Your kid decides to play football, you love football, so you decide to sign him up and volunteer as a coach. As luck would have it they need a head coach, so you are drafted into the head coach position for your 6 year old tackle team. You figure this will be easy as you played high school ball, intramural in college and nobody watches more football than you. You now have a chance to show all the “experts” on TV how dumb they are and how smart you are.
As the big day nears (first day of youth football practice) you have all your offensive and defensive plays ready to go. These plays cannot fail as we lost only 2 games in high school, your mind assures yourself. Three week into your season your team is unorganized, the kids are discouraged and the parents are climbing up your hind quarters. Sound familiar? You go home each night frustrated, scratching your head wondering what went wrong.
You have fallen victim to what over 90% of new coach fail to realize. This is youth football, sometimes referred to pee wee or midget football, not high school. To make matters worse you decided to teach systems designed for much older, experienced kids. You did not have the chance to mentor as an assistant and learn what it takes to have youth football success.
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