Inside the Headset Presented by CoachComm
Mike Bloomgren, Head Coach – Rice
April 18, 2024
This week on Inside the Headset – Presented by CoachComm, we sit down with Mike Bloomgren, the Head Coach at Rice University. In this conversation, Coach Bloomgren takes us through his career that has taken him to schools across the country, explains the value of coaching at different levels of football, and talks through how he took the lessons others taught him and applied it to his coaching. Coach Bloomgren, who led the Owls to a bowl game last season, was recently selected as a member of the AFCA Board of Trustees.
Follow Coach Bloomgren and Rice Football on social media here:
1:05 Starting out as a football coach, playing football vs. coaching football, including your significant other in career decisions.
17:23 Sharpening your tools as a young coach and experience coaching in the NFL.
28:15 Opportunity to coach at Stanford, interviewing and hiring coaches, making the jump to being a head coach.
43:42 Turning down head coaching jobs in order to find the right fit, creating a culture, being named to the AFCA Board of Trustees.
For more information about the AFCA, visit www.AFCA.com. For more interesting articles, check out The Insider and subscribe to our weekly email.
If you are interested in more in-depth articles and videos, please become an AFCA member. You can find out more information about membership and specific member benefits on the AFCA Membership Overview page. If you are ready to join, please fill out the AFCA Membership Application.
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Mike Bloomgren, Head Coach – Rice
This week on Inside the Headset – Presented by CoachComm, we sit down with Mike Bloomgren, the Head Coach at Rice University. In this conversation, Coach Bloomgren takes us through his career that has taken him to schools across the country, explains the value of coaching at different levels of football, and talks through how he took the lessons others taught him and applied it to his coaching. Coach Bloomgren, who led the Owls to a bowl game last season, was recently selected as a member of the AFCA Board of Trustees.
Follow Coach Bloomgren and Rice Football on social media here:
1:05 Starting out as a football coach, playing football vs. coaching football, including your significant other in career decisions.
17:23 Sharpening your tools as a young coach and experience coaching in the NFL.
28:15 Opportunity to coach at Stanford, interviewing and hiring coaches, making the jump to being a head coach.
43:42 Turning down head coaching jobs in order to find the right fit, creating a culture, being named to the AFCA Board of Trustees.
For more information about the AFCA, visit www.AFCA.com. For more interesting articles, check out The Insider and subscribe to our weekly email.
If you are interested in more in-depth articles and videos, please become an AFCA member. You can find out more information about membership and specific member benefits on the AFCA Membership Overview page. If you are ready to join, please fill out the AFCA Membership Application.
