Coach and Coordinator podcast: Kevin Turco (5/26/17)

By Stephen Spiewak | Posted 5/26/2017

Kevin Turco is today’s guest on the USA Football Coach and Coordinator podcast during Military Appreciation Week. Turco, a former Marine, is the head coach at Lindenwood University—Belleville (Ill.). He details his journey as a football coach, including his spur-of-the-moment drive across the country to South Carolina to attempt to get a meeting with Lou Holtz. He also discusses “unit leaders” in his program, the inverted pyramid of leadership and why he refuses to open the football office on Sunday.

Show notes

  • :39   Football player-->Military-->Football coach
  • 2:19   Driving overnight across the country to show up at Lou Holtz's office
  • 6:29   The time Turco did a full game breakdown for Holtz...but on the wrong side of the ball
  • 8:50   How military experience matters in coaching
  • 11:30   Establishing a new culture
  • 15:50   Why Turco doesn't run players
  • 17:08   Coach--> coordinators --> unit leaders
  • 19:43   The inverted pyramid of leadership (and Turco's chain of command)
  • 22:32   Choosing unit leaders
  • 24:54   Why--and how--Turco refuses to open the office on Sunday
  • 28:05   The winning edge

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