Clinic Season Almost Over -- Who was good?

The best clinician I saw this was was Bob Shoop from William and Mary. It was him an overhead and a marker, he spoke for almost two hours because it was right before dinner and he talked as long as we asked questions. Not one minute of BS. This was in sharp contrast to the rest of my clinic season which was the worst in my years of coaching. on three occasions the speakers stopped talking over TEN minutes early. I can not remember a speaker EVER finishing early. On two other occassions, the speaker literally acknowledged that they were not going to speak on the subject they were suppossed to speak about. what a bunch of crap. another session I went to the speaker passed out handouts and literally read them word for word. WTF. We are doing a couple of private visits in the next few weeks so those should be pretty good. also going up to the DeMeo clinic in April

Sometimes "spread" is all about perspective. I was talking to a family friend who played for a rival school a few seasons ago. I had heard his coach, a longtime Wing T coaching legend, was going to "spread it out a little" and I questioned the kid about it. His eyes lit up and he said, "yeah, this is what we're doing!" He then in great detail drew up the I formation for me, lol!!

As far as clinics go, I unfortunately only made two this offseason, but both Bryon Hamilton and Mark Speckman were terrific at the AFM clinic in KC. If any IL guys get to see Heath Fullerton speak on oline play, he is outstanding as well. I saw him speak at the Graphic Edge clinic in Jacksonville, IL.

Todd Spencer Georgia Tech, hands down best i have seen and talked to in a long time. Got to meet him and pick his brain at the Flexbone Assoc Clinic in Dallas.

So going off in a bit of another direction but...why not just get up and walk out of the talk and goto the other speaker then? If it's not what you thought and your not getting anything why not go to one that you might get something from.

DITTO. I did not see the East ILL coach but

WILKINSON from Oklahoma Central U
CAMPBELL from Illinois College
EMENDORFER from UWP
BLAKENSHIP from Tulsa

all were fantastic!!

INDY MEGA

COVERDALE and the rest of the TRINITY HS staff were AWESOME!!

Heard Jim McNally at Tulsa Glazier

He is a good one.

Urban Meyer at the Nike COY in Tunica was great. He talked for 1.5 hours and talked about offense for 10 minutes at the most. The rest was about playing hard and as a team.

I heard a coach talk about man/zone route combinations and what he did was put a highlight up of his son and how great his sons were. I walked out because it was a joke.

Matt Moore of TT did a good job at the Dallas Glazier. Mecer from P. West did a good job.

Charlotte Glazier Clinic. John Blake and Mcnally were both very good.

Glen McNew spoke at MegaClinics in Boston, Green Bay, and Pittsburgh. I heard him in Pittsburgh and, as usual, his room was packed. He is very knowledgable on many areas on both sides of the ball. If he is at a MegaClinic near you and his topics are of interest to you, by all means, get there. He is retired now so he isn't like a lot of other speakers who hold back the "good stuff" because of opponents being in the audience. He is also very appproachable via the phone or email for follow-up sessions at no charge. He'll encourage you to call him at the end of his talk.

Charlotte, Atlanta, Cleveland and Harrisburg Glazier Clinics (I really like those things)... McNally was great, finally saw Coverdale and he's fantastic. Greg Gregory was a nice surprise (South Alabama), Blankenship from Tulsa... stumbled in to Chuck Apap on Saturday morning in Harrisburg and was amazed, I was ready to apply for head jobs at tiny schools so I could install the Wing-T. G.A. Mangus, QB Coach from South Carolina was good, as was Steve Spurrier Jr (never thought I'd say anything good about that family).

It was worth the massive debt I rolled up, school only paid for a car and hotel in Charlotte.

This is what I always do.