Maintaining Pre-Season Strength and Conditioning Levels During The Football Season
Maintaining strength and speed is every coach’s goal throughout the football season. It is imperative that coaches maintain their team’s strength and conditioning level throughout the season in order to be ready for that stretch championship run that all teams…
Breakaway – A Unique Approach to Camp
By Chad Miller, Running Backs Coach Northwestern College (MN) Why is that player putting peanut butter all over his chest? Why is the team playing paper, rock, scissors, and then cheering for the person that just beat them? Are those…
Passion and a Patch of Grass
Bill Russell Inside Linebackers Coach and Special Teams Coordinator Norwich University I have been fortunate and blessed to be involved in college football for the last twelve years of my life. Four of those years spent as a player, and…
The Illusion of Complexity: Using Simplicity and Aggressiveness to Manipulate Offenses
Modern football is not about lining up and relying purely on athleticism and technique to defeat opponents (not that it ever was just about that). Today’s offenses have numerous ways of capitalizing on just about any advantage given by a…
“Recruiting 2013 – The Summer Season”
Today, July 31, for all intents and purposes, is the last day of the summer recruiting season. August brings with it the start of actual practices for most of the high schools in the country and folks are getting geared…
Rob Taylor Talks to Washington Redskins Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach Chad Englehart
Chad Englehart begins his fourth season as assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Washington Redskins this fall. He previously was the strength and conditioning coach for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League. Englehart holds a Bachelor of…
Linebacker Keys in the Miami 4-3 Defense
By Joe Daniel. Defensive Coordinator and Offensive Line Coach, Prince George High School (VA) The Miami 4-3 Defense originated in the mid-1980s at the University of Miami. The original concept was designed to stop the Wishbone Option (Diagram1). The design…
High Percentage Route for Every Offense
By Gene Suhr, Retired Coach I would like to introduce you to a pass route that I had great success running in both high school and college. I started running the route late in my high school coaching career and…