Coach and Coordinator Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Ideas for Building Culture and Using a 'Loophole' in Play Action - Nate Milne, Head Coach, Muhlenberg College Feb 09, 2023

Show notes

Head Coach Nate Milne has led the Muhlenberg football program to unprecedented heights since taking over following the 2017 season.

Coach Milne has a record of 35-5 in his three seasons, leading the Mules to the Centennial Conference championship, the NCAA quarterfinals and a final ranking in the Division III top 10 all three years. Muhlenberg advanced to the national quarterfinals for the first time ever in 2018 and the NCAA semifinals for the first time in 2019. Milne was named Centennial Conference coach of the year all three seasons.

Show Notes:

Influences
What he learned in approach to recruiting
What his our niche? How do we find them? How do we land them?
Why play action pass is an important component in conflicting defenders
Having a play action pass for every run
Advantages of play action for protection
Keys to creating the structure
Play faster than you do in the run
Coaching point for the OL “The Soon to Be World Famous Freeze Technique”
OL loophole in the rules
Installing play action
Using “same as”
Being simple on a week-to-week basis
Trip to Europe to build the team
To develop as a young coach - coach more and coach other positions
The winning edge - you can outwork your opponent

The NYSHSFCA Channel on CoachTube:

https://coachtube.com/newyork?a=ddd391c93af2433281656b763

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Playing Fast, Physical, and Finishing - Jason Houghtaling, Offensive Line Coach, Tennessee Titans Feb 08, 2023

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Jason is a great example of that…he’s a great teacher. He’s working multiple schemes. He was a head coach…it was probably one of the best interviews I’ve had in 5 years.” - -Tennessee Titans Head Coach Mike Vrabel on hiring Jason Houghtaling as the new offensive line coach.

On today’s episode of the Coach and Coordinator podcast, host Keith Grabowski speaks with Jason Houghtaling (Hoss), who was the head coach at Wagner at the time of this recording. He had prior stops as Wagner’s offensive Coordinator, Cornell’s offensive coordinator, Hudson Valley Community College Head Coach, and began his coaching career at Milford Academy (NY). Coach Hoss joined the podcast today to talk about his transition to head coach at Wagner and how he builds his program, coaching the offensive line, and more.

Show Notes:

Where the name Coach Hoss comes from
When Hoss knew he wanted to be a coach
How much his o-line mentality played into his coaching
Transitioning from an assistant to Head Coach at the same school
What they build their program on
Building a staff that buys into the culture
Developing players on and off the field
What does Coach base his offense on
Hardest defense to play against
Developing his O-linemen
Winning Edge

Jason Houghtaling’s Teaching Wide Zone presentation from Lauren’s First and Goal:

https://coachtube.com/course/football/jason-houghtaling-outside-zone-techniques/17422897?a=ddd391c93af2433281656b763

Lauren’s First and Goal Virtual Clinic

lfgf2023.coachesclinic.com

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Attitude, Preparation, and Teaching - Michael Toerper, Head Coach, Ithaca College Feb 03, 2023

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On today's podcast, we sit down with Michael Toerper, head coach of Ithaca College. He discusses his start in coaching, influences, his pillars of coaching - attitude, prepartation, and teaching, and his passion for special teams. He also shares his keys to being able to have a successful year one as a head coach.

This was recorded at the New York State High School Football Association Clinic at Turning Stone Resort in Verona, New York.

Coach Toerper completed his first season as a head coach at Ithaca College. He was named as the 11th head coach of the Ithaca College football program on February 18, 2022.

In his first season as head coach in 2022, Toerper guided the Bombers to one of their most historic seasons in program history. The Bombers finished 12-1 and reached the NCAA Division III Quarterfinals. IC secured its first undefeated regular season since 1986 and claimed its first outright Liberty League title with a 31-28 win over Union. The regular season was capped off with a 34-17 win over Cortland in the 63rd Cortaca Jug Game at Yankee Stadium, which was filled by 40,232 fans. Toerper would go on to be named AFCA Region 1 Coach of the Year, as well as D3football.com Region 2 Coach of the Year and the Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year. Sixteen players were named All-Liberty League, including the Offensive (A.J. Wingfield), Defensive (Matt DeSimpliciis) and Special Teams (Nicholas Bahamonde) Players of the Year.

Toerper, who is no stranger to the IC program, served as the defensive coordinator for the Bombers from 2017-19. He then departed to become the safeties coach at Division I Holy Cross for the past two seasons and contributed to turning that Crusaders defense into one of the top units in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) in 2021.

