Recruiting the Next Wave: Building JV and Sub-Varsity Football in the Off-Season For most people, recruiting is something that happens at the college level. Scholarships. Highlight tapes. Transfer portals. Official
Series Overview In my experiences as both a high school football player and a coach, I have been involved with programs that landed on every part of the spectrum when
Protecting the QB: Diversifying Your Run (Pass) Game with Shovel Variations We’ve all been there. Some years you have a dual-threat QB who can tear a defense apart with his
This weekend was the Annual NYSHSFCA Clinic at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY, and once again the Association delivered a great lineup of speakers, including great Keynotes by Jeff
One of the hardest parts of coaching JV football isn’t Xs and Os. It isn’t roster numbers. It isn’t even time constraints. It’s engagement. JV football lives in a strange
I tweeted this earlier this week, and the more I sat with it, the more I realized how much it captured what I feel about coaching JV football: “JV football
It’s Clinic Season!!! Outside of the first day of double sessions, clinic season is my favorite time of the football year. The chance to listen to guys smarter than you,
Every offseason, we do the same thing as coaches. We grab the playbook, flip through the pages, and ask ourselves a dangerous question: “What should we add this year?” Or,
I started my coaching journey as a college student who just wanted an opportunity to coach football. I was fortunate enough to get an interview at the school in my
From Participation to Commitment: Building Real Buy-In at the JV Level JV and sub-varsity football live in a strange middle ground. Kids sign up, they get pads, they show up
