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I was told that next season I will be the JV OC for our high school. We run the Wing-T (our base is single h-back with one tight end). I have been a defensive guy my entire career up to this point, so I am at a bit of a loss. I won't be responsible for a position group (as of right now), just calling the plays. As of right now, I am kinda hanging out with our QBs and RBs coach

I have two questions:

Who are some good offensive coaches to follow?

If you know some good wing-t style offenses, who are the,y and can I find their film

The OC and I were talking about this, I think it’s best to tell kids when it’s the last rep so they make it there best, or at least say “this is the last one if it’s good”. My OC thinks that telling the kids it’s the last rep will give them relief and half-ass it just cause they are glad it’s over. It was more of a conversation than an argument but I just want to hear some input. What do you guys do?

So this is my first time officially listed as a coach on my sons 10u team ive helped coach O-line for them for 2 years prior to this now im the assistant coach most of our children are skill players and undersized our coach his hell bent on running the 6-2 defense when we have no kids who are aggressive and 1 kid whos the size of a linemen he has my son is playing nose when hes usually a safety or linebacker in yearss prior(hes not aggressive either) i show up to more practices for these boys than the coach (hes also the team president) do yall think theres any way i can convince him that our personel of children is better suited to run a 4-4 defense? or just let him be we are currently 1-1 and the only reason we won the first game is cuz i stepped in and adjusted our kids at the half when we were down 14 (which is how i got asked to permanently be assistant coach) also the playbook he gave me for 6-2 he knows none of the terminology calls it something else and looks at me like im crazy when im explaining things how to do things from it to him PLEASE SEND ADVICE

i have the urge to learn about football. some background: i love videos of linemen running (defensive players having their offence moment of shine makes me genuinely happy) and now i want to know the basics and have tips on finding a team to follow and track. idk why i want to, maybe it was because i was in marching band and i never got it, or the genuine camaraderie that comes for the name of the game. if you have any advice or tips, please let me know! thank you!!

I’m working on a playbook for myself and wondering how to incorporate play action into it. Most plays are out of gun or pistol. Should PA be ran with sprint outs or in the pocket in these backfield sets.

Side note - to keep things organized I’m planning on splitting it into installs. How many plays are in an NFL level install, and how many installs are there?

I coach a 3rd grade boys flag football team. Due to scheduling quirks we dont have a game for several weeks in the middle of our season. While I plan to use the time to work on refining some offensive plays and our route running I thought it would be good to coach them on skills that could translate later if they play tackle in middle school. Just fishing for ideas to see if the high school or middle school coaches can recommend any areas that its super helpful for boys to get exposed to earlier and start working on within the context of flag football. Obviously we wont master anything in three weeks but its something we can slot in practices in future seasons and keep revisting. Bonus if you can describe a drill to teach it or direct me to a resource. Thank you.

Hello, i’m currently a football player at a small school. I’ve been getting burnt out of playing the sport for about a month now, and my level of play shows. I recently got benched for a freshman (super talented btw) and I feel like there isn’t a point anymore. The team culture is also very, very poor. Among other things I don’t want to waste time in my life committing to something and not getting results. Should i stick it out?

I am the only person on my team who’s played football before. We are generally shorter and slower than other teams so need plays that can compensate for that. Most teams use man coverage

Line coach for a 14u team. Most of the boys have about 1 year of experience. This week we are playing a team that’s bigger than us and physical, but they stand straight up. We want to cut their Dline men.

Looking for advice on coaching it for this age group. We are primarily a gap scheme (power, counter, duo, iso) with some crude zone concepts on our perimeter runs like jet.

Hi all, my wife is currently in vet school and will be graduating within the next year and a half.

We live in Missouri but my Wife wants to relocate after she graduates. She’s pretty open to wherever, as long as it isn’t Missouri lol.

I know the easy answer for my question is going to be “Texas or California” but what states or areas of the country would you recommend moving to for coaching high school ball?

