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Many youth teams only start out with 3 coaches. Our staff only starts with 3-4 coaches every year. You need to build your staff early.

Challenge:You usually get fathers of your kids to help but you don’t know who your kids are until the draft.

Solution: Grab the best kid/dad combo who will be playing at your competition level. It pays if the dad has had some coaching experience although it does not need to be in football. Train them prior to the season. This will give you a leg up on getting the right players and getting coaches in place early. Most good organizations will allow a coach to stay with someone who is training them.

Your offense and defense (Your plan) should be clearly stated and taught to the coaches as early as possible. If you do not have your plan in writing or do not have a playbook with plays and drills, use these. Arm each coach with a book and have a book club. Take one chapter at a time and study it. Trust me, by the time you get to the season, you will be miles ahead of other teams.

Recruit dads from the hill. Most of them have played football but they do not know what to do or they feel like they are intruding. Arm them with this book and tell them to specialize in certain drills and player responsibilities. The more you can get someone else to do the more chance you have of managing the process.

If you only have 3 coaches, then each of you takes a position group on offense and one on defense;

Offense:

 Backs- Should be your offensive coordinator

 Linemen- Should be most experienced coach

 Head coach swings between two groups.

Each coach should have drills they are proficient at so they can run them correctly in practice. Do not have too many drills. Run a few drills perfectly.

Defense:

 D line- Run the box drill until you bleed. This is the core of D line work

 Linebackers and ends- We have drills that help contain sweeps and shut down running lanes

 D backs-Many levels may not need too much work on pass protection so fold the players into the linebacker/end containment drills. See: “Defending the Sweep”

Get your more trusted coach to learn the rules and call the plays. Head coaches should not be calling plays. It turns them into coaches not managers. As your OC is calling the plays, you have a long checklist you will learn about in chapters about Game Preperation and Game Management.