CEDAR FALLS – In his first coaching job at Green Bay Southwest high school, University of Northern Iowa defensive line coach Bryce Paup learned an early, valuable lesson.
Paup made an assumption that the older players on his team would be the leaders.
“I expected the kids to just lead,” Paup said. “Then, one day it occurred to me. It was, well, dum-dum, if you want them to tackle and you never practice it or never teach them how to tackle and you yell at them all the time to tackle in a game because they are not doing well, how dumb are you?