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CAN’T HAVE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS WITHOUT GREAT PLAYERS (COACHING IS OVERRATED) It’s my opinion that coaching is overrated and talent is underrated. This phenomenon is largely due to coaches owning [...]

JOHN GAGLIARDI WAS FEEDING THE CATS BEFORE FEED THE CATS EXISTED Football has always had a strange relationship with suffering. If a little practice is good, more must be better. If running makes [...]

FEED THE LIONS: AUGUSTA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS On April 17th, 2026, Augusta Christian (Georgia) initiated one of the most ambitious educational projects I’ve seen in my 67 years tied to schools.  [...]

10 QUESTIONS ABOUT SBF (1) What the hell is Sprint-Based Football? Sprint-Based Football is a low-dosage approach to coaching football that prioritizes speed over endurance, prioritizes winning [...]

POWERING THROUGH MY FINAL SEASON Well, I’ve seen all there is to see And I’ve heard all they have to say I’ve done everything I wanted to do . . . I’ve done that too And [...]

THE CARROT AND THE STICK Most of us have been raised with rewards and punishments, the carrot and the stick.  B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) had a huge impact on American education. Skinner’s [...]

FEEDING THE CATS IN THE EMERALD ISLE JULY 6 In the past year, I’ve spoken to groups as small as 25 (NSCA Illinois) and as large as 500 (Glazier Football Clinic, Las Vegas). I addressed an entire [...]

I wrote this article in June of 2017 in the car on the 2,113 mile ride home from the NCAA Championships in Eugene. The article caught the interest of the legendary Michael Boyle who flew me to [...]

THE TEN DON’TS OF SPEED TRAINING There is no sprint textbook. There is no absolute certainty when it comes to optimal sprint training. Like it or not, the training of a sprinter is [...]

Don Holler: The Death of a Coach It’s hard to tell when the cascading medical problems began. Let’s just say that life in Don Holler’s eighties was not kind. Procedures, infections, surgeries, [...]