We Don’t Need No…Football Coaches
Beyond the Scoreboard: What Football Means to Me—Win or Lose We Don’t Need No…Football Coaches By Eddie Fields, Teacher and Coach, Space Coast High School, Cocoa, FL Each day after practice I hop into my 2007 Ford Focus and start…
Q and A with New Buena Vista University Head Coach Grant Mollring
Grant Mollring was hired to take over the BVU football program in December of 2016. Mollring arrived in Storm Lake after having served as the offensive coordinator at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska for three seasons, and before that was…
Building a Coaching Staff & Program: Technique Practice
Over the past few days I have talked to a couple of young head coaches who are looking to build a staff. It reminded me of the conversations I had with Chuck Smith, 25 years ago, when we were young…
Double Gun System
The “Double Gun System” is now available at AFMVideos.com. Written and compiled by youth coach Jay Stolfi, it is a complete and thorough offense that gives a coach everything he needs to be successful. The system is easily adaptable to…
Financing A Football Program: From Dysfunctional to Normal to Good
This article is excerpted from ‘Black Shoes and White Shoestrings’ by David Buchanan, a frequent contributor to AFM and AmericanFootballMonthly.com. When we got started at Mercer County in the spring of 2015, our financial situation was not very good. There…
Football According to NFL Offensive Linemen and an Uncommon Coach
“The View from the O-Line – Football According to NFL Offensive Linemen and an Uncommon Coach” by Howard Mudd and Richard Lister New Idea, Old Concept I WENT TO Seattle to work for head coach Jack Patera. The players weren’t…
Q & A with Sacred Heart University head Coach Mark Nofri
Mark Nofri just completed his fifth year as head coach at Sacred Heart University. An assistant on the staff for many years, Coach Nofri became interim head coach in 2012. After going 2-9 in his first season, SHU responded…
Hall of Fame Coach Lou Holtz: “In rebuilding a program, what are the most important aspects in which to focus?”
Hall of Fame Coach Lou Holtz: “In rebuilding a program, what are the most important aspects in which to focus?” Answer: In the very first meeting, I would tell them they had no choice in who became head coach because…
Interview With New Texas Wesleyan University Head Coach Joe Prud’homme (Part III)
#5 – Now let’s shift to January and February – what are your winter goals as you head into spring practice? Wrapping up the recruiting season and signing all of 2017 class is the #1 goal for January. There will…
Q and A with Kapolei High School (Hawaii) Head Coach Darren Hernandez (Part II)
Darren Hernandez is the head coach at Kapolei high School in Hawaii. Last fall, former College and NFL Head Coach June Jones was the offensive coordinator at Kapolei where the team finished 10-3 and #3 in the state. Under…