Coach Campbell and any others

PLEASE GO SEE THE HEAD COACH AT YOUR HIGH SCHOOL AND ASK HIM WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO TO HELP THE FOOTBALL PROGRAM FROM THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. sorry to capitalize everything. but in my opinion that is the area that gets overlooked too much. i coach at a place where the junior high ( minus one guy who does look to us for input ) wants nothing to do with our program. we have fought tooth and toe nail with them about things. it is detrimental for the program for the junior high to run something that the high school doesn't. that means these kids have wasted two to three years of football before they get to the high school. they have to learn all over again.
it seems that you are a good coach. in my opinion that is where you need some of your best coaches. it can make or break a football program. go to your high schools head coach and ask him for: individual drills for each position ( same ones he uses ), base offensive plays and formations, base defensive front and coverage, use the same terminology, ask him for his staff to give your staff a coaching clinic each year before the season starts, help break down film on Saturdays or come in on Sundays and listen in on game plan meetings( learn why they do what they do against certain off. and def. ), volunteer to help during the games on friday nite doing what ever they need, attend clinics with them during the winter, come in and help coach a position during the early August practices before your practices start, ...etc. be eager to learn and listen.
sorry to ramble, but this is a sore subject with me. ( can you tell ) LOL

Coach K it is my believe as you hit upon that if you have the ability to have influnece over the intermediate schools that all of you get on the same page with each other. I don't believe that the lower level programs should be left alone to do what they want. As the head coach of my program I must invest the time and energy to get down and develop my lower level programs. Manageing time between my own program and the lower level takes alot of effort but this is effort that will bear fruit for the future. I feel if my lower level teams are going to get on board then I ust take the time to develop them as coaches. Players at any level can grasp what ever is thrown at them as long as you as coach can fix the disired resluts when it breaks down. Its good that the other JR. coacheed moved on that could of been a major problem. Coach CAmpbell