Chris Parker

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Parker Resources Head Coach Academy is designed to help current and aspiring Head Coaches come up with their plan for success. This book is great for coaches of any sport or any experience level. The book serves as a workbook to present as much information as possible on how to develop your plan as a successful head coach. Chapters include:
- Being a good assistant coach
- Resume, References, and Interviewing
- Building a Philosophy & Plan
- Mental & Emotional Player Development
- Physical Player Development
- Creating Team Policies & Procedures
- Coaching Staff Organization & Development
- Booster Club & Parents
- The Community
- Practices
- Game Day
- Creating your scheme
- Total Program Development
- Coaching Keys to Success
- Putting it all together

365 Pages to plan and get organized.  

Coach Parker's Resume Template.  You can download and adapt to your credentials. 

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Situational Football awareness seems to be something that separates the average coaches from the good coaches. Coaches at all levels should understand situations to help give your team the best chance to win. It is with that in mind that I compiled this resource of 100 football situations that all football coaches should know.

This book is designed to give you the following about each situation: Things to consider, data/statistics, and a few recommendations. Regardless of what schemes you run, you will find yourself in all 100 of these situations if you coach long enough. Educate yourself on them and come up with your plan for scheme, practice, and scouting for each situation.

Documents to build a winning culture.

This is a template Head Coach Notebook for someone that is trying to build a program plan to possibly present in a job interview.  This is 102 pages and very extensive. 

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This book contains 10 steps to help prospective Head Coaches educate themselves on the process of attaining and retaining a Head Coaching Job.

Topics included within those 10 steps:

• What is the most likely path?
• 1st time Head Coaches v. Experienced Coaches
• 5 things aspiring head coaches need to know
• How do you know if you are ready?
• Before you contact the school
• Introduce yourself properly
• Resume
• Application Red Flags
• References
• Prepare for the interview
• Be yourself in the interview
• Keys to a successful Interview
• If you do not get the job…...
• If you get the job…...
• Win the first 90 Days
• Create a real plan
• Execute your plan
• Coaching Keys to Success

Being the Head Coach is an honor and a privilege. These jobs are difficult to attain and even more difficult to keep. I hope this book helps guide you in your pursuit of success!

The Parker Resources 2025 Football Coach Calendar.  Each month has a basic calendar with tasks lists and a page of recommendations from Parker Resources. 

Here are Coach Parker's documents for Booster Clubs.

This course is all about the Sweep!  Fundamentals at each position and ways to run it out of multiple looks.  Jet Sweep & Buck Sweep!

This course will teach situational football in Offense, Defense, and Special teams. 

This course will walk you through the steps to Fixing a Struggling Program.  

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This book covers 10 lessons learned over a career in Coaching and Athletic Administration that should be helpful for a coach of any sport, athletic director, or aspiring coach.

The lessons in this book include:
1. Put Relationships over Everything
2. Have a plan
3. Over-Communicate
4. It is all in the Presentation & Delivery
5. Put your vision over your feelings
6. Avoid petty problems
7. Focus on what you have and not what you do not
8. You never have it all figured out
9. Stepping up in hard times
10. Have fun and make it fun.

Each lesson has several important factors and each factor has a "how to" section designed to give the reader methods to practically implement these lessons into their team.

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Half the teams must lose each week. No one intentionally fails, but half of the participants will fail in all contests. This makes coaching wonderful and challenging at the same time. Sports are still about winning. When you win, it is much easier for the coach to focus on discipline, character, academics, and more. Winning is not everything, but it is very important if you want to make the biggest difference possible in your program.

This book is all about winning on the football field. You will not agree with everything in this book. The intention is not for you to agree with everything, but pick up some practical tips to help your team win. Consider these tips another tool you can use to help yourself get in that good “half” each game!

Here are the 10 Tips...

1. Make Self-Scouting relevant
2. Find ways to be smart and unique
3. Get your team to play "faster"
4. Teach the Situations
5. Avoid Coaching Scared
6. Find as many ways as possible to play football
7. You better develop who you have
8. Create a system that creates A.I.R.
9. Spend more time planning and less time worrying/gossiping
10. Don't ask the players to be tough if the coaches aren't tough

In this course, you will learn the horizontal game in the Empty offense. Ways to stretch the entire field horizontally and make the defense defend the entire field. 

In this course, you will learn part of Coach Parker's Empty Offense.  This course focuses on Alignments.  This will show all formations, shifts, tempos, and motions used.  Hundreds of combinations to run during the course of a season!

In this course, you will learn the practice organization used by Coach Parker in the Empty Offense. 

In this course, you learn how the Empty Offense can be used in all situations: Long Yardage, Medium Yardage, Short Yardage, Red Zone, Goal-Line, End of Half/Game, Trick Plays, etc. 

