Teach & DC @ THE OAKMONT High School/SKOL VIKES/💪🦴&📚 /My purpose is to develop young ppl who can exhibit grit, empathy & leadership. Opinions are my own!
Welp, there was a time not to long ago when football didn’t take place all summer. Kids were allowed to go on vacation, take a break, heck play summer basketball or baseball without having to worry about missing summer workouts.
HS news and notes: Unity Bowl pits Fire-ravaged football towns Paradise of Butte County playing at a Hawaii program also devastated by fire
Also: Two Sacramento-area prep stars verbal to UCLA and former Placer County head coach joins Roseville program
Average young athlete: “I can’t lift in-season, it’ll make me sore & I’ll get hurt.”
Dominant college pitcher who lifted the DAY OF his World Series start
You can & should lift in-season too
41 years of coaching football taught me that while scheme, and coaching are important, the biggest indicator or predictor of success is player, parental and communities Investment! When everyone puts in the quality time to outwork & out prepare your opponents, success happens.
Army football doesn’t have NIL.
So Jeff Monken is often presented with this problem - his players can go make life changing money and he can’t do anything about it.
This is how he handles it ⬇️