Ten Tips to Help Every Youth Football Coach Be the Best They Can Be

By Harold “Bud” Boughton Senior Consultant and Assistant Coach, Franklin College     Two years ago I was asked to be a guest speaker at two USA Football Coaching Schools. I knew right away what I wanted to talk about. Drawing on my coaching experience at both the college and youth level, I created a presentation entitled, “Coaching is Teaching at its Best.” Essentially I came up with ten tips which I believe can help any youth football coach to be a more effective “teacher” of the game of football. Having received very positive feedback from many of the coaches in attendance at both coaching schools, I decided to write this article and provide these ten tips to an even larger audience. Interestingly, as I wrote the article, I realized that many of these ten tips could apply to coaching football at any level.   1.      Set Clear