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How Mark Cuban Can Be Successful With The UFL

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Leave it to Mark Cuban to take on the mighty NFL. I, for one, am all for it. I love football. I willingly give up one full day each week to watch the pros. I even register in online chat rooms to discuss ways to improve the NFL and to make this proposed new league successful. Further, if I had the means, I would gladly join Mr. Cuban in this endeavor he looks to pursue. But, a word of caution, from my perspective as the customer, about the direction of …

The Arena Football League – Why it is Better Today!

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The AFL is an amazing opportunity for all. Players, fans, coaches, owners, broadcasters and publishers. The original “Ironman” concept is gone forever; it went away when the NFL meddler’s had their way with the rule changes and used the AFL to bury NFL Europe. No longer will players like Barry Wagner, Hunkie Cooper, Mark Tucker, Bob McMillen, be required to fill rosters. These players were true Ironmen. They could and would play both ways if needed. They could and did add multiple skill sets to their player’s toolbox. Try to …

Guide To Become An American Football Coach

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Coaching is exciting and fulfilling and gives you an opportunity to produce great games and superstars of the next generation. If you love football and you would like to get a career out of it, then becoming a football coach is the right career for you. The role of being a coach is very demanding and challenging that to be one takes serious determination and priority. Here are steps needed to break into American football coaching and some are suggested by successful coaches from NFL: You must first love the …

Coaching Youth Football – Offensive Line Drill

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When planning who my blockers are I utilize this pop warner football drill. I should say, I have my offensive line coaches perform this test. It is a classic test participants block against the instructor was clutches a blocking pad. Every child starts out in a three point stance straight in front of the manager. The coach exhales into the whistle, or shouts a cadence and the participant strikes the pad with as much force as he can and thrust blocks the coach. The instructor will maintain his position while …

Youth Football Coaching Lessons, Beyond X’s and O’s

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Developing True Championship Level Teams Coaching youth football well goes so much further than X’s and O’s. The most successful coaches seem to always be able to get the most out of their teams. Little of that success seems to be based on superior technique, talent or even schemes. How do they do that? How The Best Coaches Do It While there are many theories as to what the secret to this kind of success is, it seems that a consistent component is these coaches seem to legitimately care about …

Age Differences When Coaching Youth Football

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Coaching Considerations for Various Age Groups in Youth Football In previous posts, I have given numerous tips for working with younger aged youth football players. As mentioned in the book and in these posts, the 6-8 year old kids are very visual and we showed you many tricks on how use that to your advantage. How do the other youth football age groups vary from each other? These are generalizations that I have found have held true with my own teams as well as from what I have seen doing …

Coaching Youth Football – Lessons Learned from Other Sports

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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 over 90% of our kids had never put a glove on, as baseball popularity has declined dramatically in the inner-city. Since we had been able to completely turn around our football program from the bottom of the league to the …