Building Culture and Coaching the Tight End – Nick Sheridan, Offensive Coordinator, Indiana

Building Culture and Coaching the Tight End – Nick Sheridan, Offensive Coordinator, Indiana

From the Archives: On today’s podcast, host Keith Grabowski welcomes Nick Sheridan, tight ends coach at Indiana University, to the latest episode of our “Training Camp” series. Coach Sheridan also coached the Hoosier quarterbacks in 2017 and 2018. In 2017, Sheridan was named one of the nations Top 30 coaches under 30 years of age by 247Sports.com. Prior to Indiana, Sheridan worked as an offensive grad assistant at the University of Tennessee from 2014-16. Sheridan joins the podcast today to talk about how he advances the play of the tight end position throughout training camp.

Show Notes:

1:47 Coach’s journey
3:35 How Coach’s exposure to different coaches growing up and playing shaped him
5:40 Learning in two different systems
8:57 Different aspects of coaching tight ends
11:32 Installation
16:28 Positional walk throughs
19:02 Pillars of his TE group
22:27 Highlighting the positives during camp
25:12 Individual period time distribution
30:40 Using as many different players as possible
34:05 Evaluation process
39:53 Winning edge