Youth Football Skills & Drills
by Tom Bass
from International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
One of the NFL's leading coaches helps you improve your players' techniques and your team's performance
Building on the phenomenal success of the Baffled Parent's series, this comprehensive resource helps you expand your teaching skills and improve your players' performance and enjoyment. It's equally indispensable for parents thrust into coaching, former players taking on their first coaching assignments, and veteran coaches.
This great guide features:
- Tackling and catching drills for the entire team
- Group and team drills for offensive, defensive, and special team situations
- A unique system of paired drills and instruction for wide receivers and defensive backs; linemen and tight ends; and running backs and linebackers
- Photographs and diagrams that simplify the coaching process
The Football Coaching Bible
by American Football Coaches Association
from Human Kinetics Publishers
The Football Coaching Bible features many of the game's most successful coaches. Each shares the special insight, advice, and strategies they've used to field championship-winning teams season after season.
The 27 chapter contributing coaches span six decades of the sport and reach into every corner of the United States. The impressive list of contributors:
Joe Paterno
Bobby Bowden
Tom Osborne
Hayden Fry
Jim Young
Sonny Lubick
Phil Fulmer
Jerry Sandusky
Mike Bellotti
Dick Foster
Frosty Westering
Barry Alvarez
Grant Teaff
Mack Brown
Fisher DeBerry
Gene Stallings
Larry Kehres
George Curry
Jim Tressel
Bill Snyder
Bo Schembechler
R.C. Slocum
Lou Holtz
Joe Tiller
LaVell Edwards
Ken Sparks
Frank Beamer
They cover every aspect of the game: coaching principles, program building, player motivation, practice sessions, individual skills, team tactics, offensive and defensive play-calling, and performance evaluation.
Developed by the American Football Coaches Association, this coaching guide establishes a new standard of excellence in the sport.
Coaching Youth Football (Baffled Parent's Guides)
by Paul Pasqualoni
from International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Features the expertise of one of the nation's top-ranking college football coaches
Author Paul Pasqualoni, head coach at Syracuse University, is renowned for the hands-on style he developed over years of coaching football at all levels. Like all Baffled Parent's Guides, Coaching Youth Football takes an upbeat, inspirational approach to coaching, with an emphasis on creating a positive, supportive environment. Pasqualoni offers the fundamentals of motivating, controlling, and encouraging a disparate group of children of varying skills and dispositions. Readers learn the secrets of coaching football, including how to determine a child's position, how to teach blocking and tackling safely, and how to calm a player'sÂÂand parent'sÂÂfear of being hurt.
- Takes a drills-based approach to teaching basic skills
- Q&A sections provide solutions to problems most new coaches face
Coaching Football For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))
by The National Alliance of Youth Sports
from For Dummies
Few experiences are more rewarding than coaching a youth football team. Your journey through the season will be packed with moments that make you smile and that you and your players will remember for the rest of your lives. But what if you’ve never coached before?
No worries! Coaching Football For Dummies is the fun and easy way to tackle the basics of coaching youth football. This friendly guide shows you how to teach your players effectively, regardless of their age or skill level, and lead your team to victory—even if you’re a first-time coach. You’ll discover how to:
- Develop a coaching philosophy
- Teach football fundamentals
- Encourage good sportsmanship
- Improve your team’s skills
- Ensure safety on the field
- Communicate effectively with parents
Packed with valuable information on preparing your game plan before you even step on the field, this hands-on resource gives you expert guidance in building your coaching skills, from evaluating your players and running enjoyable, productive practices to working with all types of kids—uncoordinated, shy, highly talented—at once. You’ll find a variety of fun-filled drills for teaching everything from tackling and blocking to running and catching, as well as advanced drills to take your players’ skills up a notch. You’ll also see how to:
- Conduct a preseason parents’ meeting—an often overlooked aspect of coaching
- Gather the necessary gear and fit the equipment to your players
- Raise the level of play on offense, defense, and special teams
- Take steps to avoid injuries
- Deal with discipline issues and problem parents
- Make critical half-time adjustments
- Transition to coaching an All-Star Team
Complete with tips for working with parents, keeping your players healthy, and leading your team effectively on game days, Coaching Football For Dummies is all you need—besides a whistle and a clipboard—to navigate your players through a safe, fun, rewarding season!
Offensive Football Strategies
by American Football Coaches Association
from Human Kinetics Publishers
Use strategies straight from many of football's all-time greatest coaches! Offensive Football Strategies offers you special access to the sharpest football minds in the game's history. Pick and choose portions to use to optimize your game plan each season and each game.
Offensive Football Strategies is the most comprehensive and detailed book of its kind, containing the most popular and effective offensive philosophies, systems, formations, and plays over the past 40 years. This extensive collection includes 73 articles written by many of the greatest coaching strategists, including Bob Devaney, Bear Bryant, John McKay, Joe Paterno, Tom Osborne, Marv Levy, Hayden Fry, LaVell Edwards, Steve Spurrier, and many more.