Coach Parker's practice documents package. 

In this course, you will learn the individual position needs at each position in the Empty Offense. 

In this course, you will learn the veritcal game in the Empty Offense.  The best attirubte of the Empty Offense is the ability to attack the field with 5 verticals 

Coaching Staff organization documents to help coaches get organized!

In this course, you learn about game planning and scouting in the Empty Offense. 

This course is all about BUNCH.  The Bunch Wing package we ran for years was a great way to CHANGE THE FLANK, CHANGE THE COVERAGE, and MAKE THEM THINK.

The course will be taught in the following segments:

• Introduction
• Sweep out of bunch - both directions
• Complements - read DE, read DT, read LB, play action
• Drop Pass game out of bunch
• Summary

Diagrams and video clips will be included. 

This is the program manual I kept up with and edited annually to run the football program. Since I worked for many, many years on this and do not use it now, I wanted to share with people that could use it. In no way, shape, or form am I saying this is the “right” way. I just wanted to share our way in hopes it could provide you with an idea or two to help your program.

Parker Resources Clinic on PRACTICE!  You get sessions with 17 different coaches from 10 different states.  Small schools, large schools, offense, defense, and special teams....all talking about Practice schedule, structure, planning, etc.   This is over 10 hours of talk about Practice. 

Speakers:

• Jake Timmermann, OL Coach Grayson (GA); Offensive Line Practice
• Ryan Andrews, DC Griffin (GA); Defensive Practice
• Terrance Banks, HC Greene Co (GA); Practice Culture
• Dana Arthur, STC Kennesaw Mtn (GA); Special Teams Practice
• Richard Tisdale, HC Slocomb (AL); Small school practice
• Jeff Steinberg; HC Beaumont (CA); Total Program practice
• Ty Hardin, HC Tupelo (MS); Total program practice
• Adam Gaylor, DC Jenks (OK); Defensive practice
• Jeff Kent, DC Valdosta (GA); Inclement Weather & Thursday Practice
• Brett Sniffin, HC Belton (TX); Total program practice
• Muhammad Abdellatif, DC Kennesaw Mtn (GA); Defensive practice
• Jason Mai, QB Alabama A&M; QB Practice
• Jason McManus; OC Grayson (GA); Offensive Practice
• Jeff Conaway, HC Shiloh Christian (AR); Total program practice
• Greg Jones, HC Liberty North (MO); Total program practice
• Brian Nix, HC Alcoa (TN), Total program practice
• Eric Bendig, HC Phillip Simmons (SC), Total program practice

Coach Parker's Defensive Documents

This course teaches the complements to the Sweeps. These include Reads where we read the DE, DT, ILB along with play action passes that have been our most dynamic plays! 

Athletic Director documents to help any AD or aspiring AD get organized!

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This book gives you 100 different empty formations you can use to help your team. These are formations we used in my time as a Head Football Coach. I was fortunate to be a successful offensive play caller. We scored a lot of points and were able to stay unique, multiple, and give defenses problems. I would constantly get asked about our offense. Here are some reminders I told myself as an offensive play caller:

• Use Formations/Shifts/Motions to run your best plays. Always think of a new way to run your best play before you make up a new play.
• Put the strength (TE, Trips, etc.) into the boundary occasionally and make them chose Field or Strength.
• Avoid their good players. You do not have magical plays. It is about the players.

This book will give you ideas on how to do better with all three of these things!

Coach Parker's Special Teams Documents

Recordings from our Parker Resources Virtual Football Clinic - over 10 hours of great football content from some of the most respected coaches around. 

• Session 1 - Rocky Hidalgo, Head Coach Glynn Academy (GA) - "3-4 Tandem playing defenders and varying run fits"
• Session 2 - Brian Nix, Def Coordinator Alcoa (TN) - "Creeper & Sim Pressures"
• Session 3 - Hal Lamb, Retired Head Coach Calhoun (GA) - "How to Run a Championship Program"
• Session 4 - Rico Zackery, Asst. Coach Kennesaw St Univ - "Defending RPOs in Quarters"
• Session 5 - Tony DeMeo, Retired Head Coach - "Updating the Gun Triple Option"
• Session 6 - Chris Parker, Parker Resources - "Empty Offense Alignments"
• Session 7 - Paul Standard, Head Football Coach - "Combining the Triple Option w/ Wing-T"
• Session 8 - Greg Jones, Head Football Coach Liberty North (MO) - "12 month plan to build and sustain winning culture"
• Session 9 - Chris Parker, Parker Resources - "Head Coach Organization"
• Session 10 - Dan Paplaczyk, Head Coach Judson University - "Recruiting 101"