeling the same emotions, needless to say we got blown out that day. Our coach was so wrapped up in how the team would do, he made himself sick that day and it hurt his teams performance and enjoyment of the game.

Another youth football coach I know of actually is so emotional before his games that he goes off in his car, sits in a park and cries before the games to let all his emotions out. Obviously this guy may need some type of professional help and I wouldn't let a guy like that coach with me, but many youth football coaches let their emotions get the best of them.

While it's normal to feel some angst before games, if you're making yourself sick or are overly emotional before games you are taking this far too seriously. Do some of us get up in the morning and on the way to work think about football plays to run or ways to improve our youth football teams? Yes. Do many of us put a lot of time and effort into our teams and improving as coaches? Sure. But thinking about youth football and making yourself a better coach have little to do with letting your emotions get the best of you before a game.

We all want our teams to do well and that the kids have a great experience, but life isn't going to change dramatically and the earth won't stop spinning if you don't coach the perfect game. If you put the time in and learn from others and your own experiences and are a good football coach. your teams will eventually play well. Over time if your teams are well coached and they play well, the wins will take care of themselves. As a head football coach all you can control is your teams preparation and the schemes and adjustments, you can't control the weather, the refs or the other teams performance.

Does this mean you are obsolved if your youth football team loses? No, it means you are in control of what you can control and as long as your team executes and plays well, that's all you can hope for. In the end, playing well usually equates to winning games, but fretting over it accomplishes nothing and actually hurts your teams performance. If the kids see you aren't enjoying the experience, they aren't going to enjoy it either and a team without smiles on their faces is a team that plays poorly.

Don't forget to get a good meal in you before the game and bring some Gatorade for yourself as well. I pray on my way to games or in the morning of the game asking God for wisdom, patience and for me to have a long term focus on my actions. I also ask that God may be glorified by my actions and the actions of my team that day. I'm not sure God takes sides in youth football games, I never pray to win, but I do pray that all my kids show up and that no one from either team is injured that day. For those not so inclined, maybe looking at how you will be remembered 10 years after the game is finished is a good perspective to take on guiding your actions for the day. Of course I'm also reviewing in my mind my game plan, keys adjustments and substitution plans for the day as well.

For most of us the level of discomfort in any task is inversely related to how well we have prepared ourselves for for the task. The first few public clinics I did I was pretty nervous, I had never done any large clinics before strangers and the presentations were with new material. ( Kind of like having a new team or playing your first game) I had not had time to practice the presentations or gotten feedback as to where there would be additional questions or even if the presentations would be well received ( Kind of like not doing lots of fit and freeze reps or even having a scrimmage). As you would expect, the first few clinics were ok but they could have been much better. Now I always practice the presentations live and now even in front of crowds of 190 skeptical youth football coaches in Boston, I'm cool and confident.

As this relates to your youth football team, the better your team is prepared the less nervous you will be. The more thorough you have prepared yourself and your youth football team, the less nervous you will be. Easy enough to say, hard to do for some. Either way, once you've put in the effort into yourself and your team, you have to tell yourself that's all you can do. As the book about De LaSalle High Schools 151 game winning streak says,

"There is comfort in knowing you have given all you have". In the end you just have to let the game play out and see the results. If you've done the research and put the time in, like any other Endeavour, you're probably going to be a successful youth football coach.

This premise is probably made most clear by my teams opening game results, we are always well prepared, calm and confident. Even at our first game, our football plays look crisp, our alignments are perfect, we always have 11 on the field, we block and tackle well, we even go in motion well and are seldom penalized. We almost always win our opening games by huge margins, even against the best youth football teams in our league

Past Years Scores

We are able to do this because of our wise use of practice time, our integrated schemes and the progression nature of the teaching methods we use to develop our teams. We go into these games with a lot of confidence. Quite often we are literally months ahead of our competition that first game. We have been told many times by our opponents that our kids seem to be pretty carefree and very confident. My thoughts are we appear so because we are, the kids know they are prepared to play that first game. Our coaches are all calm, cool and confident before the games because as we all know, the kids are all taking their cues from us, that calm demeanor is part of coaching youth football well. If your coaches are fretting and worried, the kids will be too. Even if deep inside you aren't confident any of your football plays will even work that day, you need to appear so on the outside for your youth football players and your team.

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Dave has a passion for developing youth coaches so they can in turn develop teams that are competitive. His teams have won over 94% of their games in 5 different leagues. He is a Nike "Coach of the Year" designate and his book has been endorsed by Tom Osborne.

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