The Victory Corner Podcast
The Victory Corner Podcast is dedicated to the craft of coaching and the power of leadership. Each episode explores ideas, experiences, and innovations that shape successful programs, from building foundational infrastructure to creating a winning culture. Host Steve Scanlon, a coach with nearly two decades of experience, shares insights on recognizing and rewarding the daily efforts of players and coaches to drive growth. The podcast aims to help listeners win on and off the field, not just for the next four years but for the next 40.
Episodes
Lessons from a Great Teammate
Learning lessons for life through the game of football when experiencing the actions of a great teammate.
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Full Court Press
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Guerrilla Football: Kickoff Team
In this episode we discuss the outlook of being extremely aggressive on the Kickoff team, playing outside the box and refusing to allow the best athletes on the field to get a 40 yard head start and 50 yards of open space vs your non best 11 defenders, break free and cost you a game.
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Guerrilla Football: Trick Plays
In this episode we continue the discussion on embracing unconventional football and playing to win. Trick Plays, when to use them and the best design ideas.
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P4 Development
On this episode we are joined by Coach Marcus Wilson of McDonogh high school who has coached 32 D1 football players while at McDonogh including 3 current NFL players and 19 current D1 guys. We discuss what makes players successful and able to reach that level of ball,
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Guerilla Football
This episode discusses unconventional football and the lessons to learn from outside the game and how the Air Raid and Option offenses utilize all players to stress and break the rules of engagement for football.
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How to build a TOUGH Football Team
This Episode we define Toughness and tackle the ways to try to build and instill toughness is our football teams. What actions directly correlate to toughness and why it is still so important.
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FG Block
Situational Foot ball: FG Block. On this episode we discuss our ideas of what to prepare for when you get a block and it is recovered as well as how to create an opportunity for a block when you most desperately need it.
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"Oskie!"
In this episode we discuss the turnover battle, explosive plays and who needs to be blocked to turn an interception into a pick 6.
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Victory Formation
No Huddle Episode. Situational Football: Victory Formation. We discuss and review the fundamentals of Victory Formation. How to align, every players role and how to protect your team and secure the win.
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"The Game is Won!"
No Huddle Episode. Situational Football; Hands Team. Coaching points on how to teach and prepare to secure the ball and secure the Victory in an Onsides kick situation.
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Next Chance U
Next Chance U; A Head Coach's role in the college recruiting process. Coach Rob Davis joins us to discuss his outlook and what he feels are the HC's responsibility and role in the recruiting process for his players. Coach Davis is a football coach for over 30 years, has had 120 programs offer his players scholarships, has guided over 75 players to go on to play college football, including 17 playe
The Process
We talk with a current high school TE Jake Lund, who holds 5 Division 1 Offers about the recruiting process, what players should focus on and how the process is going in today's climate where less than 1% of high school players are going D1.
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Clinic Notes: Glazier AC
On this episode after attending this year's Glazier Coaching Clinic in Atlantic City, we review the notes of what stood out the most. Ideas of how to improve as a Head Coach and some things that stood out on the Defensive side of the ball.
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Situational Football: OT Strategy
In this episode we discuss the idea of mental reps as a Coach, how you can prepare for when you have the job, before you have the job. We outline some Overtime strategies to help your team be successful in that situation.
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Situational Football: 2 Point Play
Rapid Episode idea focused on the 2 Point play. We outline some big picture ideas of types of plays and then describe plays that have worked where I have coached before.
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The Sophomore Curse
This episode we talk about the yearly tradition of younger players, often your rising sophomores who might not be willing to put the work in to be successful come fall and how they should be looking at what awaits them.
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Interview Mobilization
In this episode we discuss what are some of the key factors when determining if you should take a job and what are the key ideas that you put together to prepare for an interview and what to outline as your action plan when you get the job.
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Bowl Szn to Portal Szn
This episode of the Victory Corner Podcast we check in again with Safety Coach Gabe Martorano of Troy University. Troy played in the Thank You Veterans Bowl in Montgomery Alabama vs long time rival Jacksonville State after winning the Sun Belt West. We look at the madness of the Portal process and the perks and spoils of being a bowl team.
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The Right to Fail
In this episode we discuss how to force players to deal with overcoming failure through the avenue of physical training to help empower the mental side of the game. Hope to be a winner through losing and why sports are the most important avenue we have to prepare young people for the adversity that life will challenge them with
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Leadership Development
On this episode we are joined by Schalick Cougars Head Football Coach Kevin Leamy, who helped lead the Cougars to a 3rd straight Sectional Championship appearance in his first season as head coach. Coach Leamy has built an off season leadership development program to instill and model how to be good leaders on and off the field. He walks us through an outline and what he thinks players don't under
Be Bold
In this episode of The Victory Corner Podcast, Coach Steve Scanlon reflects on the holiday season, the importance of pursuing dreams, and the lessons learned from coaching experiences. How challenges almost always prepare for future successes and why to Be Bold when facing career decisions.
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Breakout Season
How to best position yourself to have a breakout season next year as a player.
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Winter Lifting
As you and your team transition from Post Season to off-season, here is an example of weight room programming styles used to help players maximize their strength gains.
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Turn the Page
Wrapping up one season and transitioning into another off season. How to have the smoothest of shifts and best prepare and improve your program.
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Sr. Recruiting SZN PArt 2!
