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1st Contact Day for New and Flag Players during the Youth Football Tryouts
As a youth football coach, your responsibility is to look out for all of the players during the youth football tryouts. It amazes me how many parents still make their kids play football when the kid clearly has no desire to play. There is soccer, basketball and many other non-collision sports you can place your child. Regardless of the reason why it is your responsibility to make sure all new players and flag players joining tackle football for the first time get the proper additional instruction, attention and care they need.
During the youth football tryouts, I split the team into groups making sure that on contact days the players are in the appropriate groups by experience. The new and flag players start out together. It is easy to move the player who excels at contact up a level. If continues to succeed there then move him to the stud group.
More important is making sure that the players that are struggling or afraid of contact are not forced into doing anything. You do not want any player participating in any drills where he may get hurt.
I do not now, never have and never will believe in the “military” approach to coaching youth football. Nothing turns my stomach quicker than watching some goon scream and yell, antagonizing players into “hitting harder”. There should be a law against these brainless idiots.
If you are coaching a young youth football team there will probably be many parents around the practice. If the player feels the need to go by his parents, let him go. These are youth football tryouts and you want to make sure each player is placed at their appropriate skill level.
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