Today on the Coach and Coordinator Podcast, we are joined by Kent State University's Offensive Coordinator, Andy Sowder. Coach Sowder arrived at Kent State after serving as the offensive coordinator at San Jose State and as an offensive quality control coach at the University of Texas. Tune in and learn how Coach Sowder approached his career path. Also learn how to instill a culture of becoming an alpha in your program, the details of game-planning on offense, and how to develop your back-ups.

2:37 Handling the lockdown

3:28 Analyzing this year's recruits

4:40 Getting into coaching

8:55 Lessons to become a better coach

11:09 Keeping things in perspective

13:07 Being the alpha

14:15 Becoming a winning program

18:06 Training away bad habits

19:48 Coaching tight ends and receivers

21:36 Game-planning for screen plays

24:37 Tendencies

25:09 Game planning in redzone and goal line

29:21 Creativity on defense

29:37 Perimeter blocking

31:24 Installation procedures

32:58 Developing backup players during the season

35:35 Keeping backups engaged

36:30 The winning edge

37:45 Recruiting areas

You can follow Coach Sowder on Twitter here: @CoachAndySowder

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