Player Development: Train With Your School

In this day and age, no football coach would dispute the importance of year round weight training. I think we established that in last week’s article and it was promised that this week we would answer the following questions.  What about the multi sport athlete?...

Player Development: The Big Three Lifts

We all know the importance of a sound, year round weight training program. In fact, would I be fair in saying that outside of practice, weight training is the most important ingredient in the development of a football player? It’s the basic that all development...

The 427 Award

We here at Chiefpigskin understand just how important, how vital, top notch assistant coaches are to your football program and we want to recognize those guys. That’s why we have initiated the 427 Award. Why 427?  If the Head Coach is the Driver, then the...

Great Assistants – Worth Their Weight In Gold!

I was so excited to have my first teaching job and especially my first coaching job. I was to be an assistant freshman wrestling coach. Yes, I wanted to be an assistant in football too, but there were no openings. Football would come in my third year of teaching. For...

Player Development: Multi Sports

Last week we started our series on player development and focused on testing, evaluation, and goal setting. We know there’s a lot of ways to help develop football players and we will certainly talk about those methods. But you have to understand, I’m an...