On today's episode of the Coach and Coordinator podcast, Mike Emendorfer joins the show. Emendorfer is the interim athletic director and head coach at Wisconsin-Platteville, where he's coached for the past 18 years, breaking numerous offensive records in the process. Emendorfer's teams at Wisconsin-Platteville routinely appear in national rankings and he's taken home Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors twice.

Show notes

• 1:04   Start as a football coach
• 2:28   Lessons learned early on
• 3:18   Coaching philosophy and culture: Building through humor
• 6:01   Way back when...when RPOs were just called the "Choice Game"
• 7:55   Advantages of trips into the boundary
• 10:56   Blade concept and slicing the defense in half
• 12:18   "Circus" play
• 16:17   Playcalling in a big spot
• 18:05   Approaching situational football in practice
• 24:25   Practice is important for coaches, too
• 25:54   Mistake as a young coach
• 26:56   Best coaching advice received
• 27:54   Advice to a young coach
• 29:57   Inspiration from Jim McNally's passion for fundamentals
• 32:35   Influences in passing game
• 35:00   Be careful trying to do too much
• 38:40   Creating balance
• 41:48   Concerns for future of the game
• 43:35   Two-minute drill

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