Elyria Pioneers Football

This is the official account for the Elyria Pioneers football program.

[Elyria Pioneers Football @ElyriaFb]

Elyria High School 2026 Football Schedule....see you this Fall! #TheClimb

[Elyria Pioneers Football @ElyriaFb]

Free Youth Football Camp!

When: Monday June 8th

Time:
Grades 2-5 from 4 to 6 PM
Grades 6-8 from 6:30 to 830 PM

Place: ELY Stadium

No pre registration needed.

See you Monday Night!

[Alonte Lunn @alunn32]

Hello I'm raising funds for Elyria High School- Football Fundraiser 2026 and would love your support. You can click here to make your donation - thank you! https://t.co/QNmzMQPQrm

[Elyria Pioneers Football @ElyriaFb]

Congratulations to our West All Stars for defeating the East squad. Goodspeed was dominate on the OL and both Pride and Rogers found the endzone in the game. All 3 played great and repped the E with pride. Best of luck in college boys!

#TheClimb

[Parker Osborne @ParkerOsborne55]

Excited to be at Findlay tomorrow!! @CoachGoreJr @CoachRidings @ElyriaFb @ElyriaStrength

[Elyria Pioneers Football @ElyriaFb]

Two Pioneers are captaining the West All Stars. Congrats Jackson #77 and Antonio #22.

#PioneerPride
#TheClimb

[Move The Chains @_MoveTheChains_]

Shallow Sting from Texas Tech 📝👇
https://t.co/NhHcs5d32F

[Nate Longshore @mrlongshore]

Core runs do not stay efficient by accident.

If you want to live in outside zone, split zone, or any foundational run concept, the defense is eventually going to overplay the action. That is where compliments matter. Nakeds, boots, keepers, and movement throws punish defenders for chasing the run.

But the next layer is the counter punch to the compliment.

When the defense starts reacting to the naked, the quarterback cannot just run into the edge player or throw the obvious flat concept. He has to pull up while selling naked, let the run action pull down the boundary defenders, let the field defenders chase the tendencies, and replace the void with the deep cross.

The boundary No. 1 keeping his route skinny as he occupies the corner in the deep third. That spacing creates the window for the deep cross runner working back across the field.

That is offensive structure.

Core run + Compliment + Counter punch = Efficiency.

The best offenses do not just call plays. They build answers in sequence.

[Danny Schaechter 🏝️🏈🐾 @CoachDShack]

San Francisco 49ers DL 6 Point Explosion Get Off Drill

[Brian Kight @BrianKight]

Do you train these behavior skills on your team?

All results come from behavior. Results won't improve until behavior improves. If you want behavior to improve, you have to train it like you train in the weight room or on the field.

My new Coach Advisor tool makes this possible in ways you have to see to believe.

To improve behavior, the first thing you have to do is answer the question:

What is behavior?

Behavior is easily understood as three things:

• What players DO
• What players DON'T DO
• HOW players do it

Performance and results are the consequence of what players do (choices and actions), what they don't do (what they avoid, resist, or refuse), and how they do it (effort, energy, quality, and standard of execution).

With that foundation established, review this list of behavior skills and answer three question:

1. Which skills are affecting our team most in good or bad ways?

2. What impact are those skills having on our team's execution and performance?

3. How are we developing those skills?

The list of behavior skills:

Awareness
Discipline
Confidence
Focus
Time
Energy
Observation
Humility
Empathy
Listening
Integrity
Emotion
Forgiveness
Flexibility
Saying No
Risk Management
Honesty
Influence
Assertiveness
Non-verbals
Decision-making
Patience
Persistence
Courage
Disagreements
Navigating Uncertainty
Processing Criticism
Prioritizing
Learning
Rapport building
Change
Responsibility
Clarity

If you're interested in improving these skills (in your players, yourself, or your staff) with better training integrated throughout your program and operations, try out my new Coach Advisor tool.

See the post below for the link ⬇️

[Austin Byler @AustinByler14]

Great message here… “the only failure is refusing to get back up.”

[Steve Campbell @SCampbell_1]

A high school coach once asked me why one of his players wasn't getting recruiting attention.

My first question was simple:

"What's his HUDL link?"

The response:

"We don't have one yet. He's still working on it."

That answer told me everything.

College coaches can't recruit a player they can't evaluate.

And once they do click on your film, you have a short window to hold their attention.

The best plays need to be first.

Speed. Explosion. Range. Savvy.

Whatever separates you from the crowd needs to show up early and often.

The video needs to be organized.

No film = no evaluation.

Poorly organized film = coaches move on.

Your highlight tape is often your first impression.

Make it count.

[James Purchin @JamesPurchin]

"Be on time" isn't one of Pete Carroll's rules.

"Be early" is.

He won a Super Bowl with 3 rules total.

Rule 1: Protect the team.

Not the slogan. The mindfulness.

It's pulling a teammate out of a fight.
It's not hitting the guy late in practice.
It's the call you make when nobody's watching.

Rule 2: No whining, no complaining, no excuses.

Stolen from Coach Wooden

The point isn't to be upbeat.
The point is your self-talk runs the show.
Words come first. Behavior follows.

Rule 3: Be early.

Not on time. Early.

You can't be early by luck.
You thought about it the night before.
You set the alarm.
You knew the commitment.

Being early is a sign of respect you can see.

3 rules to run an NFL locker room.

Most teams have 12 values nobody can recite.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

This is an awesome teaching point

Have a “win every drill” mindset and everything else will be okay

[Elyria Pioneers Football @ElyriaFb]

Come out and support our Pioneers Friday Night at JCU. They are playing in the East / West all star game. Gates open at 6, game starts at 7 pm.

Congrats boys and good luck!

[Elyria Pioneers Football @ElyriaFb]

Pioneer Football Needs You:

We are starting a Fundraiser and we are looking to purchase protective gear and team gear for our athletes. Please consider helping our team with any donation you can afford. We appreciate all of your support. (Scan the code to donate) #TheClimb

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Nick Saban said, "Everything starts with discipline."

"It's what are you willing to accept from yourself."

Discipline isn't punishment. It's a choice.

• A choice to be consistent.
• A choice to put in the work.
• A choice to demand more from yourself.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Kobe on Leadership:

"Leadership is Lonely. If you are going to be a leader, you are not going to please everybody. You have to hold people accountable. Even if you have that moment of being uncomfortable."