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Post by tog on Jan 24, 2013 10:56:50 GMT -6
One of the factors was enjoyment. What do I enjoy coaching and what would I enjoy if I was a player. One of the things I HATED as a player was 30 minutes of stretching and form running. One of the things that intrigued me early in my coaching career was throwing the ball at the high school level. I was lucky to be "growing up" at a time when Hal Mumme's UK offense was getting notice, and I studied all that I could. Today I think we have a system that I know our kids really enjoy- not because its in style, but because it is fun. And because myself, and the coaches that I surround our kids with, all enjoy the scheme- I feel like we practice and execute it very well. Despite what many of us have been conditioned to believe, "fun" is a perception that you create as a coach. I've seen Straight T and Double Wing teams that have convinced their kids that demoralizing your opponent by running the same plays over and over again and not being stopped is fun. winning is fun we like doing what gives us the best chance to win we don't do things that are in vogue/popular/perceived as fun by the kids for that reason alone knocking people down blocking them is fun why? it allows you to win throwing and catching is fun why? it allows you to win
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Post by bluedevil4 on Jan 24, 2013 14:37:38 GMT -6
I'll try to give a POV from an assistant who has yet to be handed the keys to an offense:
When I was in HS, we based out of the flexbone, but also ran a lot of stack-I (every Monday, our HC/OC basically installed anything Air-Force ran from the Saturday before). I fell in love with the veer, and it is permanently engrained in my head. After HS, we continued with that system for a couple more years, then ran wing-T for a year under a new staff. Got to coach with an ol'-timer wing-T guy and learned a ton from that. Now, we run an H-back offense with mostly power and zone schemes, plus more drop-back passing then our school has ever ran.
I have learned mostly the veer and this H-back system. So on the side, I'm trying to create my system. Right now, I know two things: 1. I will be running the veer (whether it be midline, ISV, or OSV), because it's the only system I can coach off the top of my head without hesitation. 2. I will use a lot of 2-back sets and multiple formations, which is what I have taken from our current system. I can also coach a zone run-game now thanks to the offense we have now, and I love the method of zone running.
The biggest bind for me now, is do I want to be a downhill zone/power team first, or a veer team first. What I have noticed, is that when I've tried to combine everything I've learned, I've ended up with the split-back veer, using the TE, flanker, and one of the RB's as the guys to move around to out-formation the defense. I say SBV over I-option because I want to hit the defense fast with the dive and emphasize the 3 1/2 yard per-play mentality. In order to run zone, we'd move one of those SBV running backs, and just put him behind the QB at 7 yards (now have an offset I, which is what we run most of our current system out of). Now we have SBV and zone capability. Sounds expensive, but it's their if needed.
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