Product Description

The Football Coaching Bible features many of the game’s most successful coaches. Each shares the special insight, advice, and strategies they’ve used to field championship-winning teams season after season.

The 27 chapter contributing coaches span six decades of the sport and reach into every corner of the United States. The impressive list of contributors:

Joe Paterno

Bobby Bowden

Tom Osborne

Hayden Fry

Jim Young

Sonny Lubick

Phil Fulmer

Jerry Sandusky

Mike Bellotti

Dick Foster

Frosty Westering

Barry Alvarez

Grant Teaff

Mack Brown

Fisher DeBerry

Gene Stallings

Larry Kehres

George Curry

Jim Tressel

Bill Snyder

Bo Schembechler

R.C. Slocum

Lou Holtz

Joe Tiller

LaVell Edwards

Ken Sparks

Frank Beamer

They cover every aspect of the game: coaching principles, program building, player motivation, practice sessions, individual skills, team tactics, offensive and defensive play-calling, and performance evaluation.

Developed by the American Football Coaches Association, this coaching guide establishes a new standard of excellence in the sport.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59246 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
Since its establishment in 1922, the American Football Coaches Association has provided a forum for discussing and studying all matters pertaining to football and coaching. It also works to maintain the highest possible standards in football and the coaching profession. These efforts—first undertaken by founders Major Charles Daly, Alonzo Stagg, John Heisman, and others—have been instrumental in the AFCA’s becoming the effective and highly respected organization it is today.

The AFCA now has more than 10,000 members, including coaches from Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, and Russia. Through its publications and programs, the AFCA helps to ensure the integrity of the coaching profession and enhance the development of the game. It works closely with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the National Football League, the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame, Pop Warner, and other organizations involved in the game of football.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Read for the Beginning or Experienced Coach
The Football Coaching Bible brings together a collection of articles and speeches by successful coaches from all levels. Whether you are looking for guidance on how to teach leadership, how to build (or re-build) a program from the ground up, or some talk on X's and O's, this book has it covered. Bill Snyder's chapter is particularly great, and has helped me to apply focus to my life in areas other than coaching. His story at K State is amazing.

This book does help a bit with basic nomenclature for brand new coaches. However it mostly assumes a basic understanding of certain things. The beginning coach may have to do some digging to find out exactly what some of the terms mean.

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Some good info in this book, however each chapter is written from one coach's perspective (passing game, rush "D", etc....) I would have liked more info on each area of the game rather than a detailed perspective of one.

If you love football...
I am looking in to coaching for fun and this is a great book to have. There is a lot of coaching information and great football information in general.