Scott Fountain - 4 Phases of Punt Return

Description

Arkansas Special Teams Coordinator Scott Fountain is know for creating top return units. In this presentation he details the four phases which occur during a punt return and the technique and details which the Razorbacks coach in order to give the offense great starting field position.

Lessons

1 4 Phases of Punt Ret 3:20 2 2 Avenues of Departure 3:15 3 The Battle 5:06 4 Peak The Returner 3:15 5 Rip Thru 4:57 6 Competitive Drill Work 3:30 7 1/2 Line Punt vs. Punt Return 2:18 8 Full Field Wild West Drill 2:03 9 Base Schemes 4:48 10 Getting Vertical 2:32

The Coach

Kansas Football Coaches Association

Scott Fountain is the assistant head coach and special teams coordinator for head coach Sam Pittman at Arkansas.

Fountain came to Arkansas after spending 2019 at Georgia in the same role. The Bulldogs experiences immediate success under Fountain's guidance. Fountain is known through the coaching ranks for creating a top return game.

Before joining Georgia’s staff, Fountain spent the previous eight years as a member of the football program at Auburn, t as the Tigers’ player personnel director and then coaching tight ends and special teams.

Fountain, a part of three SEC championship teams, led Auburn’s administrative and recruiting efforts from 2009-12. He followed Gene Chizik to Auburn after spending two seasons (2007-08) on Chizik’s staff at Iowa State as tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator.

Fountain has coached in four national championship games (1997, 2010, 2013, 2017) since beginning his collegiate coaching career at Florida State (1994-96) as an offensive graduate assistant. He then spent seven seasons as an offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Central Florida. Before his eight-year stint at Auburn, Fountain also included coaching stops at Middle Tennessee State (2004-05), Georgia Southern (2006) and Iowa State (2007-08).

He began his coaching career in high school, making four stops in Alabama, including Flomaton HS (1988) and W.S. Neal HS (1989), his alma mater. He became a head coach for the first time at Frisco City HS (1990-92) and made his final high school stop at Monroe County (1993).