What seems standard to you now, that isn't to others?

Oh man, I know you wrote that you didn't want this to be malicious, and I'll try not to, but there are a lot of things out there that people do that just blow my mind. I was lucky enough to spend most of my coaching career, especially my early years, on good staffs with people who knew what they were doing. So when I landed on lesser ones I was shocked.

You mentioned practice plans, I would add to that just organization as a whole. There is a general idea of what needs to get done, but nobody maps it out and it leads to blindspots, missed steps, and overlap of coaches not staying in their lanes.

Along those lines, actual coordination by coordinators. You don't just call plays, you coordinate. You need to make sure the drills the position coaches are teaching (get to that later) fit within your scheme. So many coordinators just expect position coaches to come in and coach 'em up. And even if they do coach them stuff, said stuff doesn't fit. Coordinators should know precisely what they want the position coaches teaching, how to teach it, and when. They should then make sure that the PCs know this and how to do it. Unfortunately, most coordinators don't do this; they are either lacking the knowledge and structural understanding of how to implement it, or don't want to be seen as a micro manager, so they let PCs do what they want, and it doesnt mesh.

Then there is the actual teaching of techniques. Lots of teams out there have coaches who don't really teach technique. Some may "tell" the players what to do, usually with a phrase that the players don't fully understand. Others show them, but continually coaching and enforcing technique, its shockingly rare. Coaches just have them perform full game situation movements (ie block this play) without refining, drilling, and repping the precise how. Blows my mind how many kids play football without being taught how to play their position.

Athletic development and understanding of the human body is shockingly lacking. I'm not writing you need to be a kinesiologist, but I have seen multiple programs where coaches implement weight programs that end up harming the athletes physical development, and ignore the development of muscle groups.

Accountability is another one. I get, a lot of people are handcuffed by the admin in how they can discipline players and address issues. But there is a lot of 'turning a blind eye' out there that really shocks me. Sometimes its coaches not wanting to anger a star player, other times its not wanting to deal with issues. Its awful.

In any case, soapbox away for now.

OK, you got me to bite.

My first question- Who is the better player/bigger threat between the QB or the outside guy? I generally prioritize who has the bigger chance of {censored} us before I worry about adjustments.

Let's say it's Cam Newton, who made that play popular. Cam Newton is the dive portion of Power Read, and Michael Dyer (one of their two main RBs that year) is the sweep portion

Oh man, I know you wrote that you didn't want this to be malicious, and I'll try not to, but there are a lot of things out there that people do that just blow my mind. I was lucky enough to spend most of my coaching career, especially my early years, on good staffs with people who knew what they were doing. So when I landed on lesser ones I was shocked.

You mentioned practice plans, I would add to that just organization as a whole. There is a general idea of what needs to get done, but nobody maps it out and it leads to blindspots, missed steps, and overlap of coaches not staying in their lanes.

Along those lines, actual coordination by coordinators. You don't just call plays, you coordinate. You need to make sure the drills the position coaches are teaching (get to that later) fit within your scheme. So many coordinators just expect position coaches to come in and coach 'em up. And even if they do coach them stuff, said stuff doesn't fit. Coordinators should know precisely what they want the position coaches teaching, how to teach it, and when. They should then make sure that the PCs know this and how to do it. Unfortunately, most coordinators don't do this; they are either lacking the knowledge and structural understanding of how to implement it, or don't want to be seen as a micro manager, so they let PCs do what they want, and it doesnt mesh.

Then there is the actual teaching of techniques. Lots of teams out there have coaches who don't really teach technique. Some may "tell" the players what to do, usually with a phrase that the players don't fully understand. Others show them, but continually coaching and enforcing technique, its shockingly rare. Coaches just have them perform full game situation movements (ie block this play) without refining, drilling, and repping the precise how. Blows my mind how many kids play football without being taught how to play their position.

Athletic development and understanding of the human body is shockingly lacking. I'm not writing you need to be a kinesiologist, but I have seen multiple programs where coaches implement weight programs that end up harming the athletes physical development, and ignore the development of muscle groups.

Accountability is another one. I get, a lot of people are handcuffed by the admin in how they can discipline players and address issues. But there is a lot of 'turning a blind eye' out there that really shocks me. Sometimes its coaches not wanting to anger a star player, other times its not wanting to deal with issues. Its awful.

In any case, soapbox away for now.

There have been one or two threads about it recently.  A lot of colleges are running it in the Midwest and some high schools in MN.  Actually just one high school now since I was told it can't be done at the high school level.

If we're playing Cam Newton in Central Illinois 1A football we're {censored}.

In reality, if the QB is the better athlete, we're probably telling the DE to hit him immediately, tell the OLB and CB to get off a block, set an edge and let a pursuer follow the near hip and hope he cuts into pursuit that's pursuing at top speed.

Oh man, I know you wrote that you didn't want this to be malicious, and I'll try not to, but there are a lot of things out there that people do that just blow my mind. I was lucky enough to spend most of my coaching career, especially my early years, on good staffs with people who knew what they were doing. So when I landed on lesser ones I was shocked.

You mentioned practice plans, I would add to that just organization as a whole. There is a general idea of what needs to get done, but nobody maps it out and it leads to blindspots, missed steps, and overlap of coaches not staying in their lanes.

Along those lines, actual coordination by coordinators. You don't just call plays, you coordinate. You need to make sure the drills the position coaches are teaching (get to that later) fit within your scheme. So many coordinators just expect position coaches to come in and coach 'em up. And even if they do coach them stuff, said stuff doesn't fit. Coordinators should know precisely what they want the position coaches teaching, how to teach it, and when. They should then make sure that the PCs know this and how to do it. Unfortunately, most coordinators don't do this; they are either lacking the knowledge and structural understanding of how to implement it, or don't want to be seen as a micro manager, so they let PCs do what they want, and it doesnt mesh.

Then there is the actual teaching of techniques. Lots of teams out there have coaches who don't really teach technique. Some may "tell" the players what to do, usually with a phrase that the players don't fully understand. Others show them, but continually coaching and enforcing technique, its shockingly rare. Coaches just have them perform full game situation movements (ie block this play) without refining, drilling, and repping the precise how. Blows my mind how many kids play football without being taught how to play their position.

Athletic development and understanding of the human body is shockingly lacking. I'm not writing you need to be a kinesiologist, but I have seen multiple programs where coaches implement weight programs that end up harming the athletes physical development, and ignore the development of muscle groups.

Accountability is another one. I get, a lot of people are handcuffed by the admin in how they can discipline players and address issues. But there is a lot of 'turning a blind eye' out there that really shocks me. Sometimes its coaches not wanting to anger a star player, other times its not wanting to deal with issues. Its awful.

In any case, soapbox away for now.

What are the things you do in coaching that seems very standard to you at this stage in your career but you forgot/forgotten they aren't/weren't done by everyone? I don't mean this in a malicious way, or "they're an idiot for not doing x" but just something you just assumed was understood/practiced/done by other people but are apparently not.

Someone on this board mentioned coaches that do practice without a practice plan and I forgot that (though hopefully considered standard practice) wasn't universal.

On a similar note I don't understand how people practice, especially defense, without a script. 

On a similar note I don't understand how people practice, especially defense, without a script. 

Do you then establish the situation for the play call? Otherwise you as the dc could be calling a short yardage defense, and they hit you with all verts. They succeed, but it doesnt fit with the situation you as the dc were coaching for.