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Easy Completions - The Coach's Role - Joe Davis, Head Coach, Western Illinois Feb 02, 2023

Show notes

Joe Davis is now the Head Coach for Western Illinois. This episode is a segment for his clinic talk at Lauren’s First and Goal.

The clinic benefits so many families who need help while their child is treated for cancer, and it also benefits pediatric brain tumor research.

Show Notes:

-Everyone runs the same stuff for the most part

-How can we do it better by focusing on details

-Common language

-Sinking towards mediocrity

-Mission statement for your room - OEP

-Sets a standard for the room and competition

-Operations

-Cadence and manipulate the snap count

-Efficiency

-Shooting for perfection and settling for excellence

-Production

-DSR Drive Success Rate

-Getting a young QB started -Qb coach needs to organize mind and sets the tempo

-QB Manual

-Meeting plans

-Great note-taking instead of playbooks

-Footwork is the clock

-Organized cut-ups

-The on field plan

-If you want to be a great thrower you have to throw

-Drills are based on two things pocket movement and ball location

-Miss outside and live for another day - miss inside and it’s going the other way

-All interior throws, numbers, and below

-Getting the quarterback going with easy completions

-minimal pre-snap recognition

-Half field or access reads

Related Episode:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/qb-development-efficient-game-planning-joe-davis-off-coord-at-the-university-of-albany-ny

Joe Davis “Easy Completions for Your QB” course:

https://coachtube.com/course/football/joe-davis-easy-completion-concepts-for-developing-young-quarterbacks/13522760?a=ddd391c93af2433281656b763

Joe Davis “All Position Screens” course:

https://coachtube.com/course/football/joe-davis-all-position-screen-game/11754424?a=ddd391c93af2433281656b763

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The Yearly Process of Putting Together an Offense - Nick Sheridan, OC/QB Coach, Alabama Feb 01, 2023

Show notes

Nick Sheridan reunited with Husky head coach Kalen DeBoer on the 2022 staff as Washington's tight ends coach. When DeBoer moved on to Alabama, Sheridan followed and became the Offensive Coordinator for the 2024 season.

Sheridan, who was offensive coordinator at Indiana the previous two seasons, worked as tight ends coach under DeBoer at Indiana in 2019, when DeBoer was in charge of the Hoosiers' offense.

A former walk-on quarterback, who eventually earned a scholarship, at Michigan (2006-2010), Sheridan began his college coaching career at Western Kentucky, first as a GA in 2011, then as quarterbacks coach the following year.

After stops at South Florida and Tennessee, he was hired as quarterbacks coach at Indiana in 2017, when he was named one of the top-30 coaches under the age of 30 by 247Sports.com. In 2019, with DeBoer as offensive coordinator, Sheridan coached the tight ends. On today’s podcast which is a segment from the IHSFCA Clinic, Coach Sheridan shares his process of putting together an offense.

Show Notes:

-What you do matters

-How you do it matters more

-Create the vision: what do you want to see on tape

-Sell the vision

-Create belief so the players bring it to life

-Expectations for staff and players

-High standards dictate the way you operate

-No excuses: Production vs. Performance

-Pygmalion effect: your beliefs impact your actions

-Have a strength coach mentality: get everyone as good as you can

-Importance of a common language: critically think about the words you use when trying to teach the game

-Base Fundamentals

-Communication is critical

-Simple is better

-Commit to what you want to get good at

-Scheme selection

-Become an expert at what you do

-Be unique and tough to defend

-Adversity and prosperity: go back to the process

Related Episode:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3RE5r0OPB3gZje7DAhclII?si=6T63AagZT0GQLKUiCTFOAA

The entire presentation on CoachTube:

https://coachtube.com/course/football/offensive-organization-qb-play/16253800?a=ddd391c93af2433281656b763

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Coaching Innovations - Tools to Help HS And College Coaches Win in Recruiting Jan 31, 2023

Show notes

On today’s episode, we focus on innovations in coaching that allow for coaches on both the college and high school side to provide verifiable data and measurables through technology and AI as well as being able to analyze and better determine the fit of a prospect in a program. On both the high school and college side, technology exists to help you better understand the talent in your pipeline.

While at AFCA, Keith walked around and took a look at some of the most innovative products in the market. He identified a dozen that help make a coach more efficient, enhance player development, and ultimately add to the win column.

We sat down with representatives from Catapult, Reel Analytics, and War Room to discuss the technology they developed.

Please note that none of these companies paid to be on the podcast. This was purely Keith's research and time spent with them to learn more about what they do. Some of these you may have heard of, and some are brand new to the market, but all are innovative in their approach to helping you as a coach.

