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 backfield
21:06 Coach’s contribution to the gameplan
23:32 “Program Guys”
24:34 How coach deals with success and failure
27:27 Coach’s talk at the Lauren’s First and Goal Clinic
29:03 Winning Edge
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