Day: April 13, 2022

We have yet to be stopped very well, but there have been a team or two that slowed us down in a way most youth football coaches wouldn’t think of.

To answer this, all I can do is relate my direct experience. We have played teams over the last 6 seasons with every imaginable defense and stunt you could dream up in your wildest mad scientist lab. We are always the most filmed, most researched, most talked about team in the leagues we play in. It’s probably because of how different the offense is and how many points we put up each week.

We have even played the same team with the same group of coaches 3 years in a row. They put up a different defense and different set of stunts each year and we still came out on top each time, so the newness factor for our success may not be all what it’s cracked up to be.

Our parents have overheard opponent scouting coaches just throwing upแทงบอลออนไลน์ their hands and saying “No way we can stop this I don’t even know where the ball is.” There are other youth football coaches that have been very confident and said “All we have to do is X and we will shut them down.” X may stop one play but it doesn’t stop the entire offense or the adjustments detailed in the book. Some of the comments of the smug expert defensive coaches have been darn right funny and those are usually the teams we score 3 TDs on in the first quarter.

I have no problem with opposing coaches scouting us. I take it as a huge compliment that they think so highly of us that they would spend time studying our football team. I’m very friendly and joke around with these guys, I really appreciate their effort to understand our football plays and system.

There has not been a single type of defense or tactic that consistently gave our youth football team problems. There have been a few defenses that we love to see. we run through these like butter:

Do you want to make a difference when coaching Youth Football? If so take some pointers from the following true story.

My friend Don Berniard who is known by “Coach Q” by his players and friends, runs a youth football program in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I went down to help this team out in 2007 for a couple of days along with a newfound friend in Houston, Greg B. When I got to Baton Rouge I found a coach that was in this for all the right reasons, he didn’t have a kid playing and he had no aspirations of coaching at the “next level”. This was a man who saw a need in a very poor and hurting area. He saw football as a means to an end to reaching kids with his “believe and achieve message” along with an all important faith component.

Coach Q and His “Band of Brothers”

As we prepared for practice Coach “Q” and I picked up 8-9 kids in his SUV. We picked up kids from all over this decaying neighborhood from ramshackle apartments and falling down shacks. Don knew the name of every mom, dad, uncle, aunt, grandma and grandpa caring for these kids. We picked up some of the kids as they were just walking down the streets. Every player we picked up had a wide smile on his face, It seemed that every place we stopped, people knew Coach Q and his South Baton Rouge Jaguars. As each player got into the SUV, they looked me in the eyes, shook my hand and talked to me with a series of endlessเว็บบอล ดีที่สุด questions. They treated each other, the coaches and even the visitors with confidence and respect. I’m not sure greg and I have ever heard more “please” and “thank yous” in a 2 day period in our lives.

We practiced at their “field”, which was a patch of grass sitting beneath 2 huge Interstate overhead ramps. There were no bathrooms, very little grass and it was extremely loud with all the vehicles zooming past, just over our heads. To make a long story short, this was an extremely well disciplined and well-coached group of young men, They were extremely coachable, literally standing on edge and elbowing closer so they could hear every word. On day 2 I found they had retained every word from day 1 and were probably the most enthusiastic and hard working kids I’ve ever been around. At the end of the camp at least 15 of the kids came up to me and told me thanks for coming and I even got a few sweaty hugs from 3-4 others. I told the group that if any of them wanted to move to Nebraska, we would love to have them play for us, they were just “neat” kids. These kids reminded me so much of the inner-city kids I used to coach 6-11 years ago.

While the “social work” aspect of coaching inner-city kids can be a huge emotional and time consuming drain, the rewards and impact are huge. It is something I miss when seeing what guys like Don have been able to accomplish.

The Baton Rouge Jaguars was started from scratch by Don and they struggled when they first started, In 2007 all 4 teams went to the Single Wing offense and Wide Tackle 6 Defense and this year all 4 teams competed for league titles with one of them winning it all. They combined for a 26-5 record this season in a very competitive dog-eat-dog league.