All of them were asked four questions as you will hear:

1. How does this make me more efficient as a coach ?

2. How does this help me develop my players ?

3. How does this help us win ?

4. What’s the feature that coaches like the most?

The objective is that you get a feel for these companies and what they can do for you as a coach as well as your players to help create a better game.

Show Notes:

Catapult: Catapult has several products to provide coaches and programs solutions to build a better team. In this segment, former college coach and current Director of Scouting for the Carolinas, JP Gunter discusses their Thunder Cloud Recruit Service as well as the Catapult technology behind it.

https://www.catapultsports.com/sports/american-football

Twitter:

@CatapultSports

@CoachJPGunter

Reel Anayltics: Reel Analytics is Verified In_Game athleticism data powered by AI. We were joined by Cory Yates, Co-Founder and CEO of Reel Analytics. Reel Analytics’ proprietary IGA Score is a measure of in-game athleticism derived from position-specific athleticism metrics extracted by their tracking technology. To train their scoring model, they measured the in-game athleticism of over 15,000 college and NFL players for current and historical context. Each metric is weighted, contextualized by percentile rankings, and scored.

NFL scouts, NFL agents, and major college football programs integrate the IGA Score to add objectivity into their player evaluation process.

Download a free sample report from their website.

https://reel-analytics.net/

Twitter:

@RAanalytics

@CoryRAanalytics

War Room: We spent time with Moose Bingham, a former kicker for BYU and former college coach. He developed a solution that handles all aspects of developing a program as well as integrates with other software you may use.

WARROOM Is the all in one software that helps to take your team to the next level. After being used by Major D1 Universities for almost a decade they are bringing our product to the High School ranks and allowing coaches to do what they love and spend more time with the players and game plans. The software includes unique features for recruiting like the trip planner and Recon which scrapes information from the internet as well as social media and through algorithms develops a player profile to better understand that player’s character and make-up.

https://www.collegewarroom.com/

https://www.prepwarroom.com/

Twitter:

@WarRoom_1

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Twitter: @CoachKGrabowski

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Creating a Culture System - JP Nerbun, Leadership and Culture Consultant Jan 30, 2023

Show notes

J.P. Nerbun is the founder of TOC Culture System, a mentor, writer, coach, and sports consultant. He’s worked with numerous football teams in helping them install a culture system. Today he shares insight into some of the best practices in implementing a culture system, repeating buy-in, building relationships, doing accountability and discipline in a productive way, and player development plans.

Show Notes:

-Background

-Book

-Systems approach

-What drives the system

-Change starts with the coach working on himself/herself

-Establish, support and enforce the culture

-Culture is measured in two ways

-Decentralize command

-Establish connections and standards

-Goal is to have high character, intrisincally motivated individuals

-Tips on establishing and strengthening relationships with players

-Mike Abrashoff

-Listen first and speak last

-Empathic listening and intentional one on ones

-Leadership council with 1-4 ratio

-Delegating to the units

-Connecting team beyond position groups

-Check-ins and conversations

-Motivational interviewing

-Put the player in the driver seat for their development

-Developing engagement and buy-in

=Non-negotiables

-The standard review

-The player development plan

-The one-pager

-Google Doc

-Implementation intentions

-Best practices in dealing with discipline

-Fear-based approach doesn’t achieve long-term

- Too much permissiveness - empathy without accountability

-Consequence as alternative to punishment

-Practice is a “get to” not a “got to”

-Firm and demanding without being demeaning

-Logical consequences

-Competitive cauldron

-Time spent with New England Patriots - Their intentionality

-The Buffalo Bills - leadership council

-The Winning Edge

https://www.tocculture.com

Twitter: @jpnerbun

Related Episode:

It’s Your Ship - Leadership Lessons with Mike Abrashoff episode:

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/its-your-ship-leadership-lessons-from-mike-abrashoff-former-commander-of-the-uss-benfold

CoachTube Course:

Playing Time Systems, Competitive Cauldron, Captain’s Council

https://coachtube.com/users/thriveonchallenge?a=ddd391c93af2433281656b763

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Coaching Innovations - The Classroom - Efficient Workflow and Enhanced Player Development Jan 27, 2023

Show notes

On today’s episode which is the first of four in a series that we will share over the next two weeks, we focus on Coaching Innovations that help you teach your players in the classroom.

All of them were asked four questions as you will hear:

1. How does this make me more efficient as a coach

2. How does this help me develop my players

3. How does this help us win

4. What’s the feature that coaches like the most

The objective is that you get a feel for these companies and what they can do for you as a coach as well as your players to help create a better game.

