Five Keys to Team Excellence – Engineering Your Culture
Five Keys to Team Excellence – Engineering Your Culture By Ralph Isernia, Head Football Coach, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute I would like to thank AFM for inviting me to share an article with the readers. It is extremely humbling after…
3-3 Stack with a New Twist (Part II) – Archives
By Rick Streif, Head Coach Cathedral High School (IN) The next three positions are what make us different than most 3-3 teams. Our secondary plays a Cover 2 shell. The CBs alignment is based on formation. The CB will split…
3-3 Stack with a New Twist (Part I) – Archive
By Rick Streif, Head Coach Cathedral High School (IN) Nine years ago, we were looking for a way to best use our returning talent. We had been a 4-3 Cover 4 team that had played very aggressively with lots of…
Before the Whistle: Football Coaching 101 – Meet the Parents – Part III
Before the Whistle: Football Coaching 101, by Matt Kunz Matt Kunz, a former Notre Dame football player, is currently a business owner, City Councilman, author, and former non-profit president. Kunz is the author of Triumph! An Athlete’s Guide to…
Before the Whistle: Football Coaching 101 – Meet the Parents – Part II
Before the Whistle: Football Coaching 101, by Matt Kunz Matt Kunz, a former Notre Dame football player, is currently a business owner, City Councilman, author, and former non-profit president. Kunz is the author of Triumph! An Athlete’s Guide to…
Before the Whistle: Football Coaching 101 – Meet the Parents – Part I
Before the Whistle: Football Coaching 101, by Matt Kunz Matt Kunz, a former Notre Dame football player, is currently a business owner, City Councilman, author, and former non-profit president. Kunz is the author of Triumph! An Athlete’s Guide to…
From Worst to First (Part II)
From Worst to First (Part II) My first day on the job was March 7, 2016. The Rams had missed a lot of the recruiting season, but the incoming class wasn’t nearly as important as the culture of the…
From Worst to First (Part I)
From Worst to First (Part I) Imagine that you are hanging onto a rope over the edge of a cliff. Imagine that you look down and see a great chasm with certain death should you fall. Now look up and…
The RPO Offense
I’m currently a student assistant at Tyler Junior College located in East Texas. I started out coaching football at age 17 after my senior year of football was completed. My first student assistant job was at Stratford High School under…