Building a Successful Football Program From the Ground Up

The prospect of building a football program is an exciting challenge for any head coach of any experience level. There is no all-encompassing manual instructing a coach how to build a program. No one can wave a magic wand and turn a program into a success over night. The construction project will take time. It could take one season or several seasons to see significant progress. Building a football program is much like building a house - you must start from the ground up and build a solid foundation and build from there. The foundation of a football program is whatever the head coach creates, cultivates, and grows. It starts from the top and filters down from there into every aspect of the program. When a coach takes over a program, whether it is a new program, a struggling program, or even a strong program, he immediately has the opportunity to start building the foundation of the