Scoop Reed

Nkere "Scoop" Reed began his coaching career at his alma mater, Richland (Wash.) High School, in 1998. After graduating from Oklahoma Christian University in 2003, he continued as a coach at Fort Worth Christian School. Scoop also had stints at Keller Middle School, Haltom, Corsicana and Wylie High School before landing as a running backs coach at Northwest Byron Nelson High School in 2010.

Articles by Scoop Reed

• Developing a high school football team

  Thursday, November 14, 2013

  Coaching is not just about winning and not just about teaching a set of skills. It is about passing on a way to look at the world and succeed in it. As coaches we are here to create independent, self-reliant, mature young people. To create this we have to give them life skills that will last them long after football. At the very core of what we believe is that those life skills will create a winning culture.

• The fundamentals of ball security

  Wednesday, October 30, 2013

  As offensive coaches, we study turnover ratios and design plays that will keep the football in our team's possession. In my years as a player and a coach, I have had difficulty understanding that if turnover ratio is important to the offense, then why don’t offenses spend more time practicing drills to protect against turnovers — specifically fumbles? Maybe we do not value possession of the football as much as we say.