The Special Teams Coordinator s Football Handbook is a comprehensive guide for football coaches who need to know more about the kicking game. The information in the book has been developed and comprised by Mike Cieri during his half-century of coaching winning championship teams both on the collegiate and high school levels. Numerous topics are presented that are easily understandable and would enable any football coach to improve the kicking game that leads to winning the hidden yardage battle. The Special Teams Coordinator s Football Handbook is a complete, comprehensive, thorough, concise illustrated compendium on how to do anything well in the kicking game. The Special Teams Coordinator s Football Handbook provides the tactical insights for gaining an advantage in every facet of the crucial third component of championship teams. This authoritative book will be a treasured resource that any coach or special teams coordinator should have in their personal reference library. Special teams organization and management strategies, schematics with effective techniques, and drills to build the fundamentals, along with how to use digital and visual media sources for teaching and scouting, it s all here! The Special Teams Coordinator s Football Handbook features philosophy and organization strategies, detailed instruction on how to develop the special teams player and specialists, as well as preparing scouting reports and game planning, and suggestions on grading and issuing awards plus game day procedures. This book provides an in-depth study of the schematics and the best practice drills needed to teach and build the six phases of the kicking game for success. In addition, this book demonstrates the importance of tackling, turnovers, and ball security surrounding the kicking game. Time-tested, proven, and well-illustrated drills to build the fundamentals and techniques behind the philosophy and schematics of solid and effective special teams play support The Special Teams Coordinator s Football Handbook can be found cover to cover. In addition, supplemental forms for special teams organization and clarity complete this book. The Special Teams Coordinator s Football Handbook will help you better coach special teams. It provides tactical and technical information that will benefit your team. It will teach you how to give proper instruction to players, which in turn will lead to excellent execution and positive results. The Special Teams Coordinator s Football Handbook will provide planning and preparation that will propel perfect performance. Let it help you win football games. After all, special teams play is the quickest way to win football games. The Special Teams Coordinator's Football Handbook is one of the most comprehensive special teams books that I have ever read. It will be an invaluable resource for every special team's coordinator or coach's library. The book provides a wealth of sound and effective information that I wish I would have known when I became a special teams coordinator. The theories, organization, techniques, schemes, and drills are simple, common sense-oriented, doable, and fundamentally sound. They will help any special teams coach improve the quality of his squad s performance. --John Pearce; Head Football Coach; Sul Ross State University (TX) Mike Cieri is one of the most outstanding teachers and coaches of special teams in football today. He has dedicated himself to improving football by thoroughly researching every aspect of special teams play to make it digestible to all. Coach Cieri is a leader and an innovator in the game of football. This book is an accumulation of his efforts and proficiency in special teams' philosophy and instruction. --Jim Delaney; Head Football Coach; High Point High School (NJ) Coach Cieri has energized the kicking game at Montclair State University. It does not take long for his players to recognize the knowledge he possesses, the organizational skills, and the individual skill-building techniques that have enabled his Red Hawks special teams units to be a powerful force in Division III football. --Rick Giancola; Head Football Coach; Montclair State University (NJ) Mike Cieri, a coaching veteran of 44 college seasons and 50 overall, is the special teams coordinator and defensive line coach for the 10th winningest Division III football program in the nation over the past 80 years, Montclair State University, NJ (486W-279L-20T Nationally / 231W-76L-2T NJAC). Since 2003, Cieri s special teams have excelled in the highly competitive New Jersey Athletic Conference. Over that span, under Cieri s tutelage, six of his special teams have combined to rank #1 in the conference in overall statistical production. His kickoff return units have achieved a 72 percent efficiency of getting the ball past the 30-yard line to start offensive drives. His kickoff coverage teams have not allowed the opponent s return to reach the 30-yard line 75 percent of the time. Cieri s