On today’s podcast, host Keith Grabowski is joined by Chris Monfiletto, TE’s Coach at Rice University. Coach came to Rice in 2019 after having spent the previous seven seasons as head coach at Kenyon College. At Kenyon, Monfiletto took what was a struggling program and turned them into a consistent winner. Coach joined the podcast today to talk about how the tight end position has evolved as well as how he recruits and molds each player into a specific tight end role.

Show Notes:

1:16 Coach’s Journey

3:24 Learning from your players

4:39 How coach developed his philosophies

6:13 How he turned around a program

8:20 Coach’s passion for the game

10:58 Finding kids who love the game

12:15 Piecing together different pieces from recruits to build the whole picture

13:29 Determining different roles for his TE’s

16:19 Coaching all the different skill sets of TE’s as well as fitting them into the gameplan

18:17 Streamlining how the players learn

20:08 How the wound up with a TE getting carries from the backfield

21:06 Coach’s contribution to the gameplan

23:32 “Program Guys”

24:34 How coach deals with success and failure

27:27 Coach’s talk at the Lauren’s First and Goal Clinic

29:03 Winning Edge

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