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Dave Csiar
Member since 30th April 2007
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24th May 2007
The "Nasty" split is a small adjustment that can help your offense move the ball in games you are struggling with a strong defensive end.
I'm not quite sure how the "nasty" split got it's name or who invented it, but my guess is it was a frustrated de...
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21st May 2007
Little Known "Trick" for Your Offensive Line Scheme
Did you know you can have 10 players on the line of scrimmage?
Many youth football coaches do not know this, they mistakenly think you can only have 7 players on the line of scrimmage. The rules state ...
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21st May 2007
The key is using "wrist coaches" for your players.
Wrist Coaches are must for any team that is running a no- huddle offense. It's too hard and takes too much time away from your football practice to try and memorize a sequence of football plays or hand...
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21st May 2007
In youth football sometimes we do things for the long term benefit of the team that may have minimal short term benefits.
One of these things may be the trick plays we add to our football playbook near the end of every season. We will often put in a t...
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17th May 2007
Playing in Space is the key term.
We aren't talking about playing football on the moon, zero gravity would make us all have to rethink the game quite a bit.
"In Space" means playing with distance between your players and the other team. If your team i...
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15th May 2007
Many youth football assistant coaches out there have aspirations of becoming a head coach. They want to run their own offense, defense, special teams and want to see how their methods will pan out, there is nothing wrong with that. I've had about 14 assis...
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09th May 2007
Many youth football leagues do not allow recruiting of players, in other leagues it is needed for survival.
Here are some inexpensive "guerilla marketing" recruiting methods you can use:
Flyers to the Schools-( Chapter 4 of the book shows you how t...
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09th May 2007
The study I did in 2000 and 2001 of the best and worst teams in the country showed that on average the teams at the top of their respective leagues had "playbooks" that consisted of between 8 and 20 football plays. Even teams in the 13-14 age group that c...
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06th May 2007
"Who" to block is as or more important than "How" to block for most youth football teams.
Even the greatest block on the wrong player can result in football plays that go for losses.
On the other hand, many times even a poorly executed block on the...
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06th May 2007
The study I did in 2000 and 2001 of the best and worst teams in the country showed that on average the teams at the top of their respective leagues had "playbooks" that consisted of between 8 and 20 football plays. Even teams in the 13-14 age group that ...
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03rd May 2007
Many youth football coaches fear moving to the Single Wing Offense for a variety of reasons. Most I think do so because it is something new that they have not run before or maybe haven't seen on TV or in their youth football leagues.
There are countles...
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03rd May 2007
Playing "In Space" to Improve your Youth Football team:
We aren't talking about playing football on the moon, zero gravity would make us all have to rethink the game.
"In Space" means playing with distance between your players and the other team. If y...
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01st May 2007
Mouthpieces are a requirement for playing youth football. In most leagues it is a 15 yard penalty if the player is not wearing his mouthguard.
Why is the mouthguard so important and what kind of mouthguard should your players wear?
Mouthguards a...
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01st May 2007
We strive to make the game day a special time for the youth football player.
Some reasons we do:
1) It gives the players sense of accomplishment for consistently meeting the committment to attend football practice.
2) Helps in retention of players ...
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