The game has passed me by?

And the areas had names like sky, purgatory etc. He said you didn't want to hang in purgatory to long and go to the blue sky. I use to have that book and loaned it out and never got it back.

Don't know where that came from coach. Maybe involuntary finger response? :-)

Coach, you and I are very close in age.  Like you the new age way of running offenses is very different from what you and I learned, knew, and taught.  I've been able to "catch on" to some of these new terms and the method to their madness.  The way I call my offense is still rooted in what I was always told (K.I.S.S.) but today while that acronym still applies you and I have to work on the translations to figure it out.  My issue isn't with the terminology, or the use of funny pictures on posters on the sidelines, or any of that.  My issue has EVERYTHING to do with the way kids and the younger coaches talk to one another today.  I can't figure out WTH they are talking about half the time!  I don't want to ask, and have them laugh at me.  THAT'S what makes me feel like a fossil.

OK so tell me if this makes sense:

Silver Flex: formation call.
I'm OK with that, I used formation colors as well. I try to use R colors to the right, i.e. Red, and L colors to the left: Blue.  Black / Brown, Green / Gold etc.

Unh, Silver is both an R and L color! As is Purple. 

Denver: POA and play type.  As I recall Denver is Power Left, because Denver is West of the Mississippi.
Do my kids know enough geography to recognize this?

I know my Bangladeshi left tackle, who has never seen a football game doesn't have a clue.
Each POA / Play description has a different city or state, some have multiple names to try to outsmart the defense. Oy!

Ghost is the position of the H-back. He is the only one who needs to know that

Scat is the H-Back's motion, same as above

Open X tells the X receiver to split extra wide.

"On three": I don't know about your kids, but anytime we go on anything but one we lose 5 yards before the play starts! 
We had six possible snap counts. Do you think they allowed the kids to get off the ball better?

The bignose first rule of football: Don't do stupid $hit to beat yourself!

Football games are very hard to win, but very easy to lose if you set the kids up to make mistakes by the complexity of the system.

It really isn’t that complicated. You are, respectfully, old, but not to old to learn or grasp things you already know in a different way. 

we did the NFL thing. Qbs were passes running backs were runs. Warren moon would be warren to the left, moon to the right.

I’ve been the DC on a RPO team the last 3 years and we never read routes. We have a presnap that we can throw based on the corners leverage and we have a read. We read a LB if he steps up we pull and throw. If he stays we hand off the ball.

I got a bucketload of film a couple years ago on one of our state's premier warp-speed RPO facemelter score 90 and tip my visor to you offenses. 

Took me about 6 quarters of film to be 100% certain that their RPO QB was just picking whatever option of the post-snap read he liked better and going with that....mind made up well before the snap. I could always tell because he'd half-ass or rush the mesh on a play that was supposed to be a fancy high-tech post-snap RPO. 

I've never been a fan. If I want to run the ball, I want to run the phuscking ball. I don't want some cocky 16 year old trying to pad his stats pulling and throwing a slant.p to his WR buddy. Most quick pass plays are already putting an under-coverage guy in conflict anyway, so I never understood the whole "OR WE CAN HAND IT OFF" mystique. 

Maybe I'm the dinosaur, but in HS, this just seemed sexy for sexy's sake. I mean, {censored}, how many defensive reactions are you expecting where you need to read that stuff on the fly? It also seems a little disingenuous because a HS QB throwing the ball to his HS WR Buddy on his own is rarely going to be as efficient as running the ball, particularly if one of this guys is having a bad night. And , if you're catching a dual responsibility defender sticking his nose in on run, that's what old school tried-and-true playaction pass calls are for. I trust my press box guy to make that decision. Not Johnny McDinkmuffin the QB. 

By wondering aloud about the "Game Passing me by". I remember as a much younger coach than I am now, listening to parents and other coaches talking with one another about a coach who was somewhat younger than the age that I am now.
He had experienced a couple of less than successful seasons after decades of winning, and I heard this phrase used in describing his offense.

As Lombardi succinctly put it: "Football is blocking and Tackling."
You can win running the Single Wing, the T, the Veer, the Double Wing, but loose a couple of games running what is perceived as an "old fashioned" offense, and you will start to get some resistance from the "know nothings."

I sometimes get the feeling that parents would rather see you lose running a Spread offense that doesn't match your talent level, then win running something contrarian.

But perceptions about what you are doing is a part of the coaching conundrum. Run what is perceived as an "old fashioned" offense, and lose and the sniping from the stands begin, no matter how sound your schemes are.

In regards to my original post, listening to the Glazier presenter, he obviously had a much better kid at QB than I will have in my current situation.
In my 45 plus years of coaching, I have had perhaps 3-4 kids who I felt that I could cut loose and give them "the keys to the team bus" to make those sort of on-field decisions during the game.
All of the others, no. In my current situation, as a JV coach with many kids who have never played football before, it would be way over their heads.

Somewhere in the "ancient past" early 1980's or so, I discussed what was called the "Norfolk Option" with one of my senior QB's. I had taught the kid since middle school so I knew him fairly well. Bright kid, very good athlete.

The Norfolk Option was a 4 way read, a Triple Option with a built in RPO.
From a SBV Pro formation, the QB could Give on the Inside Veer Dive, Keep the ball outside of the tackle, pitch the ball to the trailing HB, or pass the ball to the arc releasing TE if the secondary support player came up to defend the pitch.

His response was to look at me and roll his eyes. This would have overloaded him. He didn't think that this was a good idea, eventhough it "looked good on paper."

The point is, this is what I was getting at.
If contemporary football requires that I coach that type of offense, i am truly left behind.

Bill, I can't quite agree with you on this, based on personal experience. In 2010 we won a State Championship running the Double Wing. We threw 3 passes in the game.

Damned if two days after the final, we had a parent go to the principal complaining that we weren't doing enough to get his son, a junior wide receiver, to get his kid a college scholarship. Our team achievement meant nothing to this selfish parent.

As to toughness, can't argue with you there. 
In my current situation, I am coaching in a school where the kids were never allowed to play rough games like Dodgeball growing up. We are playing against a couple of teams where the kids "played Dodge with rocks."

It's a whole different mindset and we had to spend half of the season convincing the kids that is was OK to be aggressive.

The "entertainment factor" of the NFL and even CFB has definitely trickled down to HS football.

As bignose  inferred, "fans" (aka parents) would rather see a long incompletion than a well-executed Trap play that gains six yards.

It's as if they think you're not trying to score if you're UC or not passing.

This is a lot of crap to remember. If a play call can't be done in 4-5 words it's a waste of time. 

Rip Ravens is a common call of mine. 2x2 winged H base zone right bubble RPO back side. front side solo runs a choice route. 

Do people not have rules anymore? No tag on a run = stalk-bubble to the twins, choice to the solo? 

BUD WILKINSON: "A Coach must be skilled in SALES, as well as MANAGEMENT.

He must SELL his product (and what a difficult task that is). You must make players feel that what you are doing is the only way to win. If they lose, the players would rather blame you than themselves. They'll say, “the Pros don't use our offense – our Coach isn't as smart as the other Coach”.

To present this requires a clear-cut plan that you can explain to them clearly and they believe it. If it doesn't work it's because they didn't execute! That is what they have got to believe.  A Coach must be a SALESMAN to the extent that they must think they've got the greatest offense in the world, and if it doesn't work, it's THEIR fault."

THAT'S SALES!!!

PS:  It is incumbent upon each Coach to present HIS system in this manner to his players (their parents) & fan base!