High school input

It is apparent that your Head Coach does not care much for the future of his program. Our youth program is lucky to have most of the support from our area high schools. We have one coach who does not fully understand our regards to safety of the children in the league. Safety is at the top of the list. Yet on the other side of the spectrum, we have the other coaches that are giving us 200% support including our very own Jerry Campbell.

One thing I suggest doing is show him the benefits of the program for his program. Coach Campbell(Victoria), Coach Reeve(Cuero), Coach Taylor(Hallettsville), and Coach Salmon(Gonzales) all understand that getting to know these kids and teaching them things such as terminology now makes their job much easier in the future. Our coach in our other town is coming around and I hope he sees that the future looks much brighter for his program because of our league.

Another thing is to show how your organization cares about the safety of the children. One thing we do is to train our coaches, not just letting them go out into wild, blue yonder of football on their own. We do a Coaches Clinic given by all of the supportive coaches in the league. Each town does their own clinic to better learn the proper techniques of how to coach these young future Friday-nighters.

Invite him to some games, practices, ask him to say just a few words. Really try to get him involved in the program. Our coaches love talking to younger kids and the younger kids love hearing from the high school coaches. In Victoria, Coach Campbell started the Viper's Den which is a section of the stadium where our boys and the Junior high boys sit to root on the home team. A franchise from our city is recognized and allowed to visit the locker room prior to game time. Believe it or not, the high schoolers love to chat with the little guys, they receive encouragement from their biggest fans, and they seem to play more fired up from it.

I realize you may be fighting an uphill battle, but really push to your coach that your organization is to the benefit of his. Whether or not he listens, that is up to him. I hope that you have the same kind of luck thay my organization has. Best of luck!

As of this year , there is a new head coach at the school, in the past years the H/C was not involved much
and the program was not as good as it could have been! All of the players that moved on to the high school level have gone on to other schools, this is a sad fact! These coaches dont see what is going on, we have graduated some outstanding players at the high school level, our youth program is a power house team in our leauge. A great deal of coaches have taken on jobs at other schools only because they dont get a chance at the school in question. We set up a coaching clinic last year with the H/C and his staff and at the last minute they backed out.