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Coaching Youth Football (Baffled Parent's Guides)

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I've been coaching now for a couple of seasons and ran across this book. I decided to buy it, and a few others to add to my library. I feel like as a coach you can never learn too much, and this one seemed interesting.

I bought 4 books that day, but read this one first. I should have read it last because it made the other 3 look and sound retarded. Worst yet, it made me look stupid for buying them. The information provided in this book was absolutely great and very instructive. It really starts you off from the absolute basics of coaching, which can come across as a little condescending if you know anything about football. But quickly takes off into a world of information, some which you probably already knew but forgot over time.

It literally takes you by the hand and walks you through the process of getting through an entire season, from the first practice, how to handle parents, through team meetings, right into the seasons games. I highly recommend any coach that is working with youth teams (Jr. High and below) to take a look at this gem and get as much as they can from it.

This is an okay book, but the first half of this already thin ( about 120 pages 10"x7") book is just about something most guys who watch or have played football will already know. How wide is the field? How long is it? What's an even versus an odd defense? And so on.

The second half is very dilute, which is the real meat of coaching football. If you are an absolute novice, then buy this book. If you can get it free somewhere or very inexpensive, then it's worth a quick glance, but it is not a book you go back to over and over after the first reading, in my opinion.

Good luck to you coaches ... and remember the priority:

1. Children Safety

2. Build character

3. Win football games within spirit and letter of rules

This is my first year coaching and I found my knowledge of the game,and conditioning and prep drills lacking. This book may be too simple for those that have played the game a lot and are more than arm-chair quarterbacks.

I found the breakdown of practice sessions helpful because they stressed the different areas of the game but kept the pace moving to help keep the kids from getting bored.

This does not contain a playbook and if you are looking for this you might be disappointed.

I recently purched this book online. Something that I normally would not do, but decided what the heck. The book is a great addition to any beginning coaches library, The cost was cheap, shipping was more than the book. The real problem lies in the condition of the book. I realize that I bought a used book, but when the book arrived it was like someone had spilled coffee or somethig on it and most of the pages were stuck together on the outside egde. I just thik that if you are selling something it should be in reasonable condition. The consumer should not have to pry the pages apart.Coaching Youth Football (Baffled Parent's Guides)

Well written. Easy to understand. Good remainder for coaches who forget who they are coaching for and why they are coaching youth football.

Good reading for any coach just starting or who have just a couple of years under their belt

For a coach, the first 3 chapters were not needed. The rest of the book provided great insight and help with the game.

Cleary, this is a very, very well written opus of educational technique geared toward a very, very special American pasttime: football.

Using very, very easy to understand terminology, any parent interested in becoming a very, very special component of their child's life should read this book. I keep my guide in a very, very special place... next to my Bible.

It's a very, very special gift for coaches at all levels: from novices to mediocre/middling collegiate coaches at a highly respected national university located in Syracuse, NY (name withheld to protect the innocent). It's the kind of gift you'd like to put in a little box and put a very, very special bow on the top and open it up at a very, very special time.

From coaching special teams, to underwhelming secondary play, to a complex offense which is too difficult for its own good, Coach Pasqualoni leaves no stone unturned on how to become an integral part of a football teams success and more prominently its failure.

Most importantly, the very, very special feature on how to not fire your assistant coaches when they fail to achieve satisfactory/mandatory results will charm the soul and question the logic of common intellect.

I would rush out today and buy as many of these very, very special books as I could possibly squander my money on.