Creative Ways to Spice up Your Meetings and Practices (Part II)
By Tyler Fenwick, Head Coach Missouri University of Science and Technology “Roxanne” Another focus technique we used which was fun, yet a little more taxing was the “Simon Says” method to the song “Roxanne.” We played the song Roxanne in…
Creative Ways to Spice up Your Meetings and Practices (Part I)
By Tyler Fenwick, Head Coach Missouri University of Science and Technology As a staff, we continuously discuss how we can grab the focus and attention to our student athletes in our position meetings and practices. The daily position meetings…
THE PURPLE PACT PROGRAM (Part II)
With this amount of funding, Coach Marcucio knew there was only one thing to do and that was to use it for the benefit of the Westhill student-athletes (and eventually all student extracurricular activities and sports boys or girls)…
The Purple “PACT” (Players Academic Counseling and Tutoring Program – Part I)
An Introduction of the Formation of an Academic School Based Program for Student Athletes at Westhill High School (CT). It is based on the principals that were developed by:Dr. Al Petitpas of Springfield College and authored by Coach Frank Marcucio….
Q and A with Coach James Vint
Coach James Vint, an assistant coach at Estacado High School In Lubbock, Texas has authored a new book that is available in hard cover or paperback entitled, “Installing Explosive RPO Concepts Into Any Offense.” We recently completed a Q…
Engineering Your Culture: 5 Keys to Team Excellence
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 27 years of coaching and 8 different teams, someone is…
Stealing Reps, Utilizing Quality Coaches, 21st Century Reality
The following article was written by David Buchanan, a high school head coach for over 25 years and a frequent contributor to AFM. This excerpt is from his book, ‘Black Shoes and White Shoestrings.’ You can reach Coach Buchanan at…
In-Season Practice Plan (Part III)
Southwest Minn. State University In-Season Practice Plan (Part III) By Cory Sauter, Head Football Coach Penalty-Free Thursday We emphasize the Red Zone for our “No Sweat” Thursday practice. Everything is at half speed. To keep our player’s minds from wandering,…
Southwest Minnesota State University In-Season Practice Plan (Part II)
Southwest Minnesota State University In-Season Practice Plan (Part II) By Cory Sauter, Head Football Coach Positive Play Tuesday On Tuesday’s we emphasize 1st and 2nd downs. Essential they are the same down; we do not treat them differently. Our goal…
In-Season Practice Plan (Part I)
Southwest Minnesota State University In-Season Practice Plan (Part I) By Cory Sauter, Head Football Coach Every year I like to evaluate our weekly in-season practice plan. I want to make sure we are as efficient as possible with our time…