Post by coach8brown on Nov 28, 2011 11:34:13 GMT -5
A bit about myself first to frame my question. I coach a military intramural tackle football team. We're the Naval Hospital, so we have a hard time getting players to practice due to the customer service nature of our jobs and the shifts we work on.
So, limited practice time. My dream someday, when I've finished my degree and I decide to get out of the Navy is to be a wing-t coach in the traditional Delaware fashion at a high school (or college someday, who knows) and just be an ole vet teaching shoulder blocks and disciplined fakes. I love misdirection. Its my third year (second really, I was in Afghanistan this last season) coaching the team and what I've learned is that the only limit to what we can run is the coaches ability to coach. We were .500 our first season when I coached, won 1 game without me.
Not tooting my own horn, but the replacement coach took the majority of his coaching point from Madden video game catch phrases, and thats usually not good for fundamental football stuff like, blocking and tackling. I got back and since I was still in decompression mode, just watched (and cringed).
So, its my show again and I want to focus on fundamental football. By that I mean blocking, ball handling, tackling and pursuit. So while I would love to go nuts with formations and plays by definition of what I want to do and the already limited time with which to teach it, I have to condense. Your playbook, Coach Metz on this site is about as complex as I want to be by the end of our season.
I love the 20s. It was the base series I played in high school, and I have a lot of fond memories of running waggle and throwing 5 passes a game, 4 of them for touchdowns. (good times) However, with limited practice time and the ability to get every player to every practice and game, sometimes we have to install players into the system on short notice. Our first season I took the I formation that the head coach wanted to run and applied some Wing-T concepts to give us an advantage up front (we ran traps, he wanted to zone block everything - which kept people from getting to the second level in terms of blocking, so I adjusted most of what we ran to Wing T blocking schemes - his 28/29 toss got drawn up like 131/939, etc. But, since I can't guarantee I'll have the same linemen at practice and games, I'm hesitate to run the 20's because you have to be able to trap and pull.
So I think either the 80's or the 30's would be the easiest to start with as a base package. I like the 80's because I think belly and down are really easy installs, especially since 87 keep and 82 follow are such easy additions to get my athletic QB involved, but since I only really plan to run 6-8 different plays, I like that the 30's is more straightforward blocking rules (easier to coach short notice) and has more fun counters (criss cross is a favorite of mine).
What do you think, what else would you base your decision making on in my shoes?
Thanks for your help.
So, limited practice time. My dream someday, when I've finished my degree and I decide to get out of the Navy is to be a wing-t coach in the traditional Delaware fashion at a high school (or college someday, who knows) and just be an ole vet teaching shoulder blocks and disciplined fakes. I love misdirection. Its my third year (second really, I was in Afghanistan this last season) coaching the team and what I've learned is that the only limit to what we can run is the coaches ability to coach. We were .500 our first season when I coached, won 1 game without me.
Not tooting my own horn, but the replacement coach took the majority of his coaching point from Madden video game catch phrases, and thats usually not good for fundamental football stuff like, blocking and tackling. I got back and since I was still in decompression mode, just watched (and cringed).
So, its my show again and I want to focus on fundamental football. By that I mean blocking, ball handling, tackling and pursuit. So while I would love to go nuts with formations and plays by definition of what I want to do and the already limited time with which to teach it, I have to condense. Your playbook, Coach Metz on this site is about as complex as I want to be by the end of our season.
I love the 20s. It was the base series I played in high school, and I have a lot of fond memories of running waggle and throwing 5 passes a game, 4 of them for touchdowns. (good times) However, with limited practice time and the ability to get every player to every practice and game, sometimes we have to install players into the system on short notice. Our first season I took the I formation that the head coach wanted to run and applied some Wing-T concepts to give us an advantage up front (we ran traps, he wanted to zone block everything - which kept people from getting to the second level in terms of blocking, so I adjusted most of what we ran to Wing T blocking schemes - his 28/29 toss got drawn up like 131/939, etc. But, since I can't guarantee I'll have the same linemen at practice and games, I'm hesitate to run the 20's because you have to be able to trap and pull.
So I think either the 80's or the 30's would be the easiest to start with as a base package. I like the 80's because I think belly and down are really easy installs, especially since 87 keep and 82 follow are such easy additions to get my athletic QB involved, but since I only really plan to run 6-8 different plays, I like that the 30's is more straightforward blocking rules (easier to coach short notice) and has more fun counters (criss cross is a favorite of mine).
What do you think, what else would you base your decision making on in my shoes?
Thanks for your help.