50 Common Coaching Mistakes Made by Youth Football Coaches

50 Common Coaching Mistakes Made by Youth Football Coaches to Avoid These are 50 coaching mistakes made by youth football coaches when coaching youth football. Coach Parker has made a few of these over his 30 years coaching youth football and wanted to share how to avoid these common coaching mistakes.    1. Daddy Ball especially at QB or TB 2. Promising Players certain positions on Team when recruiting players 3. Too much stretching and conditioning during practices 4. Not matching Roster to Offense and Defense Schemes 5. Forgetting about Special Teams 6. Not Blocking and Tackling at each practice 7. Not having an experienced O-Line Coach 8. QB / Center Exchange / Shotgun Snaps not working 9. Too many pass plays during games 10. Defense does not attack, sits back, and Reads 11. Players not put in correct positions 12. Not Adjusting to Opposing Schemes in Game and Before 13. No Scouting 14. Size of Playbook – too few or too many plays 15. Changes playbook every week 16. Not having the right plays installed for opposing team 17. Not knowing how to call plays 18. Playbook does not have sequence series of plays 19. OC / play caller not good at calling plays 20. No Spotters for play callers during games 21. Not happy with 4-yard plays / Impatient 22. Not willing to learn how to coach youth football / continue education / study 23. Too little or too much hitting / scrimmages 24. Yelling and screaming at players vs motivating players 25. Not Demonstrating fundamentals 26. Talking too much during practice 27. Not enough drill stations 28. Practice moving too slow 29. Not understanding and working with your league 30. Being too soft about what you want from players, staff, and parents 31. Poor Communicator 32. Too many coaches on staff that stand around talking and not coaching 33. Picking all your neighbor kids and not focusing on experienced talent 34. Flag coaches thinking Tackle will be so easy 35. Not having discipline at practice being too nice 36. Not choosing the right team mom that supports you 37. Not calling your team on the first day roster is out 38. Does not communicate updated practices schedules in timely manner 39. No written practice plans 40. On back pain medication and not communicating to parents you’re not drunk 41. Drinking and Smoking in front of players at practice field  42. Screaming at the Refs constantly setting poor example for your parents 43. Not having enough footballs to make practice run efficiently 44. Not having enough bags and equipment 45. Forgetting first aid kit 46. Forgetting Water for Game 47. Forgetting Cool Towels or Hand Warmers for Game 48. Running too many wind sprints at end of practice 49. Punishing players on the field after a game 50. Forgetting to thank your wife and family.   Don't forget extra mouthpieces too.    Check out all the free content at CoachParker.org with close to 400 youth football articles and and my YouTube channel with over 300 youth football coaching videos.    You can also visit my new youth football site at  https://youthfootballcoachingtips.com/  Join me on: http://www.facebook.com/youthfootball/  http://twitter.com/coachparker_org  http://youtube.com/stephenparker  https://anchor.fm/coachparker  Play for Fun and Winning is Funner!   Coach Parker is a youth football coach in Fort Worth, Texas.  He has been coaching pee wee tackle football for over 20 years in football little leagues in Texas and Colorado. Coach Parker has written many digital ebooks; youth football coaching playbooks on defense, offense, drills, 7 on 7, 8 Man football.  Stay tuned for more free youth football coaching podcasts from Coach Parker.    Contact Coach Parker anytime at https://coachparker.org/about-coach-parker/contact-me/