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
  • Take the “Alphas” and put them in leadership and mold them
  • Give small tasks, then step them up and build them up
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• Servant leadership
  • Serve your players, that’s your job. Get your players from where they are to where they want to be
  • You’re a Coach (like an old school vehicle)

Daniel Chamberlain:

@CoachChamboOK

[email protected]

chamberlainfootballconsulting.com

Kenny Simpson:

@FBCoachSimpson

[email protected]

FBCoachSimpson.com

On the inaugural episode of the Coaching 101 Podcast, Kenny and Daniel introduce themselves and talk about their football journeys. Also, they discuss the purpose of the podcast, and what they hope the listeners get out of it.


Coach Simpson Introduction

• Family Bio / Background
  • Moved a lot as a youth (military) 
  • Learned from many coaches as an athlete
  • Harding U, graduate, met wife
  • 3 children
    • Avery
    • Braden
    • Bennett
• Coaching Background
  • 2 - JH HC Madison Academy (Huntsville, AL)
  • DC Alabama Christian Academy (, AL)
  • HC after old HC moved on
  • Batesville Southside
    • Worst school in AR
    • NO football culture
  • Searcy HC
    • Left to do FBCoachSimpson.com
  • Back to Southside (OC)
  • Back to being HC

• Business Background
  • 28 Books
  • Headsets
  • Materials produced during COVID

Coach Chamberlain Introduction

• Family Bio/ Military Background
• 3 years coaching
• DC/ Position/ Analyst
• Podcasting

Why are we here?

• Why are WE here?
• Purpose of the podcast
• What listeners can expect

Social Media

• Kenny Simpson
  • @fbcoachsimpson on twitter and Facebook
  • [email protected]
• Daniel Chamberlain
  • @CoachChamboOK on twitter
  • [email protected]

Daniel Chamberlain:

@CoachChamboOK

[email protected]

chamberlainfootballconsulting.com

Kenny Simpson:

@FBCoachSimpson

[email protected]

FBCoachSimpson.com