A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: Willie Fritz
During Willie Fritz’s first pre-season camp at Sam Houston State in 2010, he handed each player a T-shirt with ‘Opportunity Is Now Here’ printed across the front. The Bearkats then completed a 6-5 season that fall. After attending the FCS…
SEASON FINALE ON FRIDAY
The Mansfield football team will play their final 2011 game this Friday night at 7 pm in Ithaca, NY when the Mounties visit the Big Red of Cornell. Cornell will have to contend with Mansfield’s triple option running scheme if…
FATAL PISTOL-FLEX ERRORS
Every offensive concept out there in the collegiate coaching world has its do’s and don’ts. The following are the top two fatal errors that coaching staffs make while running the Pistol-Flex offense. Error 1: trying to mix an extreme passing concept…
MANSFIELD DROPS SEASON OPENER TO CORNELL
The Mansfield University Sprint football team started the 2011 season on a sour note dropping a very closely contested game to Cornell 37-23. The Mounties got off to a great start as Freshman QB Mike Maniscalco took the ball off…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Steve Specht
When Steve Specht was a senior at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in 1985, one of the assistant coaches on the staff was Urban Meyer. More than 25 years later, Meyer has won two National Championships while at Florida…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Mike Drass
The motto of Wesley College, a small Division III school with an enrollment of 1,500 undergraduates, is ‘Great Things Await.’ That is certainly true when it comes to the Wesley football program. Head Coach Mike Drass has built the Wolverines…
A STATEMENT
I truly believe that football comes down to two things: blocking and tackling! Whichever team does better at both of these fundamentals, wins the game! Is is that simple folks. Picture in your mind any type of offensive or defensive…
BE A MASTER OF A FEW PLAYS
It is my belief that it is far better to teach your offensive players a very limited number of plays and have them all MASTER those few plays then it is to hand them a huge playbook and tell them…
WHY RUN THE PISTOL-FLEX? HERE ARE FIVE REASONS
1) On most run plays, the QB is able to “read” a defender instead of us having to block him. This is a tremendous advantage since the players who would normally have to block the read key defender, can now…
A Coach You’ve Probably Never Heard of: Bob Nielson
How about this for results – two NCAA Division II National Championships, four Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference titles, three perfect 11-0 seasons and a .790 winning percentage. This is what Bob Nielson, the head coach at the University of Minnesota-Duluth,…