The FNF Coaches Talk Podcast FNF Coaches

Marshall head coach Charles Huff stops by the Fishcast to talk about his first year with the Thundering Herd, all the things he's learned from his past stops and coaching mentors like Nick Saban, P.J. Fleck, James Franklin and Chan Gailey. Huff also gives his thoughts on recruiting, the transfer portal and offers some advice to young coaches out there. Trust me, you'll want to listen to this one!

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Brian Johnson agreed to become the Cal head football athletic performance coach in January. Johnson has spent the previous 11 seasons on strength and conditioning staffs at FBS schools and in the NFL. Most recently, he served as director of strength and conditioning at Arizona (2018-20), where he heavily implemented sports science while also working as a liaison between the football program and the Center for Innovation in Brain Science.
Topics include:

How would he assess his HS strength program at Godby High (Fla.)? (1:55)

What was missing? (3:00)

Playing at LSU, what were the biggest takeaways from your college experience? (5:15)

How do you break up the season in terms of phases? (7:20)

What about position groups? Customizing workouts? (9:45)

What is a standard week like during the summer? (12:35)

How do you generate energy in the weight room? (14:35)

What lifts do you test players on? How does it work? (18:00)

What technology do you use in the weight room? (21:45)

How do you avoid soft tissue injuries? (24:10)

How does he train for speed (28:10)

How do you balance giving players enough recovery time vs. pushing them to make gains? (30:45)

How has your philosophy evolved over the years? (32:45)

What is your in-season philosophy? (36:00)

What did you take from your NFL experience? (37:30)


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Today’s podcast is going to help you come up with a health and safety plan for your team so that you don’t have any players who suffer from heat-related illnesses. Our guest is Cold Daddy CEO Hobby Howell. He talks about how his company’s patented portable water chillers make the game safer for coaches and players.

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We want to share products with you that make you more efficient as a coach, and this is certainly one of them. The CoachComm Cobalt Plus headset system with a Player Receiver helped one Arkansas coach win a state championship. Shiloh Christian’s (Ark.) HFC Jeff Conaway used the Cobalt system for the first time in 2020, taking advantage of the Player Receiver. During each practice, eight of his players wore receivers on their arms, giving the coaches a direct line of communication.
Conaway is the first guest to explain how the product helped his team. The second guest is CoachComm VP of Sales Mike Whitley, who talks about how the product can benefit teams.

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More and more football coaches are taking their cues from a high school track coach in Plainfield, Ill.  Tony Holler invented a revolutionary new method of training sprinters at Plainfield North High (Ill.) called “Feed the Cats.” It’s a minimalist approach to training which discourages putting sprinters through long workouts that make them feel crushed by the end. Topics include:

Why sprint training needed to be done differently (2:30)

What is the Feed the Cats program? (4:45)

Why it took courage to do something differently (7:10)

How he fills practice time with so few reps (11:30)

How often athletes should be training at top speed (14:35)

Record, record and publish (18:05)

Never crush the physical or emotional soul of athletes (22:10)

Micro-dose training (25:35)

How does this impact injuries? (32:00)

What technology helps coach? (36:35)

Do you ever hear from parents who say you need to be training them harder? (39:55)


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Today’s guest is Roger Harriott, head coach at St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Harriott has led his alma mater to four state championship since his hire in 2015. Harriott opens the curtain on the culture at St. Thomas Aquinas, how he and his staff mold student-athletes into better people, and how he positions them to impact others in a positive way throughout life.
Topics include:

The structures he has in place to mold better men (1:40)

Objectives vs. goals (8:00)

Forming a brotherhood (12:30)

Instilling optimism and confidence in players (16:00)

The value of knowing how to become successful (23:00)

Being a role model in a conflicting world (28:00)

Glamorizing dangerous men (35:00)

How his team improved its GPA (42:00)

How he learned to harness his emotions after a loss (46:00)


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