The articles are organized into the following sections:
• Developing a System
• Attacking the Defense
• Building Backfield Excellence
• Running the Wing-T
• Running From the I
• Running the Wishbone
• Running the Veer
• Running an Option Offense
• Establishing a Passing Scheme
• Passing From Sets and Formations
• Keeping the Defense on Edge
• Incorporating Play-Action
• Creating Quality Quarterback Play
• Protecting the Passer
• Gaining Key Yardage
• Dominating the Red Zone
Developed in cooperation with the American Football Coaches Association, Offensive Football Strategies is loaded with more than 700 X-and-O diagrams. Whether you are seeking another option for your running or passing attack, or looking for that sure-fire scoring play in the red zone, this book offers a wealth of winning strategies for your game plan.
Defensive Football Strategies (American Football Coaches Association)
from Human Kinetics Publishers
Now you can build the kind of defense that wins championships with Defensive Football Strategies. This complete collection of tactics, teachings, and insights comes from many of the games best defensive minds from over the past 40 years.
Inside you'll find winning strategies from 90 top coaches, including Jerry Sandusky of Penn State, Charlie McBride of the University of Nebraska, R.C. Slocum of Texas A & M., and Bo Schembechler of the University of Michigan. With the help of more than 600 X-and-O diagrams, they show you how to counter common offensive formations and attacks, stop the running game and passing game, make down-and-distance decisions, and defend the goal line.
Defensive Football Strategies was developed in cooperation with the American Football Coaches Association. It's a one-of-a-kind resource for building a defense that can win it all.
A Fire to Win: The Life and Times of Woody Hayes
by John Lombardo
from St. Martin's Griffin
First and foremost, Woody Hayes was a coach---and his achievements are stunning. While at Ohio State, he won five national titles, and thirteen Big Ten Conference championships, made eight Rose Bowl appearances, and earned two national Coach of the Year awards. Moreover, Hayes’s lifetime coaching record, 238--72--10, puts him in the first rank of college coaching immortals. No other coach won more games in a shorter period.
Countless interviews of former players, assistant coaches, and friends shape the image of Hayes and his career, which spanned the mid-1940s to the late 1970s during a tremendous period of change in American society. A Fire to Win is an honest and revealing biography of Hayes, a man who ranks in the pantheon of football coaches.
---The Columbus Dispatch
“A sympathetic yet evenhanded examination of a modern coaching giant.”
---Booklist
“Insightful and comprehensive biography.”
---The New York Sun
“Contradictions, of course, are what make Hayes fascinating. And Lombardo delves into those contradictions with a cell biologist’s eye for detail and a landscape painter’s eye for perspective.”
---Chicago Tribune
The Softball Drill Book
from Human Kinetics Publishers
Packed with over 180 drills straight from the practice sessions of the game's most successful programs, The Softball Drill Book will add variety to your practices and precision to your game-day performances.
The comprehensive collection covers every aspect of the game. From warm-up to conditioning, throwing to hitting, bunting to base-running, you'll find drills to improve position skill and team execution - all from college coaches and programs that have won 13 NCAA Women's College World Series titles and dozens of NCAA regional tournament titles.
Contributors include:
- Cal State Fullerton head coach Michelle Gromacki
- Florida State associate head coach Louie Berndt
- Fresno State head coach Margie Wright
- Iowa associate head coach Michelle Venturella
- Long Beach State head coach Kim Sowder
- Louisiana State head coach Yvette Girouard
- Louisville associate head coach Carol Bruggeman
- Michigan head coach Carol Hutchins
- Mississippi State head coach Jay Miller
- Nebraska assistant coach Jennifer Ogee
- Notre Dame head coach Deanna Gumpf
- Oregon State head coach Kirk Walker
- UCLA head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez
- Washington head coach Heather Tarr
One look at the names above and it is clear, The Softball Drill Book is your blueprint for championship practices.
Football Drill Book
by Doug Mallory
from McGraw-Hill
Make the most of your practice time with the Football Drill Book! Doug Mallory, the defensive backs coach for the University of Maryland, has compiled a collection of drills that will help players in all positions develop and polish their abilities. This book includes chapters with selected drills for the following positions:
- Wide receivers
- Running backs
- Quarterbacks
- Offensive linemen
- Tight ends
- Defensive linemen
- Linebackers
- Centers
- Defensive backs
101 Offensive Line Drills
by Steve Loney
from Coaches Choice Books
An easy-to-understand and implement collection of line drills. Includes off-season developmental drills, agility, run-blocking, pass-protection, supplemental, team and group drills. Each drill is thoroughly diagrammed and illustrated.
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