Tag: Coaching

The 5th Quarter with Coach Anderson: Game 2

undertheheadset September 12, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

1st Quarter: Despite not getting the final result you wanted, what did you take away from reviewing the game film this week? – “I think we saw a bunch of guys who desperately wanted to play well on that stage, and the magnitude of that atmosphere overwhelmed us a bit early on and led to us making some crucial mistakes early on in the game. When you play a team with the talent Alabama has, and they are every bit as talented as everybody thinks they are, you can’t make any mistakes because they will capitalize on them.

“A Coach’s Life” with Gene Chizik: Act 3 – The Next Journey

undertheheadset August 31, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

When a successful coach has a tough season it’s not because he forgot how to coach overnight. It’s hard to win in college football. There are numerous factors that go into winning a single game, let alone having a winning season. So did losing his job at Auburn mean Gene Chizik was no longer wanted in college football? Did he all of the sudden become a bad coach? Well, if the amount of people reaching out to him to come to their school and coach is any indicator, I’d say that answer was no.

“A Coach’s Life” with Gene Chizik: Act 2 – Reaching the Pinnacle

undertheheadset August 29, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

Football is a sport that is played by kids of all ages, from Pop Warner to the NFL. At every level, there are head coaches, coordinators and assistants. All of these coaches have career goals like you would in any other profession. For some, they like coaching right where they are, whether it be high school, college or one of the many levels in college football. There are coaches that prefer to be an assistant or a coordinator. They like the connection they have with their specific position group. Then there are coaches that know they want to be a head coach; and they want to be a head coach and reach the pinnacle of their profession. They want to be a champion.

“A Coach’s Life” with Gene Chizik: Act 1 – The Journey

undertheheadset August 27, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

Summertime is when families find time to go on vacation and spend some quality time together. The hustle and bustle of the modern world can make it hard to find that time. In the coaching world it is even more difficult for coaches and their families to find any time at all where they can be completely free from what’s going on “at work.”

The Extra Point with Shawn Elliott: Setting The Tone

undertheheadset June 4, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

Like many aspects of life, in order to be successful in the game of football you have to have a plan. You have to assess what you have on your own team. You have to assess what your opponent has on their team.

The 5th Quarter with Coach Anderson – Spring Practice Recap

undertheheadset May 29, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

Our goal with http://www.undertheheadset.com is to give an unfiltered voice to football coaches at all levels. Allow them to speak their mind in an open forum that goes beyond the typical press conference. In the process, we hope fans and fellow coaches alike get to see and hear what these coaches are like after the press conference is over and the lights are turned off. No filters. No agendas. Just conversations.

The Extra Point with Darrin Chiaverini: Back Where I Belong

undertheheadset May 21, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

That is not the case in coaching, particularly in coaching college football. Make no mistake, there is a process in moving through the ranks of college football. However, that process can take on many forms and follow different paths to the same job.

The Extra Point with Scott Satterfield: Reaching the Mountain Top (Part 2)

undertheheadset May 16, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

Here is Part 2 of our conversation with Appalachian State Head Coach, Scott Satterfield, on his journey in coaching.

When you think back to the days when you were an assistant, how would you have finished this sentence, “When I get my own program, the first thing I’m going to do is…”?

The Extra Point with Scott Satterfield: Reaching the Mountain Top (Part 1)

undertheheadset May 14, 2018

By Jeff Greenberg

There’s a cliché that is passed around from time to time in different walks of life. It goes something like, “If you’ve met one ‘xyz’, you’ve met one ‘xyz’.” It speaks to the fact that we are all individuals with distinct characters, or distinctly different stories.

A Special 5th Quarter: Wendy Anderson vs Cancer

undertheheadset April 16, 2018

It’s been one year since Wendy Anderson, the wife of Arkansas State Head Football Coach, Blake Anderson, was diagnosed with cancer. It’s been quite a year since that moment. One in which there were the expected lows early in the process. However, the last year was dominated by the highs of the Andersons’ faith and the great news they experienced months later…

The Life of a Coaching Family – Part 3: Dear Dad…

undertheheadset April 2, 2018

Dear Dad,

We often get asked what it’s like for our dad to be a football coach. After all these years, it’s still a tough question to answer.

The Life of a Coaching Family – Part 2: Being Married to the Coach

undertheheadset March 26, 2018

Every Saturday afternoon in the Fall, fans flock to college stadiums all over the country to watch their favorite football team. After the game, there is usually a press conference where the head coach appears for the media and answers questions about the game or about that week’s preparation for the game. One question that isn’t usually asked is how much time the coach was able to see his family during the week leading up to that game…