The Kentucky Derby Rule
"You don’t want your organization to be known as a jackass haven. You want only thoroughbreds on your team. Make sure you have the right horses running in your race."
The Cost of a Championship
In life or in football everything has a cost; the greater the value; the greater the cost. As the great, Russian philosopher Uri once said “The only free lunch is cheese in a mouse trap.” In football the ultimate prize…
Applying Good to Great Principles to Coaching
Good to Great by Jim Collins is one of the great business books ever penned. It’s been on the best seller list for what seems like forever. But, I believe it should also be recognized as one of the best…
Winning the Six Minute Games
By: Tony DeMeo Everybody has a system of Game-planning. Some coaches script the first 15 or 20 plays, some coaches like Paul Johnson wing it based on his experience. Coaches color code & highlighters became their life-blood. But how about…
How to Use Meaningful Stats to Improve Your Program
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about “meaningful stats” and what stats are important and which stats are ESPN stats or meaningless. How many times have you heard an announcer proclaim that Joe Blow just threw for a school…
Book Review – Resurrection : The Miracle Season That Saved Notre Dame Football
I stumbled upon this book by accident and I was very pleasantly surprised. I’ve always been a Notre Dame fan but never realized what a great job Ara Parseghian did in restoring The Fighting Irish back to football supremacy. Jim…
My Journey with Triple Option Football
The triple option has been a major part of my experience as a college football coach. As a head coach, it has always been the focal point of our attack. In 1975 as a first time head coach I installed…
The Wizard of Oz Rule of Leadership
The Wizard of Oz Rule “Oz never gave nothing to the Tin Man” America The Wizard of Oz is a famous movie that came out in 1939 starring Judy Garland. It was based on the novel The Wonderful Wizard of…