1st Batch of A-11 Video (Thanks to Coach Huey)!

Hi Brophy.

This is Steve Humphries, one of the Assistant Varsity Coaches on the Piedmont staff. I helped create this offense with Kurt and really appreciate your interest in our offense. I totally see that you are interested in the nuts & bolts of how this thing works, the method to the madness, reads, adjustments & techniques. I think more film clips will help. Seeing it live is obviously best. You can order (3) full game films from our videographer Griff Adams (510)-653-0606. I am also updating our www.a11offense.com web site with plays & other formations etc. . .Hopefully more progress this weekend. (Not trying to sell anything here, just letting you know where full game films can be acquired)

We ran ~17 A-11 formations this year, and created system that all starts out of our "base" formation graphic. From there as we adjust XAR EBZ our base formation morphs into different looks. These adjustments into our formations can come in the form of a pre-snap shift onto the LOS (or) we can line up in the formation & go. . .Once we set our formation, we can then motion a man across the formation to create overloads or flood situations. We can adjust our 2 anywhere from side to side to help with pass pro too.

With a 3 man line, teams tried to turn up the heat from the outside in almost every way possible. In our 10 regular season games we saw 8 different defensive schemes. We saw 2-2, 3-2, 4-1 fronts, zone blitz schemes, coverage switches, no rush, line stunts. It was great and it forced us to come up with new reads & techniques to counter the defense. For example, adjusting our Q2 with a creep motion helped with containing outside penetration.

In terms of training positions, everyone starts off with base skills for their position, then everyone needs to know open field blocking techniques, QB's R&E need to know pass pro, and zone blocking. . things like that. . .

Hope this provides a bit more insight. Best, Steve

what exactly did you say? several have asked some fairly specific questions but i haven't been able to decipher the answers. the best i can gather is to "wait for more video".

my apologies for seeming crude ... but if that is the case, then maybe we "jumped the gun" on promotion just a wee bit.

as for my specific questions, i would like to know what you are looking for to determine who steps on/off? as in... what determines the playcalling within the system. obviously, matchups are key so what type of things - general - are you looking for on a side to determine if/what you call over there. (example: from trips-open with back weak - we get a 1-5 front weak we call qb lead draw over there, etc.)

what type of things did you call vs a 3-2 look when you were in some sort of "3x2" formation. by 3-2 i mean some type of nose with an edge player on end of los ... 2 lb's within the front

Maybe I'm way off here but as a high school coach (Not a Div 1 or NFL coach) I would be embarrassed to charge money for my game films or a teaching video I would make on my offense.

Some basics in terms of how we organize and facilitate the building blocks of the system.

...Brophy, I already answered your question earlier about the # of how many different player "touches" we get average per game. Usually 9 guys touch the ball per game, as many as 12 per game last season.

Building Blocks:

1. We break the field up into 3 Boxes (Red/White/Blue), from left boundary to left hash, between the hashes and from right hash to right boundary

2. This makes it easy to ID how many Def. Players are in each box prior to the snap

3. For our offensive playcalling it is easiest to call formations if almost every set adds up to at least the number 7 because you must have at least 7 men on L.O.S. when the ball is snapped.

For example: Our Base set is: 232...which translates to (2 men on the line in the Red Box, 3 men on the line in the White Box and 2 men on the line in the Blue Box).

This blossoms from our standard 3x3x3 alignment pre-snap NEAR but not on the L.O.S.

So, when we call, "Base" and a play it would go like this

"Base Stagger 199 Corner"

* The Stagger tells the # 2 Back to align like an UpBack for easier Pass Pro or Run Blocking.

** In terms of what we would call vs. the 3-2 Look Huey asked about:

a. We ID that as a 32 Front (meaning 5 guys in the White Box)
b. Leads are good, Draws are good and quick passing game.


*And for the coach a few posts earlier that said he would be "embarrased" to charge money for his videos if he were a high school coach - that might be the most myopic thing I have read on this entire site. In the future if/when companies call you and want to publish a book or series of DVD's about your system - go ahead and decline it, otherwise think before you speak/type.

**And, you are also embarrased to use your real name on here, at least up until now.

Have a good night coaches, great stuff, gotta go.

