Auburn Football: A Complete Turnaround
Auburn Football: A Complete Turnaround Going from 0-39 to 3 straight winning seasons including 3 straight playoff appearance and 2 playoff victories By Jack Tuner, Head Coach Auburn High School (VA) In 2012 I had the privilege of meeting Carl…
High School Free Agency Market – Destroying Fundamental Traits
My name is Tom Flynn and I am a recent Hall of Fame Inductee to the Palm Beach County Florida Sports Hall of Fame; a former member of the 1977 National Championship Notre Dame Football Team; a Free Agent Rookie,…
Beyond The Scoreboard – Hold the Mayo
Beyond The Scoreboard Hold the Mayo By Eddie Fields, Teacher and Coach Space Coast High School, Cocoa, FL I love cheeseburgers…irrationally love the things. The best one I ever had came from a Mexican joint in Fayetteville, North Carolina. When…
Beyond the Scoreboard – Sac Bunt, Sac Fly, Sac Apply
By Eddie Fields, Teacher and Coach Space Coast high School (FL) With a runner on first and second with no outs I looked across the diamond to see the signs our third base coach was giving to our hitter. The…
Building Championship-Level Football Players (Part II)
By CJ Richardson, M.Ed., M.A., CSCS, USAW-1 Director of Sports Performance & Assistant Football Coach Sul Ross State University Build Psychological Toughness You cannot separate the physical aspect of performance from the mental. The elite performers master the art of…
Building Championship-Level Football Players (Part I)
By CJ Richardson, M.Ed., M.A., CSCS, USAW-1 Director of Sports Performance & Assistant Football Coach Sul Ross State University Every football strength and conditioning coach has similar goals during the off-season program. No matter whom you ask, the priorities are…
Tony Dungy, Chuck Noll, and Bill Belichick
This article is excerpted from ‘Black Shoes and White Shoestrings’ by David Buchanan, a frequent contributor to AFM and AmericanFootballMonthly.com. As a football coach, Coach Tony Dungy stresses the concept that the key to post season success is to continue…
Beyond the Scoreboard-What Football Means to Me: Win or Lose : The Hard Way
By Eddie Fields, Coach and Teacher Space Coast High School (FL) The other day my son was horsing around on our stairs. My wife, nervous, told him to get down before he hurt himself. He immediately said “Dad lets…
View from the O-Line: Football According to NFL Offensive Linemen – Displacing Bodies
Displacing Bodies MY PLAYING CAREER was drawing to a close. I hadn’t entertained any notion I’d go into coaching. My career had been great until 1970. In 1969 Tiger Johnson left for the Bengals. His replacement, Ernie Zwahlen, started changing…
Looking For A Better Way To Grade Your WR’s?
If you are a coach that grades your WR’s with a simple (+) or a (-) for each play during a game you are not alone. For years I graded my position group this way as that was how I…