Matt Drinkall

Culture OS – Series Highlights with Guest Host Rob Pomazak, Head Coach, St. Charles North High School (IL)

In our final episode of Culture OS for 2024, Rob Pomazak and Keith Grabowski share their key takeaways and the common threads running throughout the series, focusing on aspects of mission, vision, purpose, and trust.

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Culture OS – Matt Drinkall, Offensive Line Coach, Army West Point

In this first episode of Culture OS, guest hosted by Rob Pomazak, Army Offensive Line Coach Matt Drinkall shares insights drawn from his extensive coaching career and offers valuable leadership and program development lessons.

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Less Is More: Strategic Practice Management

Matt Drinkall, Pete Shinnick, and Kirk Fridrich delve into the importance of balancing practice intensity and recovery, cutting practice time, and utilizing technology to monitor player workload.

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Keeping the Team Focused and Motivated

Levi Nelson, Loren Johnson, and Matt Drinkall talk about celebrating things outside of wins and losses, focusing on a theme each week, and even outsourcing vocal messages to the players, even on game day.

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Creating Individual Drills and Practice Periods That Translate to Game Day

Matt Drinkall, Kyle Segler, and Brendan Walsh share valuable ideas for focusing your individual time and practice periods on the aspects of your scheme and technique that specifically will be used in the next game.

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Mid-Camp Evaluation and Adjustments of Personnel and Scheme

Dante Bartee and Matt Drinkall express thoughts on evaluating players and deciding who is most ready, while developing down-roster depth. They also share ideas on what schemes should be getting repetitions heading towards the season’s first kickoff.

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Defeating the Tite Front – Matt Drinkall, Co-OC and OL Coach, Army

The tite front has now gained popularity across all levels of football. Coach Drinkall shares a plan for defeating the tite front, including some of his go-to plays.

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Best of Coach and Coordinator: Maximizing Tempo in Your Offense

This “best of” episode shares the ideas of 11 coaches on maximizing the advantages of tempo by how it is structured, the plays run with it, how it’s game planned, the mechanics of playing fast, and how it becomes engrained in culture.

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The RPO of the Year

First mentioned in AJ Smith’s episode of OC Office Hour, we unpack one of the emerging trends of 2022 through the perspectives of some of the foremost offensive coaches in college football.

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