Follow up episode with information regarding what to look at through the recruiting process. What to ask coaches recruiting you, How to train and prepare to be a college football player and how to attack the financial side of your recruitment.
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Recruiting Szn! Sr. Cycle Kickoff
Pregame shout outs for some of the best coaching jobs this season in the area. Sr. Football recruiting timeline and pointers from someone who was a college player, a college coach and a high school head coach. Here is what to expect.
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Halloween Special! End of Season Traditions
Halloween weekend games. Coastal Carolina glow in the dark jerseys, Pick 6, the scariest players in College Football. End of year traditions to make the finale of Football season, fun, memorable and important.
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The Perfect Shot
Comparing coaching to a perfect golf shot. Where all the rest of the frustrations of the round disappear when everything clicks for your players or team.
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Double Practice Development
This episode talks about the idea of how to structure your practices to maximize your roster and develop your players exponentially by copying the strategy of the college level. While still utilizing your most talented players and make sure young players have a plan for growth.
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Relentlessly Positive
Helpful outlook and mindset keys while coaching a difficult season.
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Big Pond
Discussing the challenge of players developing while in college and deciding whether to stay at their current program or transferring to play at a top team in the country competing for a a National Championship
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Confidence is King
Discussing the influence coaches can have in building confidence with their players and how it will positively impact their team's performance.
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Social Media & How to control the Message around your program
Utilizing social media platforms and how to take advantage of their reach in designing the identity of your program.
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A Down Year
Suggestions for areas to focus on when it becomes clear a team may be on track for a down year. How to make sure your players are improving, having fun and still getting better.
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Rough Start
This episode looks at the advice we should all take if our team is off to a rough start. What to continue to focus on and how to best prepare. to play well and win.
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The Muse
Discussing the opening weekend of College Football. Major milestone of a fellow coach, a former player being named a college team captain and where we can draw inspiration from for how we wish to develop our program and create a unique culture for our team. That and a Pick 6, a quick set of 6 things discussed around coaching football right now.
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Week 1 Adjustments
Different packaged plays and formations to help jump start and offense or help create greater challenges for the opposing teams you play.
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First Game!
We discuss the opening to the college football season, some of the best social media football follows, this week's college football slate. We highlight the Battle at the Beach Football Classic in Ocean City NJ and how it started and some of the early season issues I had to learn the hard way as a head coach.
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It's Good! 302 Kicking
Former College Kicker and Punter, High school kicking coach and Kicking trainer joins to discuss the importance of specialists and how to best prepare them for the moment when a team needs them most. Coach Matt Backer discusses the mental and physical approach to one of the most pressure positions of sports. Matt is the owner of 302 Kicking, the largest Kicker training company in the state of Dela
Playing Time
This episode discusses how important playing time is in the hierarchy to your players, how to best prepare players mentally for their role leading into an off season and how to guide them to maximizing their opportunity to have a great experience in your program.
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Win the Scrimmage!
This episode discusses setting up a preseason to best prepare your team for game day especially in today's accelerated football calendar. Outlook's and ways to "win" a scrimmage and a coaching life hack to make sure you control how to best protect your players from injury.
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Ready for some Football
This episode we discuss different ideas and simple things that you can add to your program to help make your players excited about the upcoming season and looking forward to the year.
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Camp Kickoff
Memories, drills, pranks tips for players to be successful in fall camp and reminders for the coaches how to have the best and healthiest fall camp for preseason football.
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The Next Level
Discussing the previous 3 episodes and guests and the insight they shared on making it to the next level, from High school to D1. Then discussing my experience as a college football coach in recruiting and how to best prepare yourself to be a college football recruit. How to maximize your exposure and be best prepared for the whirlwind that is college recruiting.
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It was All a Dream
We are joined by EHT Football alum Michelot Sine and discuss his journey from D3 Football, leaving school and returning home, working full time, going to a JUCO program to play college football again with the dream of playing D1 and how he turned that dream into a reality.
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Road to Glory
Troy University Assistant Safety's Coach, Former Highland Regional QB in South Jersey Gabe Martorano joins Victory Corner to discuss his experience coaching at the D3, D2 and D1 levels. He shares what players can do to maximize their opportunity to be recruited and make it to the next level, some of the sacrifices he has made to become a D1 coach at such a young age, what he loves about coaching,
Meat Market
FCS National Champion North Dakota State University Director of Recruiting Pat Lilly joins us to talk about all things recruiting. What players should do to maximize the process. What areas players may be coming into college underdeveloped. How he found his way into a recruiting and off-field role. His most memorable experiences as a college coach, and college football junkie and more.
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The Blueprint
In this episode we dive into suggestions on how to continue to unpack your vision as a coach after developing your Mission Statement. We look at how to collect all the items you want your program to incorporate as you gather your ideas and begin to create your blueprint
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Mission Statement
This episode dives into the 1st question that many Head Coaching interviewees get asked during their interview. In this episode we want to dissect and start to create an outline of how coaches will build their program, what becomes the foundation and what was the inspiration for what became the Mission Statement I use today. Programs have the exact culture that they earn, by design or default. Cra
Pilot: Find a way to Win
Introducing the idea behind the show, The Victory Corner Podcast and the experiences that led to diving into developing an energy within a program. Exploring how to create a winning program and discovering the key components to success.
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