Using the over formations with all 5 eligible receivers to gain the numbers advantage. Part 2: The Passing Game. By:…
Post- Season Priorities –
Wrapping up one season and transitioning to the next are critical times for successful programs by: JohnAllen SnyderHead Coach, Indiana…
Evaluating Staff
Managing Your Program: Evaluating Staff – Creating an Environment For Success by: Keith Grabowski 0 The season ends, equipment is…
Off-Season S & C
Strength Report: Writing the Winter Off-Season Strength and Conditioning Program, Part I by: Mike GentryWhile Associate Athletic Director for Athletic…
Maybe Your Best Offensive Coordinator is a Girl
Football lessons from a world champion gambler by Jay Stolfi Your best offensive coordinator is a girl. More correctly, your best play‐calling analyzer is a girl. She is Annie Duke, author of the book Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts If you’ve ever been the play-caller in a football game, you know that making smart decisions without all the facts is the essence of the job. Duke is a Columbia University graduate and pursued a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Despite the Ivy League education, she is most known for her poker playing abilities. Duke accumulated over $4 million of tournament poker winnings including several World Series of Poker championships. Life, she explains, is a lot like poker. As I see it, so is football In Thinking in Bets, Duke makes the case that the thought process that leads to success in poker is the same thought process that leads to success in business, relationships and other important life situations. In poker, she says, you have to make critical decisions with very limited information…and you have to make them in real‐time. She goes on to give about 250 pages of detailed explanations, scientific data and tells plenty of amusing anecdotes regarding how the mind works and how to correctly analyze the outcomes of your decisions.…
multiple looks
by: David Purdum Head Coach Bob Stoops recognized the stress the up-tempo, no-huddle put on a…
Kentucky’s Best Passing Game Drill
blast from the past by: Mike Leach(When he was Offensive Coordinator University of Kentucky) 0Football coaches often ask each other,…
The Art of Play Calling
What goes into an Offensive Coordinator’s game plan?by: W. Keith Roerdink 3A good play is easy to spot on game day.…
5 Keys to Building Your Program Through Off Season Training
5 Keys to Building Your Program Through Off Season Training By Robert Pomazak MS SES PES Head Coach St. Charles North The…
Money Play
By Coach Sobolewski Here’s a sample play we run that is tough to defend but super easy to teach. I…