How many teams do you play/scout that are well-coached?

To add - I get that most guys are just trying do a good job and are working with rough situations.

Where I'm at almost everyone we play is very well-coached. Where poor coaching shows up is on special teams - although most are getting better there than it used to be.

We play several that are well-coached... I know their coaches and I know that they do a good job, but 15-18 year old kids sometimes don't do their jobs.

Last week, the FIRST thing I put up on our HUDL for scout-film was tunnel screen. Showed them clips of them running it against their week 1 opponent, pulled up a cutup from 2 years ago of us defending it and literally hitting the WR so hard they didn't run it the rest of the game (2 years ago), and repped it in practice during the week... Friday night opponent went 3-4 for 200 yards and 2 TDs on tunnel! (90 yd. TD, 60 yd. TD, 50 yd. gain, Incomplete. Half of their offensive yards for the game. Looked like we had never talked/discussed it. NOT A HAPPY DAY FOR THE DC.

What I am seeing is a greater variety of scheme. With the ease of access to film and social media football coaches showing the inner workings of NFL/NCAA teams, the coordinators are getting more comfortable with doing more stuff. Pre Covid we got pretty much generic spread football from most opponents. 

On the other hand, I am seeing less focus and worse fundamentally sound football. Just basic stuff like stance & start, back pedal, route running, blocking and tackling.


My guess is that there are less position coach craftsmen out there who really grind on basics and get the repetitious minutia correct. The running joke around here is the visor wearing OC with the facemelter offensive wizardry, but the truth is scheme is what is getting glorified in football and the people who create football content are pushing their products. You will get more hits on your Youtube page showing the new way to run Mesh that you will showing WR blocking drills.

The bad teams do execute poorly. So instead of getting better at what they do, they think getting a new scheme and making a new adjustment is the way to go. Then you see them doing a whole bunch of stuff really badly....

The good teams, on the other hand, do a few things really well and make slight adjustments within what they already do when necessary.

With that being said, the teams we play are pretty well coached here in Southern California. And we're not in one of these crazy good leagues or divisions. We're a middle of the road public school team. 

I am unfortunately guilty of falling into this despite not wanting to be like that. I guess it's just easier and natural to slip into conversing in the terminology that came with the system you learned the material from. I will say though if I fall into that and someone asks me what something means, I will gladly and willingly explain to the best of my ability what the term means to me, whereas some folks on the web have a tendency to give you the run-around in one form or another when you ask them for the meaning of the term, or, give you demeaning answers like "You don't know that term?? Get a clue!!", or ask you for your authentication credentials and Magic Decoder Ring.