Special Teams Coordinator

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The Special Teams Coordinator is part of the coaching staff of an American football and Canadian football team.

Definition of terms

The Special Teams Coordinator stands in the chain of command together with the Defensive Coordinator and the Offensive Coordinator directly below the Head Coach . He is responsible for all players and assistant coaches of the special teams . He is responsible for the guidance of the various assistant coaches of the special teams. It often happens that the Special Teams Coordinator also holds another coaching position, such as coaching the tight ends .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Allan Trimble: Coaching Football Successfully . Human Kinetics, Champaigne, IL 2005, ISBN 978-0-7360-5544-4 , pp. 50 ( online ).
  2. ^ Bill Mallory, Don Nehlen, American Football Coaches Association: Complete Guide to Special Teams . Human Kinetics, Champaigne, IL 2005, ISBN 978-0-7360-5291-7 , pp. 125 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Dave Matter: Odom won't hire special teams coordinator. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 16, 2016, accessed on April 3, 2016 (English): “Last year, 53 power conference staffs had at least one coach designated special teams coordinator, sometimes two. Only 10 staffs at the power conference level had coaches solely slotted as special teams coordinators without other position coach duties. "