Rebuilding and Sustaining Culture: "Restore the Rock" w/ Eric Knickerbocker

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Eric Knickerbocker discussing his experiences in rebuilding football culture at Rockville High School.

On The Coaching 101 Podcast, hosts Daniel Chamberlain and Kenny Simpson interview Connecticut head coach and author Eric Knickerbocker about rebuilding and sustaining football culture at Rockville High School after 15 straight losing seasons. Knickerbocker shares his 22-year coaching journey, how studying leadership and culture books led him to write Restore the Rock, and how reflective writing helped him evaluate what worked and what didn’t. He explains that early turnaround efforts focused...

People in this episode

Hosts: Kenny Simpson, Daniel Chamberlain

Guest: Eric Knickerbocker

Topics covered

• football culture
• coaching
• leadership
• turnaround efforts
• reflective writing

Keywords

• football
• coaching culture
• leadership
• reflective writing
• turnaround

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rockville High School

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