Kurt

not sure i know of very many HS coaches that have made a name for themselves outside of their local area/state. I doubt any of you know (or care) who Kent Wigle is, etc.

I am unsure as to the making money debate. If its for my own program it would be no cost for my kids or coaches. If it was a clinic situation then a modest cost to recover my expenses would be ok.

Average Touches Best Guestimate per Game:


X...................R..................U...C...Y.......................E.......................Z
..........A.............................................................................B..........
..........................................2.........................................................
...............................................1....................................................

Player & Avg. Touches (not attempts) Per Game:

X...........................4
A...........................4
R...........................4
2...........................10
1...........................35
Y............................2
E...........................4
B............................5
Z............................6

Give or take, but hard to be exact from memory tonight.

KB

We had a couple of packages to throw to C and U, but had MORE than enough in our first year to install.

Next season more to come...

KB

Could be fun, too bad its against the rules

Against which rules? Are covered players or players with linemen numbers being thrown to and/or are down field? Then what is the problem. I agree with 5085, take some time to read before you spit out an answer.

Well I wouldn't say there's NOTHING illegal about it. Like it's been said a million times, it's a loophole in the rule. Which means, yes, it's technically legal. BUT....If the group of guys that wrote the federation rule knew this would have happened they would have worded it differently to ensure this could not happen unless a punt/kick took place.

I have a serious question for the A-11 coaches. By no means am I trying to downgrade your program in this question. I'm sure behind closed doors you have wondered and talked about this.....
Do you guys feel this offense is the reason for your success this year? I do not live in your state or even follow your states football but I have read several times that your division is weak.
Do you think you would have been just as successful running say a spread offense but keeping your same philosophy, practice regiment, organization of practice/planning. And also can you credit your success on a year of having better athletes than you had there in the past?

I have no idea if you have always played in the division/conference you play in now so this example isn't the best but it does go with my point....

The Coast Guard Academy ( NCAA Divsion III) previously played in the Liberty Conference here on the east coast. This conference is the best of the 2 conferences we have in this area. From 1999-2005 they won just 14 games. In 2006 they moved to the New England Football Conference which is much weaker and have won there side of the Conference both of these two years.

There was an article in the New London Day (regional newspaper where they are located) that was in regards to small school high school coaches complaining they cannot compete with bigger schools. The writer was saying O how good the coaching staff of the Coast Guard Acad. has been to turn the program around. That it was so great that a small school is competing and beating public state schools. The writer was saying that the Coast Guard coache's office should be ringing off the hook with calls from small time high schools asking how he does it. How he can compete and be successful against bigger state colleges.

Since I coached and played in the NE Football Conference I know it is considered very weak. Equivilent to the sun belt conference in D1. I laughed when I read this article. I know the writer was trying to build up his home town team and coach but come on, it doesnt take a genious to realize they are so succesful cause they play very poor competition....And before you say maybe the coach ARE doing a better job than before. No they arnt because before when they were in the tougher conf. they played non-conf. games against NEFC schools and whooped up on them. Now they get to play them all the time. Now when they play Liberty schools they still get beat up on just like they did when they were in that conference. Nothing has changed btu their competition.

Right, but they're using it in Cali- so there's nothing illegal about it since Cali uses FED rules.. Don't get me wrong, I know where you're coming from on this one Tog, and I agree- different rules in different areas.. I'm with you on that one- but for someone (not you) to just rather rudely dismiss it like that without even considering the other possibilities (like FED rules) came off a bit pompous.. Again, I know what you're saying, and usually I'm right there with you- but this offense seems to bring out the venom in people for some reason..

Is this something I would use? Doubtful.. But just as I'm not going to order the DVD's when they come out, I'm not going to just take shots at it almost like a reflex like it seems is taking place..

CoachBryan is a patient dude- LOL.. I see the potential controversy of it, but I don't get where the hatred and vitriol for it comes from- and I'm a rules stickler..LOL.. Not my brand of football, but under NFHS rules it's perfectly legal..

Ahh, either way, it's still football, and I'd rather be talking football than anything else- so it's all good..
;-)

agreed

my point about him being from texas is that i can totally see a texas coach with little exposure to other state's hs football at all
assuming that everyone uses the ncaa rules