no defensive coordinator

What state you in? I'll call a defense if you get me in the school.

I think it's too much time to REALLY perform both duties. Your family and maybe the kids will suffer.

I would assign each of the coaches a list of duties to get a DC by committee. Let's face it, the real job is in the preparation. Calling the defense on friday nights is just the final act. You can assign them questions to research on film. For example:

Coach 1: Take all of the oppositions' plays from film and card them for the scout team vs. your front(s).

Coach 2: Get all of the personnell from film. Chart the personnell for each play. Get with Coach 3 and merge the information.

Coach 3: Note the down, distance and field position tendencies. Chart their plays from film to come up with a tendency chart.

Rotate the duties each week. Then, I would sit down with them on Sunday for an hour or two and go thru what they learned. Determine how you want to defend them, which calls will and will not work, and determine any checks you might need to make vs. personnel, formation, etc.

That's no good. I can teach Chemistry, Math, and Physics. What school you at? I played at Benedictine College for a couple years, and had a bunch of friends from Axtel and Frankfurt.

Bulldog is exactly right. I was a DC for seven years and I can say that for me the hard part was Saturday through Tuesday. By Friday night my job was the easiest.

Get a scouting program and have the asstistants run it for tendencies. Walk them through it early and if they are worth their weight in salt they'll catch on quickly.

Look for things like:

- When they're on the hash we need to run ______.

- On 2nd and medium we need to run _______.

IMO, you do NOT need to try to run the O & the D. Just understand that this will take time. Your staff might struggle the first year, but by year two it will have paid off. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

When I first started coaching I saw a guy who had a weird little wheel that he used to call defense. You know those things that insurance companies, etc. used to use. It was like 3 wheels together. You would turn the one wheel with the year of auto, the 2nd wheel would be the insurance package, and where the window matched up would reveal a price quote--something like that. Anyway, this guy took that idea, put his D and D on 1 wheel, field position on the other, where the windows lined up he had a hash and middle field call. He'd sit in the booth and work the wheel and make his call down to the field coaches. Every now and then he'd throw in something different, but made the play calling easier.

Did someone say any coach can call the defense on Friday night if things are done right during the week? What an ignorant statement. I don't care how many films you break down, what kind of scouting system you have, and how many coaching hours in the week you have to prepare; once that first play is run, who knows what is going to happen. I hope tht was an offensive guy who said that...