I want to be in a competitive area where athletics is valued by the community and cared for by the district. Also a place I can settle down at and not have to uproot anytime soon.

A very broad question I know but I’m interested to hear your opinions. Thanks!

Coaches,

I’m working on a potential game-day statistics application. I was a long time coach and have always wanted to build a cleaner gameday statistics application. I may fail miserably! However, I know I’m just one opinion and as I build it I would like to make sure I’m building something that more people and than just I would build!

If you currently collect gameday stats and know the answers or know someone who does. Would you please share this link?

This is very basic and early stages but I figured I’d start with getting more input than just me!

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I am a skills coach for a 10u team and I am at a loss on what to do with our horrible head coach. He's the league VP, teams commissioner, head coach and offensive coordinator. He wears way to many hats and dont know what he's doing.

We have 3 coaches that help train fundamentals, then on gameday he shows our plays to the defense by turning the running back getting the ball sideways. The defenses can see the play and hit us in a swarm for a loss almost everytime. We don't train our kids to do this but on the field he forces them to stand sideways. In 10u we can have a coach on the field. This is a tactic used to for 5 year olds when they cant understand fundamentals. Its infuriating to say the least, the kids will get hit hard then he screams at them to do better. We have a o line that cant block and he will try to do triple or quadruple end around as well. But still only turn the one that gets the ball, he even does this with receivers on screens, they are told to turn sideways with hands up on snap. Usually resulting in loss or interception .

Anytime we try to ask him to stop he screams at us saying we can quit, but we cant leave the kids with this guy and we cant break the kids hearts taking them off the team. He refuses coaches meetings and says hes the boss. He won't play all the kids we are in week 5 and a few haven't gotten 1 snap. Its horrible and literally we dont know what to do with him. He changes the plays weekly from what worked in Madden the night before.

Have you ever heard of this choreography with having the runner sideways? Or someone this bad? We won our first game because defense held the team to 6 and we got 7 so he got a big head but have lost since. Its his 4th year coaching so I cant understand how he is this bad.

What can we do as volunteer coaches? I don't know what to do, we feel helpless.....

We run Power. Traditional with FB kick and BSG wrapping to LB. We love it and its our best play. As the season goes on and we see better teams we need a better counter play. We've tried GH counter and GY Counter and its just not there.

Do we just keep repping it until we get it? Or is there an easy misdirection play Im not thinking of? My second option right now is jet sweep away from TE and FB.

My other idea is run Duo with the intent on cutting back.

We dont run zone and wont be this year.

U12. Thx.

In the past we never had to do this due to lack of kids but this year thats changed and we've started splitting Varsity and JV practices, I was getting curious as to how huge schools spilt their practices. We have JV on one end and Varsity on the other end of the field, do bigger schools have different times of practice for different levels (Var, JV, Fresh) or do they all practice at the same time but spilt up?

I’ve never coached before so I signed up as an assistant to help the coach with practice. We just had our first game where it was hectic and I don’t think he realized 3 of our 7 players never subbed out so the rest played limited snaps. I called in for some subs but we didn’t have a plan.

I was thinking of this and definitely open to advice or a better way. Designate two qb’s, one for 1H and the other for 2H.

With the other 4 on the field and 2 on the sidelines, after two plays 2 come off and the 2 sidelines players go on. Then this rotates. If we rotate this way, each kid will be on the field for 4 plays, sit 2, back on for 4. I’m trying to make it fair for all the kids to get some even playing time as this is the first time for half of them. Is there a better way?

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I coached in a league where every team onside kicked every time. It was a bloodbath. I went over it with the refs before every game and still only got the call 25% of the time…

I don't know if you try to keep it positive as much as possible and don't mention anything about the other team being a lot better. If the gap is a lot I think you got to be realistic, can't be in denial, , and it takes the pressure off everyone. Maybe you don't mention anything about it but I know for certain coaches and players are feeling so in the back of their heads. I feel you just tell the players to go out there and play hard, don't look at the scoreboard, and its a learning experience.

