Developing the college football student-athlete, Part 1

This is part 1 of a 2 part series on developing the college football student-athlete. I often use the terms that were started by Bill Connelly to describe the three-pronged process of a college football program: acquisition, development, and deployment. Acquisition would be recruiting (and that damn Transfer Portal). Development would be what we’re going to learn today- it’s power, movement, and psychology as well as sport specific skills. Deployment is the strategy used on game day.

A coach is supposed to be a teacher and mentor. As we’re all aware, in the cut-throat world of Division I College Football, mentorship is often transactional rather than transformational. The ‘free labor’ is…