Scott Tappa is a football, basketball, and baseball coach in Iola, Wis. In addition to serving as coach, he was president of Iola-Scandinavia Pee Wee Athletics and the Mid-State Youth Football & Cheerleading Conference. He is a business education teacher at Iola-Scandinavia High School. After beginning his career as a newspaper sports editor, he worked in a variety of magazine, book, and online capacities before landing at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he worked in a marketing, communications, and events position, and founded the Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference. Scott is married to Jana and father of Will and Charlie.
Scott is the author of coaching books including 114 Youth Football Plays, First-Time Coach: Youth Football, Read Option Offense for Youth Football, 129 Trick Football Plays, 105 Youth Football Drills, Create Your Own Football Playbook, Create Your Own Basketball Playbook, and High School Basketball Analytics. All are available on Amazon.
Love you videos very helpful I’m starting football in a couple weeks and you taught me so much I hope I will do good lol but thanks so much for your help keep makes. This amazing videos thanks again
I randomly stumbled upon your channel and I saw that you have some Wisconsin football apparel on on the wall I'm actually looking into coaching football but I've got to finish my last view semesters of college personally I'm a die-hard Nebraska cornhusker fan but my dad did grow up in Wisconsin before moving to Lincoln so there's a little bit of a connection I have to Wisconsin but I think the deeper connection in all of it would be that Barry Alvarez kind of brought Nebraska's power running game over to Wisconsin and kind of got him out of the gutter if I'm not mistaken on my college football history it's a shame that we can't beat you guys now that we have joined the Big ten and look out here comes basically the top end of the pac-10 to make everything more interesting thanks for the coaching videos sorry if this comment is a little bit judgemental Pandora jumping the gun I'm literally commenting before washing the whole video but I was looking about trying to find some offensive line videos and I'm pretty sure I found the right spot keep up the good work
No kidding! It's hilarious to look back at some of these, and depressing that I'm now 10-15 years older than when some of these were originally recorded.
The Link to the PowerPoint drive me to "Evergreen SPRING FLAG Football", is a Defense document. Maybe is the wrong link? Can you post the PowerPoint template for the Offensive Playbook?
I don't recommend most of the hand techniques for stripping the ball, because the hand is too weak while the player holding the ball has several points of contact. I coach the use of the forearm or elbow as a club, or, if you can do it on the initial hit, the shoulder. I'm talking about the part of the body you're hitting *with,* not the part you're hitting.
Teach your kids to tackle first…head on…left angle …then right angle…teach leverage and fits. Once the tackling is sound….move to the wrap and roll. Baby steps…crawl before you walk.
Stalk blocking is one of the hardest assignments in football, because the defender has better knowledge of where the runner is going than the blocker does. You have the right idea of how to coach this. I tell them to watch the defender's eyes, but realistically, it's the head. Truth be told though, stalk blocking is such a difficult skill that in putting together an offense, I try to avoid that assignment as far as possible. I'd rather have the blocker come from inside out, and the wide-out sent to block someone inside.
You're 100% right, stalk blocking is tough to teach. Even when kids are giving max effort on it, they tend to either go out too aggressively or hold on too long and draw a flag.