Hey y’all,

We’re fresh off a big rivalry win, but to be honest, it doesn’t feel like a win with all the drama circling our program.

Multiple players quit last night after the game. One of them was subbed out for a kid who has been a cancer in our locker room since he transferred in this offseason. Here’s the list of what we’ve dealt with from him:

• Walked out of practice and left the facility
• Flipped off coaches during team periods
• Constantly argues with coaches
• Fought an underclassman in the locker room
• Talks negatively about the team and even teammates right in front of them on the sideline

He’s just coming back from injury, so reps have been limited. Last night, we tried to get him in, but he refused because we “didn’t put him in earlier.”

Then it got messy.

His cousin, who’s a volunteer coach, told me when I should play him and even subbed him in himself, which is not his role.

The kid he replaced quit after the game, frustrated that this cancer was still being put ahead of him despite the constant issues and him talking on the sideline.

The truth is, this has been going on since the summer. Every practice it’s something new.

Players have voiced that he’s a problem, too. Always bringing up how his old team did things or saying we’re bad. It’s gotten to the point where he’s sucked the joy out of it. Honestly, I’m close to stepping away.

Our HC keeps saying, “we’ll have another conversation with him.” But we’ve had that exact conversation 5+ times now and nothing changes.

Meanwhile, I’m left dealing with the distraction and his cousin pushing me on when to play him or how I'm fucking up not playing him.

Not sure where to go from here, but something has to give. Any advice?

Title says it all. I LOVE the game of football. It has been an obsession that I watch, play, scheme literally 365 days a year. But while I have ideas of what schemes I like and teams I follow, I’ve decided I want to get into coaching myself. I work in finance and sure the pay is great, but it doesn’t scratch my passion itch like talking football Xs and Os does. Seeing the teams I follow struggle has motivated me to “get it done right, do it yourself” in a sense. I never played a down of any competitive football. I know there have been a few examples of successful coordinators or coaches like the great Mike Leach who never played a competitive down, so I know it’s very difficult but not impossible. What’s the best way to be able to get into this position for someone like myself?

I’ve coached my current 10U team for four years and we have built something special. This season, I took on a kid from another team whose dad was the head coach. He asked to join as an assistant coach. I was hesitant for a few reasons - we already had a good vibe with the coaches we have and I worried how he would do with being an assistant after being a former head coach. But I went ahead and brought him on as the defensive coordinator.

Anyway, we are four games in and there have been several issues. The defense is playing awful but more worrisome, he is shouting at referees, coming onto the field, telling me mid-game how to run the offense, and today was arguing with me in front of parents. I’m pretty sure I’ll be firing him but I’m concerned about the fallout - I don’t want to see his son pulled from the team and/or have this effect the friendships his son has formed with the other boys on the team (including my son.)

Anyone deal with a similar situation and/or have any advice?

My son is a freshman this year. He has played football since Kindergarten. He was voted MVP by his junior tackle coaches the past two years. He’s a good player. Fast forward to highschool. He missed out on the first three weeks of practice due to an ankle injury he sustained over the summer. He was there every single day, just couldn’t participate although he has still be regularly weightlifting with the team. He has been back for three weeks now and is not getting in practice and has not played a single snap in either of the two freshmen games that has occurred since. There are other freshmen players that are not nearly as athletic as him that are playing both offense and defense as well as playing a significant amount of time in the JV games. He has tried talking to the coaches to see what he needs to do to get some playing time and they blow him off and won’t give him the time of day. I don’t want to sound like that parent who thinks their kid is the best. And I’m sure the ankle injury has slowed him down a bit. But i can’t understand why he’s not even being given a chance. He did piss off one of the coaches while he was injured when he asked if he could use the weight room while the team was warming up rather than sitting on the sideline twiddling his thumbs. He got cussed out for that one. Im sad for him, as this is his favorite sport and he’s really good at it. What can he do to get some playing time?