Pros & Cons: Coaching O vs. Coaching D

I agree. No question defensive prep work is harder.

Offense is awesome and defense sucks!

The difference in offense and defense is this...
On defense no matter how well you have played on the next play the offense might score.
On offense no matter how bad you have played on the next play you might score.

Probably a lot more pressure on the defense these days due to tempos/vast differences in offensive schemes...

Also, if not two platoon, usually, less practice time during the week than the offense to prep for an opponent...

Defense constantly has to adapt to the different schemes you see week to week. You need to have every kid on the same page every play.

Offense gets to rep the same plays every week and just has to go out and execute those same plays. Most teams put their best players on defense though so this is not as easy as it sounds.

A typical HS game has about 50 offensive snaps.

If you do everything wrong on 90 of your plays, but you do just enough right or have one stud kid who breaks loose on the other 10%, you've scored 5 TDs and done your job.

If you do everything right on defense 90% of the time, but have big screw ups from one player the other 10%, you've given up 5 TDs and failed.

That's it in a nutshell. Even more than offense, defense is about limiting mistakes.

I like this quote

Offense -Cons none
Defense -Cons none

If you have the chance to coach on either side take it and learn and enjoy it as much as you can.

IDK. If you have frosted tips and aren't a time traveling member of a boy band from 2002 you probably want to coach offense

And even if the offense does screw up and turn it over, that's bad for the D too. I recall last year when Missouri beat Florida 42-13 (42-0 through 3 quarters) in spite of just 119 yards of offense and 7 first downs. Missouri scored four TD's on special teams and turnovers. If you only saw the score, you'd think Mizzou's O had an easy time with Florida's D, but that wasn't the case at all.

When your defense only gives up one TD (and it was on a 19 yard drive) and you lose 42-12, that's quite a clusterphuck on O/ST. One of many reasons Muschamp is no longer with the Gators.

It's easier to break into high school ball on the defensive side, at least in my area. Everyone wants to coach offense, coach QBs and call plays.

Defense is more work, but I think it gives you the ability to scheme more. Both sides come down to the Jimmy's and Joes, but I think you can do more with less on defense if that makes sense.

I disagree.

Offensively, it's easier to emphasize your best players and cover up for your worst players. You can put any great players at QB or RB and make sure they are the focus of the play every single time. You can also take an awful player and stick him out at SE and basically play ten on ten. And if your OL is not up to par, you can read, use blocking angles, misdirection, etc. to make it so that they don't have to necessarily overpower the defensive front for the offense to move the football.

On defense, I think you have to be better across the board because you don't determine the POA. One superstar defensive player can't take over a game as easily as a superstar offensive player, that scrawny 120 lb. WR is more easily exploited as a DB, and that undersized OT now has to stand on the railroad tracks as a DT and blow up a trap play.

I think you need a better overall group of athletes to be great on defense.

^ that being said, OCs receive all the glory when "their offense" goes nuts for major points. Just like mentioned above, even if those points were in large part owed to outstanding field position and opportunities because of defensive and special teams play.

And it's easier for a great offensive player to do something like this (below) and change the scoreboard on a play that should have been stopped in the backfield.