Running a "unique" offense with a stud player

Shrink the playbook.Be who you are, want to be.I have said it before, my first boss, my hs coach would run inside veer, counter trey and mid line. When I was coaching there, there was no pitch element. THAT WAS IT. 99.9 pct of the calls.
But what we had was Virginia, Colorado, Tenn Tech, UF, florida atlantic, tenn. michigan, stanford, usf, on the offensive line.
Then my mentor put em through the progression. Boards, shoots, sleds, one on one’s, 2nd step down, hands inside frame. Those “SPECIAL KIDS” would turn that sled because the less than special couldnt do it early in the season. By middle of the year, sled moved down the field pretty close to a perfect line(which is what you want) And EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I guess my first response here would be why do you consider those offenses “unique”? Just because they are less common on Fridays and basically non existent on Saturday and Sunday? I would agree they arent common, but would bot say THAT makes them unique compared to 10-11 personnel gun stuff that is prevalent in football today.

That said, I think you are on the right track given what you said about your lineman. Look for how your athlete’s comparative superiority can benefit your team. For lineman- 1) run behind him more. Lol. The obvious one. 2) change up standard traditional rules to benefit other lineman- at the detriment of your stud because his ability will compensate. 3) Maybe look at playing two ways (if you dont already do so).

For skills- the offensive system- even the ones you labeled unique, should be deep enough to feature any spectacular talent on the field shouldn’t they? Reggie Bush was a halfback in the wing t. Rich gannon was a qb. I believe Brett Favre ran option with his dad as the coach (could be wrong).

There are particular circumstances that would call for adjustments. One that comes to mind is having a left-handed passer.

Usually I'm more concerned with a lack of talents, which would require trimming the playbook, or the player who is so good he gets away with doing things wrong but could be better if he did them right.

Years and years ago in the DTDW we had a D1 RB. ... ran all the same stuff with a few bells and whistles ... he proceeded to run for 1500+ yards 25+ TDs.

Whether traditional or non, you need to be able to find ways within your system to "highlight" those sort of players.

I was in one program that had run the Double Wing for like 20 years, and we ended up with a stud QB for the first time ever. The natural solution to this was to have a package with both ends split out wide and the QB in gun - we could still run most of the base run plays and still make use of some quick game and vertical passing.

We had to do the same thing in a spread offense when we had a stud X receiver, but had lost a lot of our other skill position players by his senior year. His sophomore and junior years we had a couple other receivers that were weapons so teams had to play sound coverage, but once he was the only thing left he would just get bracketed every play. We ended up moving him to an off the ball role for a lot of the time to find different ways to create match ups.

Regradless of the offense, I think you need to look for creative ways to highlight your best players, whether they're blockers, passers, tacklers, etc., rather than making sweeping changes.

I would echo to not over think it. Depending on type of skill player, some kind of direct snap package using your base run schemes. The NYS championships were this past weekend and Rocket/GT combo and dive/keep combo won one of the games. In my experience the issue can become designing the touches so that the stud runs to both the left and right.

A QB in PA based offense will still be making throws to spots, the trouble will be the protection.

The stud WR is at the mercy of a combination of the QB/OL. Chuck-up in HS is a legitimate play that doesn't require to pass block for a while. Reverses are great too.

In terms of the OL, most of those recruits don't start as Freshmen. As a result there is time to catch up on pass pro skills.

Put the elite player in the most important spot that suits his skills in your offense.

Then take advantage of his abilities by either feeding him the ball or working behind his blocks.

There's no need to do anything fancy.

Growing up, a school in my area had a couple of D1 prospects in football and a stud athlete who got a scholarship to play PF at Wake Forest. They still ran the wishbone and won state doing it. The QB was under center (and at 6'9" with a very low stance, it looked funny), their 230lb stud who got a D1 scholarship at LB played TB so they could feed him on Double Iso, and the other guy was an OL they ran behind all the time.