In today’s post I wanted to set the stage for the upcoming summer. For most of us, this is a really exciting time of year. If you are coaching at a small school, you have most of your kids back as spring sports are concluding and kids are starting to focus once again on the […]
Hey Coach, I hope you had a great week. I wanted to drop you quick note today and just encourage you as you enter the offseason. I was reflecting on this as we celebrated at our team banquet yesterday. This year, we did not have the on-field success that we were looking for. There are […]
Well, we are off and running! We just finished up fall camp and our first game is next week Saturday. Many of us already have one game in the books. So, with that in mind, I thought I would entitle this post…”Remember THIS at the start of the season.” Remember to HAVE FUN! It was […]
It’s Spring and that means it’s passing league season. Now, as a passing game guy and air raid enthusiast, I happen to love 7 on 7. But, there are also some inherent flaws with this part of the season that really irk me. So, in reflection of our first 7 on 7 passing tournament of […]
SPREAD RUNNING GAME TIPS Hey Coach, thanks again for checking out this post and for being a loyal subscriber. I really appreciate it. Today we are going to look at a few spread running game tips. I had a question this week on the blog and I thought that our conversation might benefit everyone, so […]
Hey Coach! Ok, for the last couple of weeks we have been exploring practice plans and gameplans. I just wanted to let you know that if you didn’t get last week’s email, I attached a call sheet in excel format as an example of how I go about constructing a gameplan. Today I want to […]
Today’s post comes from an email question from Coach Jeff Governale. He had a few questions about a few topics related to Gameplanning that I thought were relevant to all of us. So, I thought I would let you in on a little part of our conversation. GAMEPLANNING WITH SCOUT CARDS Let’s start with this…I […]
The last two blog posts have been about why I think the Spread Offense is the perfect offense for high school. In the first article we looked at some of the philosophical reasons why this system works…it attracts kids, it keeps you efficient, etc. In the second article, we started looking at some of the […]
Last week’s post was entitled Why I love The Spread Offense. If you missed that, I definitely recommend going back and reading it. It is basically a discussion of my personal philosophy regarding how and why we choose to run certain systems and why I choose to run the spread offense. To summarize, the main […]
For the next several weeks we are going to go back to basics and talk about why we believe in the Spread Offense. I have said it before and I will say it again. I love the spread offense. But there are a ton of great offenses and there are a ton of great systems. […]
