An absence of discipline does more to undermine your team than anything your opponent does.

John Harbaugh: “If you’re a position coach, individual period is your time to shine.” No long lines. Get players reps. Work on what matters. Build drills around the skills your players will actually need on game day. Be thoughtful. Be creative. Be imaginative. @HarbaughCoach

The Butkus Foundation has announced their ‘26 watch list, recognizing 51 of the top HS LBs. The list honors Butkus’ No. 51 jersey & recognizes the toughness, instincts, leadership, competitiveness, football character, & linebacking skill that defined him. Congrats, @IsaiahLeilua!

@KalebAiava out of @ServiteFootball

Rick Garretson an alumni of Anaheim Servite Hs has come home as Head Coach after a very successful stint coaching Chandler HS in Arizona. The cupboard isn’t bare he’s got some big-time players waiting at Servite. I was super impressed with the talent in the Trinity league.

I'm an honest fella. If you've been following me for more than a few months, you know that! I was disappointed in the turnout today at @SCFCA_. Coaches had a chance to hear from Matt Logan, Rick Garretson, and about 5 coaches who sit on the CIFSS Coaches Advisory Committee. We discussed the playoff format, and much more during that session. I know that clinic attendance is way down everywhere: AFCA was down big time this year, Glazier is down, this one was down. Maybe I'm just old school. But when I was a coach, I would pay about $300 to see Matt Logan speak for 90 minutes!! You could have done it for $52, and received $1 million liability policy today! There is something to be said for spending a day, or even 5-6 hours around a bunch of coaches. Even if you don't get something from a clinic speaker, you can get a whole lot from the brotherhood, and just talking shop with coaches. I wish more coaches took an active role in this profession as professionals. Coaches will jump and down to whine and complain about: 1. Playoff system 2. How they're treated by admin 3. Parents 4. Working conditions 5. Their pay But folks listen: until we take the profession more seriously, until we show up to events like today as an association of coaches, we will be on islands. I spent 3 years as the President of California Coaches Association. Happy to report we grew the association by 20% during those 3 years, and increased corporate sponsorships by about 300%! But still, we only had about 1,200 coaches FROM all over California, from ALL sports as a part of the association. Coaches will NEVER make a splash of noice with districts, with lawmakers in CA, without unifying and coming together. I'm passionate about this. When the state was trying to ban youth tackle football, I played a key role in bringing together a team of youth football leaders who led that fight. And played a role in doing so as well. It took WORK!! Hours and hours, days and days of selfless people who only spent their OWN money to fight that thing!! I leaned so much through that process about unifying and motivating others to fight against the government at a time I strongly believed in. Our association need to get stronger. The group of leaders leading SCFCA right now have never worked as hard to move the movement forward!! We need to follow their lead as coaches, if we care about the future of this profession. I strongly believe this.