Coaching Football's "Little Things"

I just returned from Baltimore. I was there for a regional Fellowship of Christian Athletes-sponsored conference on training Character Coaches and Team Chaplain. Great time and great material!

Rod Hairston, the Balt. Ravens Team Chaplain, was the keynote speaker. We also had Joe Erhmann speaking to us on coaching from “the inside out.” I recommended Jeffrey Marxx’s book about Coach Erhmann to you a few months ago. Now, I want to recommend Joe’s new book entitled Coaching From the Inside Out. I bought a copy at the conference and am looking forward to pouring through it.

I want to encourage those of you who are coaches out there (HC’s in particular) to prayerfully consider getting an FCA-approved Character Coach or Team Chaplain for your team. There was testimony after testimony from high school and college chaplains about the fabulous work they are doing with players at both levels. Contact your local FCA rep. and tell him/her that you’d like to talk about getting a character coach or team chaplain on your staff. If you care about your players’ minds and spirits as well as their bodies, then you need to get FCA involved on your campus and more specifically on your team!