Show Notes:

Pro Quick Draw - they create a more integrated workflow for the coach. PJ Katz, the Offensive Coordinator for Brookwood High School in Georgia, shares the benefits of Pro Quick Draw in this segment.

https://www.proquickdraw.com/

Twitter @PQDSystem

Go Army Edge - Brent Osbourne of Go Army Edge shares how the platform has evolved and what you can do with it for your position and units.

https://www.goarmyedge.com/

Twitter: @GoArmyEdge

Just Play Sports - Co-founder Austin Barone joins us to share the features of Just Play, a platform that integrates many aspects of a coach's workflow to create a teaching platform that enhances player learning.

https://justplaysolutions.com/football/

Twitter: @justplayfb

Optimum Grading - Developed during the pandemic by then University of Illinois director of analytics and football technology Kingsley Osei. His innovative platform grew out of his understanding of the game and creating a better solution for grading that brings so much more to the player development side of grading. Here’s our conversation with Kingsley.

https://optimumgrading.com/

Twitter: @OGrading

https://coachandcoordinator.com/

Twitter: @CoachKGrabowski

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Branding and Building Identity Within a Culture - John Weaver & John Torrey, The Culture Classroom Jan 25, 2023

Show notes

On today's podcast, we discuss building a brand and identity for your units within the bigger umbrella of culture within a program.

John Weaver is the Receivers Coach, Head Track Coach, and Director of Athletic Advancement at Madison Ridgeland Academy (MRA) in Mississippi. Coach has won State Championships in both football & track. He has created some excellent courses on CoachTube. He is Co-Host of the Culture Classroom Podcast with John Torrey, a former NFL, and College coach and currently running back and head wrestling coach and author of "More than the Game"

Show Notes:

-Having a strong brand starts with the culture

-Culture can’t be replicated

-Culture is about taking care of people

-The word “intentional” is overused and underutilized

-You can’t fake it. It has to be who you are

-Coaching is not a copy-past function

-When getting a great idea - how can I make it fit my coaching?

-John Madden

-Build on the things that stick

-If you find an idea you like, explore it and find more like it

-Start small

-Know your how and your why

-Culture isn’t soft

-HTHL high truth and high love

-The head coach sets the culture but you own a piece of it

-Put your unique fingerprint on it

-The subculture builds identity in a part of the bigger culture

-You are the head coach of your position group

-Branding is your style of how you are living the culture

-Bronco Mendenhall

-Dealing with internal conflict inside the culture

-your identity has to be exclusive

-Identity cannot become a counterculture

-Every year that team has a unique way of presenting itself within the culture

-“ARB” - The Air Raid Brigade - developing a group identity

-Core values - LED

-There are times for tough love and yelling

-You have to meet the standards

-Coaching points on creating identity and branding

-Purple cows

-Evolution is essential for any kind of strength in your program

-When you find something that works, it’s easier to find what’s next

-Find advice and perspective from those outside your organization

-Bum Phillips - “Bitching isn’t coaching”

-Four years for forty years

-When you get into coaching, it’s not about you anymore

-Randy Jackson - “The easiest part is putting the whistle around your neck”

-Your identity comes from who you are, not what you do

-The experience you create for someone is your culture

-Your coaching should be done in a way that doesn’t become white noise

-It’s ok to listen

-You don’t always have to have the last word

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/culture-classroom/id1449070037

Angus Reid - Thank You, Coach

https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/thank-you-coach-angus-reid-1

Follow Coach on Twitter @mistertorrey

Follow Coach on Twitter @CoachWeaverMRA

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Using Data to Enhance Your Coaching - Kratik Malhotra, Director of Sports Science & Analytics, Texas A&M Jan 23, 2023

Show notes

Kratik Malhotra is the director of sports science and analytics for the Texas A&M football team. He has a diverse background in artificial intelligence, sports analytics and sports science.

Malhotra has been an integral part of Jimbo Fisher’s staff since 2013, leading Florida State’s sports science testing, research and implementation.

After moving to the United States and graduating with a master’s in sport management from Florida State in 2012, Malhotra worked with the NFL and NBA combine programs at IMG Academy and consulted a number of NFL, NBA and MLS teams during his stint with STATSports Technolgies.

He sat down with at the Catapult Sports Coaches Lounge to share insight into what data has to offer coaches to improve their approach to how they develop athletes.

Show Notes:

-His start in football

-Getting to Florida state with Jimbo Fischer and a National Championship

-Player load and fatigue

-Building a team with data

-Developing scheme by better understanding what you have via data

-Coaches using data to their advantage

-Working together and getting on the same page

-What coaches look for

-Developing substitution plans

-Dalvin Cook

-Trust that this will help me be successful