Today's guest is Eric Kasperowicz, the head coach of Pine-Richlands High School (Gibsonia, Pa.), a top program in Western Pennsylvania. He joins the USA Football Coach and Coordinator podcast to discuss why his varsity coaches will directly coach players for all four years of their high school career, the importance of outreach to local youth and middle school programs and why his teams won't practice in full pads after Week 2.

Show notes

• :57   Coaching start
• 2:35   Lessons learned as a young coach
• 3:15   Pine-Richland and the relationship between support and success
• 4:35   Program philosophy is easy: Family
• 6:08   Methods for building culture
• 7:26   The beauty of simplicity
• 9:02   Why all players in Kasperowicz's program will get four years of coaching from a varsity coach
• 11:55   Leveraging technology
• 13:24   When it comes to practice, more is not always better
• 15:40   The "Look cadence" and building in answers to schematic problems before they occur
• 17:30   The red zone begins whenever the defense changes
• 20:35   Book recommendation
• 21:12   The PB&J bar (with chocolate milk)
• 22:59   Learning as much as you can about the other side of the ball
• 24:32   Why coaches need to understand that the drills they did as players don't work
• 26:08   Educating middle school feeder programs
• 27:30   Advice to a young coach
• 30:58   Two-minute drill
• 32:41   The winning edge

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