Usa Football Coach And Coordinator Podcast

On today’s podcast, host Keith Grabowski is joined by Chris Monfiletto, TE’s Coach at Rice University. Coach came to Rice in 2019 after having spent the previous seven seasons as head coach at Kenyon College. At Kenyon, Monfiletto took what was a struggling program and turned them into a consistent winner. Coach joined the podcast today to talk about how the tight end position has evolved as well as how he recruits and molds each player into a specific tight end role. Show Notes: 1:16 Coach’s Journey 3:24 Learning from your players 4:39 How coach developed his philosophies 6:13 How he turned around a program 8:20 Coach’s passion for the game 10:58 Finding kids who love the game 12:15 Piecing together different pieces from recruits to build the whole picture 13:29 Determining different roles for his TE’s 16:19 Coaching all the different skill sets of TE’s as well as fitting them into the gameplan 18:17 Streamlining how the players learn 20:08 How the wound up with a TE getting carries from the backfiel