High School Football Coaches

Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything–including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood–leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak–they were the ultimate underdogs.

Whatever sport you coach, building a successful sports program can be an enormous, sometimes daunting, task filled with many responsibilities and demands. Questions and decisions wait around every corner, often pulling a coach away from long-term considerations. How can you build a program when daily challenges require your attention? In reality, those daily challenges form some of the building blocks and foundations to any program. As a coach, you have the opportunity every day to showcase your critical thinking, creativity, player-management skills, philosophy, integrity, and character ...

New York Times best-selling, award-winning historian S. C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how Hal Mumme and Mike Leach - two unknown coaches who revolutionized American football in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s - changed the way the game is played at every level, from high school to the NFL. Hal Mumme is one of a handful of authentic offensive geniuses in the history of American football. In 2015 ESPN Magazine, the nation's leading sports magazine, called him the single most influential football coach in the last quarter century.

*Second Edition with 20 new photos added* Rare pictures of Grambling's undefeated, untied, and unscored 1942 "Unteam" along with the 1955 undefeated team are highlighted in this second issue of "MY FRIEND EDDIE ROBINSON" Buck Godfrey gives a new take on a man whose vision, tenacity and honesty opened the door for many. The reader will meet Paul "Tank" Younger and James "Shank" Harris, pioneers in professional football. More importantly, he will meet the symbol of the "gorilla," the essence of the classic, the building of the brand and pure simplicity of a man whose favorite dessert is peach...

Outcoach With Data: The Modern Football Coach’s Secret Weapon By James Roden Data is no longer optional. It’s your new advantage. Football is changing. Championship teams aren’t just built in the weight room—they’re built in the film room, on the practice field, and inside spreadsheets. In today’s game, coaches who embrace analytics, technology, and smarter systems gain a serious edge over those who still rely on guesswork and tradition alone. Outcoach With Data is the ultimate guide for middle school, high school, and youth football coaches who want to gain that edge—without ...

In total, Coach Ken Purcell and Chris Doelle have been involved in Texas high school football for over 87 years!..with a unique insight into what make Texas high school football coaches so effective in positively affecting the lives of these kids. The impact they have, instills in their students a self-worth that makes all the difference in their adult lives. The knowledge included in this audiobook is applicable to any parent regardless of a child's interest in sports. These are life lessons - not football lessons.

A book geared toward high school football coaches, especially those aspiring to be head coaches. Details include topics head coaches deal with from booster clubs, off the field issues, player and assistant coach management, creating a vision and culture for your program, and how to interview for a head position. This book will go through most of the items that coaches become aware of only when they become a head high school football coach.

The conclusions drawn by analyzing statistics from college and professional football often do not translate to the high school game because the games are so different. This book puts those powerful statistical techniques for maximizing a team's chance of winning into the hands of high school coaches and fans. These techniques are illustrated using the Pulaski Academy Bruins as a case study. Techniques such as Expected Point Value and Points Per Possession analysis are demonstrated with examples. The authors explore the utility of onside kicks, 4th down decision making, and two point ...