On this episode of The Coaching 101 Podcast, Kenny and Daniel are discussing building your program at all levels. Listen in for a “playbook” on how to get every player, coach, teacher, and administrator on your side as a coach, and how to get the community behind your program.

How do we build up our School Buy-in?

• Community events
  • Build an atmosphere around our program
  • Social media
  • Meet the “Enter Your Mascot Here”
    • Free to get in, take donations/ do fundraisers
    • Businesses that have donated to the program get a table to talk about their business with the community
  • Mom/Son date night
    • Sponsored by local businesses
    • Table games
    • Son seats the mom, serves her dinner, etc
  • Football 101 with parents
  • Father/Son Retreat
    • Bonding experiences
• Game themes 
  • Home games are themed
    • Military appreciation
    • Breast cancer awareness
    • Childhood cancer
    • Community support night
  • Students dress up each week
• T-shirts, groups of helpers
  • Shirts for each helper that lends a hand throughout the week/game
• Youth Football
  • Youth football camp

How to increase Administration and Teacher Buy-in?

• Disciplined team
  • The goal should be to benefit the player, period
  • Will do what they need to do, even if they don’t want to do it
• Locker room / facilities taken care of
  • Admin will be frustrated when you ask for things/money and the facilities look like a wreck
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• Go to events!
  • Choir, basketball, track meets, band, etc
  • Go to the ones that no one wants to go to
  • Be an active participant
• Teacher relationships
  • Build relationships ahead of time to stay ahead of the curve before absences/grades become an issue
  • Assist the teacher to form a relationship with the student, and yourself/ your staff
  • Honorary Captain

How do we increase our Coach Buy-in?

•  Organized - schedules/meetings
  • Let coaches know when they’re expected to be at the office
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• Learn to delegate
  • Match bad jobs with good jobs
  • Technology job picks platform, camera, tv, etc
  • Email announcements matched with social media
• Allow them to shine and grow
  • Match their taskings with their goals
    • Coaches who want to be HC, get huge administrative taskings
      • POs
      • Parent Meetings
      • Equipment meetings
    • Coaches who don’t want to move past assistant
      • Less “difficult” jobs
      • Jobs that don’t build HC skills
  • Set the right and left boundaries

How do we increase our Player Buy-in?

• Scheme must match talent
  • Find a way to hide a player’s weakness, and highlight his strengths
• “will you help me” - teach to lead

Daniel Chamberlain:

@CoachChamboOK

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chamberlainfootballconsulting.com

Kenny Simpson:

@FBCoachSimpson

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FBCoachSimpson.com