SIDELINE SCIENCE / COACH BARTLETT
The science behind the skill. The coaching that brings it to the field. Practical reading and resources for coaches, athletes, and sports parents.
FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE SIDELINE
Wisconsin Lutheran College · Tight Ends Coach
What does your player need to see
before he knows where to go?
NEW TO SIDELINE SCIENCE?
FOR FOOTBALL COACHES
Start with Friday Night Transfer, the free guide to designing drills around the assignments, reads, and decisions your players face.
Get the free coaching ebook →Explore position and practice resources →FOR SPORTS PARENTS
Explore practical ideas on learning, confidence, and the conversations around youth sports. Start with the ride home after a game.
Read about the car ride home ↗Explore Sideline Science →01 / THE EQUIPMENT ROOM
Coaching ebooks for position development
and practice design.
Build position work around the reads, fits, and decisions a linebacker faces on Friday night.
Focus tackling work on the approach and the decisions that bring the defender into position.
Design scoring and constraints that connect competitive effort to the skill you are trying to teach.
02 / FROM SIDELINE SCIENCE
Football coaching · Athlete development
A practical guide to studying the assignment, checking technique, and taking one clear fix into practice.
Read on Substack ↗Sports parenting · Sports science
What young athletes reported about postgame conversations, with ideas for letting your athlete lead the ride home.
Read on Substack ↗Football coaching · Sports science
A coaching discussion of blocked and varied practice, decisions, and what your individual period asks players to read.
Read on Substack ↗THE SCIENCE / THE SCHEME / THE SIDELINE
Research can help us understand how athletes learn. Coaching connects that understanding to a player, an assignment, and the next rep.
Sideline Science brings those conversations together. The newsletter explores the evidence. The Equipment Room gives coaches resources to organize their teaching. Friday Night Transfer is the coaching principle underneath it: prepare players for the decisions the game asks them to make.
MEET THE COACH / SAM BARTLETT
I coach tight ends at Wisconsin Lutheran College and teach science at Elkhorn Area High School. Sideline Science brings those two parts of my work together: understanding how people learn and helping them put that learning into practice.
Former head coach at Whitewater High School. Former defensive and special teams coordinator at Racine Horlick High School.
My story & coaching philosophy →
FREE EBOOK / SIDELINE SCIENCE
How to Design Football Drills That Actually Show Up on Gameday.
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INCLUDED WITH A PAID SUBSCRIPTION
The Friday Night Transfer Coaching Toolkit
Get a practical companion to the free ebook: fillable planning tools and completed examples that help you connect the assignment, the drill, and the game.
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14-PAGE GUIDE + SEPARATE DOWNLOADS
Type into the PDFs or print for your practice binder. Full coaching ebooks in the store are sold separately.
SIDELINE SCIENCE / ON SUBSTACK
Football, learning, and athlete development from a coach who teaches science. Clear takeaways, with room for what the research can’t tell us.
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