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Post by coachbw on Nov 13, 2006 22:32:44 GMT -6
I have seen a lot of colleges going to Co-Offensive Coordinators, or Run Game Coordinators and Passing Game Coordinators. Does anybody out their have co-offensive coordinators? If so, how are their weekly and game day responsibilities broken down?
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Post by wildcat on Nov 14, 2006 6:09:06 GMT -6
That's what my job was this year. I was the guy who called the offense down on the field while talking to the OC upstairs.
Essentially, my main responsibility was taking the blame for the way the offense played. ;D
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Post by coachjd on Nov 14, 2006 6:13:58 GMT -6
This is how it has been for me and our head coach the past 6 years. I was responsible for gameplanning the run game and pass protections and our head coach would game plan the passing game. After we both presented our ideas to each other we did our best to merge the 2 ideas into one game plan. Is it the best situation to be in?? It had its moments were I was wondering why we it do it this way, but for the most part it worked. The key is to make sure both sides are communicating!!!
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Post by coachbw on Nov 14, 2006 7:36:31 GMT -6
Coach, how did you guys handle play calling? Did you have one person call the plays, or did you have one person working on the running game and the other calling the passing game.
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Post by coachjd on Nov 14, 2006 9:10:23 GMT -6
I'm up in the booth and tell the head coach what I would like to run and he either calls the play or calls a pass play.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2006 15:05:50 GMT -6
Bill Snyder of Kansas State almost always used the setting that you are talking about. He had a run and pass game coordinator. Supposedly the co-coordinators would each plan a play call right after the previous play finished and Snyder would say run or pass to determine which one would be called.
He also had co-coordinators on defense, such as Bob Stoops and Brent Venables, etc. I don't know how they worked the call out amongst themselves. Maybe one called front while the other called coverage.
If you can find any resources from the Snyder days at K-state they may help you. It worked for them.
On the other hand George O'Leary always said that co-coordinators always meant that two guys would get fired instead of one.
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Post by fbdoc on Nov 14, 2006 16:26:35 GMT -6
It's hard enough for one guy to get his calls straight let alone two. Unless the two guys are just super football minds, and have a "perfect" feel for the team and the flow of the calls, I would much rather have each of them focusing on a single point such as OL, RB's, or WR's and then provide input, occasionally suggest a specific play... Maybe they're already doing that and that's why they are called "Co" coordinators. Just don't need the extra title - don't feel like it would work with our staff. My 2 cents.
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Post by ocinaz on Nov 14, 2006 22:59:16 GMT -6
I was in hte same boat this past year....I put together our playbook, worked on the practice plans for spring installation, and when the regular season came around I did practice plans and game night call sheet. But when gametime came, HC made a majority of the calls. Early on, I made most of the calls, then as the season wore on, he made most. I even asked him to just be up front with me, and if he wanted full control, he could have it, i just wanted us to be succesful and I didn't care who called the plays, I am not that much of an a**hole...I wouldn't mind a bit, if he was up front, but he assured me that was not the case, so we will see what happens next year, I will talk to him again when we have our end of season evals, etc....
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