Today I’m with Kevin Swift who is the head football coach of the Gold Beach Panthers in Gold Beach, Oregon. Coach Swift has been coaching for many years and has a passion for not only developing players, but coaches too. You can connect with him on Twitter @kdawgswift.

Host a Spring Kickoff event! It’s a simple idea that requires a little planning and organization and will have a big pay off! Members of the Culture Coordinator community have exclusive access to all the details on how to host a Spring Kickoff event in an easy to download and print PDF. Not a member?...Read More

Darrick Ware is the Offensive Coordinator and Assistant Head Coach at Princeton High School in Texas. He is also the co-creator of a character curriculum called A Football Journey. In my conversation with Coach Ware we talk about the curriculum, how to install the curriculum into your program, and lot of other topics as well.

Earlier in the week I tweeted out this tweet: Never punish players with conditioning. Why? Because conditioning is a key part of being the best player you can be. Why would you program a player to view an aspect of getting better as a punishment? — CultureCoordinator (@CultureCoord) February 5, 2018 It created lots of...Read More

Coach Chris Fisher coaches at Ridgepoint High School in Texas, but he is probably best known for hosting #TXHSFBCHAT on Twitter. You can access the chat’s website here and connect with Coach Fisher on Twitter here.   Subscribe to our mailing list Join the Movement!

In this episode of the Culture Coordinator Podcast, I talk about coaching the generation that I can “Generation Why?” Why do I call them that? Because they always want to know the why behind the what and the how. They are motivated by the why and they won’t do the what or the how if...Read More

Coach Nick Codutti is the assistant head coach, offensive coordinator, and strength and conditioning coordinator at Tomball High School in Texas. Get ready to get fired up and ready to sell why you do what you do to your players. “Sell yourself” and always teach your “why” in everything you do is the message that will...Read More

In his book “To Sell Is Human” Daniel Pink outlines a key concept he calls information symmetry to help describe why the information age has made a salesperson out of all of us. In this podcast and the corresponding article, I add a similar idea that I am calling opportunity symmetry to Pinks information symmetry....Read More

Coach Hines got a unique start to coaching when he and a buddy decided to end their collegiate football careers early and started coaching a Special Olympics flag football team. Coach Hines, who has been an elementary teacher throughout his career, then went on to be the head coach of a freshmen team and has...Read More

Welcome to the Culture Coordinator Podcast. This is episode 001. The best place to start when thinking about how to coordinate your program’s culture is to ask “What is culture?”, right? As Lee Corso would say, “Not so fast my friend.” According to Brian Kight, there’s a far better question we should all be asking...Read More