Welcome to The Football Booklist
Footballbooklist.com was a lost resource for coaches. We have brought the list of books back with the hope we can add to it and make it again a great resource. Coach Russell Farley, before he passed, was building a site to help fellow coach's. It is our hope that this site can continue on the vision he had.
Although we are not affiliated with footballbooklist.com we have made contact with Coach Farley's son Nick and with his blessing are able to put some of the content from that site up. If you wish to view footballbooklist.com before it went down check it out here.
Bear with us as the site is still a work in progress.
Featured Book
Since Coach Beckish was a contributer on the lost site we thought we would start out with one of his.
I Believe in Cream, Apples, and Football Thoughts for Coaches
By Coach Larry Beckish
The book contains the thoughts I learned about coaching for 30 years, coaching at Clemson, my alma mater Wichita State, East Carolina, Minnesota, Ole Miss, Duke, and S.C. State. And many of the most valuable lessons blessedly came to me from my two sons playing high school football and college football.
Chapter Examples
Chapter 2 – Loyalty, a critical aspect of coaching, Chapter 4 – Lesson Number One, a lesson learned from Clemsons legendary Coach Frank Howard, Chapter 14- Cream , explains the importance of cream in football, Chapter 15 – Apples, explains how apples affect football, Chapter 20 – Coach’em Like Your Son, A lesson from my sons, Chapter 36 – Lou and Practice – Coach Holtz’s practice thoughts, Chapter 41 – Leaders are Special – critical for youngsters
I Believe Thoughts Examples
Each chapter has several of my I Believe Thoughts
I Believe- A coach has to teach’em, praise’em, scold’em and love’em.
I Believe- A WINNER is a kid who works hard to be mentally and physically prepared to do the very best he can, win or lose.
The book is availible for $16.50 plus $3.50 SH Check payable to Coach Larry Beckish Send Check to – 2 Bostick Circle / Beaufort, SC 29902
Also compusports offers an E-book of "I Believe..." and offers Coach Beckish's other book on the Trap Option
Coach Beckish writes for the IslandPacket
Featured Video
Congratulations to St. Thomas Aquinas and Coach George Smith for their 6th State Championship and second National. Coach Smith retired after the season and will be missed. (Although he remains the schools athletic director) A big part of why St. Thomas is such a powerhouse is the fact that Coach Smith makes such an impact on lives of his players and the people around him (see this S.I. article). Coach Smith is succeeded by his defensive coordinator Coach Rocco Casullo, who is excided for the challenge to keep the momentum rolling by playing two top out of state teams, one being De La Salle of California.
Last Year St Thomas Aquinas played Camden, GA ... it was an exciting game and atmosphere.
Featured Website
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The guys from chiefpigskin.com e-mailed me about putting a link on the links page. I checked the site out and found some good free video's including drills, coaches explaining their X's & O's, and more. Looks like most are from the Illinois, but they are expanding. Definitely worth a look: chiefpigskin.com |
