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It is always best to start at the begining. No team, at any level, in any sport, can achieve long-term success unless it has a solid foundation from an organization with clear rules and support systems that allow its teams to evolve and flourish.

I was LUCKY enough to have been born into one of this country’s premier youth football organizations: Vienna Youth Inc. At its inception, V.Y.I. consisted of a football coach, a corporate CEO, a financial guy, a sporting goods guy, 10 “football moms” and a ton of Vienna parents who wanted football in our town. It has evolved into an organization today with a National reputation.

They established By-laws, a corporate structure base, and support systems that work to run the organization effectively to this day:

 Ways and Means/Fundraising

 Ongoing training for coaches and team moms

 Top-of-the-line equipment and training on how to use it

 Solid communications of who is doing what

 A Coaches Selection Committee of one individual

 A Coaches Conduct Committee of one individual

 Experienced coaches mentoring younger coaches

 Inflow of former players becoming coaches

 Solid non-Dad coaches who lend long term stability to the organization

 End of season awards banquets for current players

 Hall of Fame banquet and scholarships recognizing former players and people who make the organization a success.

More operational information about VYI is covered at the Appendix of the book.