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Surface to Air
Creator of Surface to Air
About
He has served as a head football coach and offensive coordinator at the high school level in Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
In 2018 he made the move to the state of Idaho. He is now the head football coach for the Emmett Huskies in Emmett, Idaho. Hargitt’s Emmett HS team finished 1st in the Idaho AAAA classification in pass attempts (242), pass completions (394), and passing yards (2,656 yards).
Since 2017 Rich has been the co-founder and operator Surface to Air (S2A). This service is helping football coaching staffs in 42 states and on 3 continents. S2A is a 24/7 consulting service that provides an extra coach at the table, and allows staffs to Taylor their attack to gain more first downs, score more points, and win more games.
In 2010, he earned a Master’s of Arts Degree in Physical Education with Coaching Specialization from Ball State University. Hargitt’s teams have utilized the Air Raid Offense to upset several quality teams and the offense has produced school record holders in rushing and passing.  Coach Hargitt’s first Air Raid Quarterback, Mitch Niekamp, holds several college records at Illinois College and is currently a starting Quarterback in Europe’s professional leagues.Â
He previously contributed to a six-part video series on the Spread Wing-T offense for American Football Monthly and has been published numerous times in coaching journals on the Air Raid Offense. He has spoken for both the Nike Coach of the Clinics and the Glazier Clinics about the Air Raid Offense. His first book 101 Shotgun Wing-T Plays was published by Coaches Choice in 2012. Coach Hargitt’s second book 101 Air Raid Plays was published by Coaches Choice in 2013. Hargitt’s third book, Coaching the Air Raid Offense, was published in 2014. Hargitt’s fourth and fifth books, Packaging Plays in the Air Raid Offense and Play Calling for the Air Raid Offense, were released in January of 2015. Coach Hargitt has also collaborated with Coaches Choice on a series of DVDs detailing the Air Raid Offense.Â
Hargitt brought the Air Raid Offense to Nation Ford High School in 2011 where he helped lead the Falcons to their first non-losing season, first AAA Region victory, first AAA Playoff berth, and first AAA Playoff victory. In 2012, Hargitt’s offense broke the school single game and single season offensive records for passing yards, touchdowns, and points scored. Also in 2012, Hargitt helped lead Nation Ford HS to the AAAA playoffs for the first time in school history. Â
In 2013, Hargitt helped lead the Ashbrook Greenwave to the second round of NCHSAA AAA playoffs and a 9-4 overall record. He is currently the Assistant Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator at Eastside HS in Taylors, SC. In 2015 Hargitt’s offense achieved a statewide Top 10 ranking, averaged 383 yards per game (231 passing, 152 rushing), finished ranked in the Top 10 of the state and Top 5 of AAA in passing, achieved 2nd non-losing season in 13 years.Â
In 2016 the offense improved even further as the team advanced to the SCHSL AAAA Playoffs. In addition, the offense averaged 488 yards per game (286 passing, 202 rushing) and 41 points per game in the regular season and finished the season in AAAA ranked 4th in rushing (2,127 yards), 3rd in rushing touchdowns (27), 1st in passing (3,311 yards), 1st in yards passing per game (301), 1st in pass completions (257), 1st in pass attempts (365), 1st in passing touchdowns (37), 1st in completion percentage (70%), 1st in touchdowns scored (65), 1st in scoring (453), 1st in PATs made (53) and 1st in total yardage from scrimmage (5,438 yards). The offense also led the state of South Carolina in Total Yardage from Scrimmage (5,438 yards). The 2016 offense also featured a quarterback that completed the 3rd most passes in a game and 3rd most touchdown passes in a single game in state history. In addition, the offense featured a receiver that the 4th most passes in a single game and 6th most passes in a season in state history.
Hargitt’s 2017 Southside HS team broke the school single game passing record and the school single season passing record. In addition, the offense finished the regular season ranked in AAA 6th in rushing (1082 yards), 1st in passing yards (2328 yards), 1st in completions (192), 1st in pass attempts (318), 1st in passing touchdowns (21), and 3rd in completion percentage (60%). Hargitt led the tigers to a 7 point per game improvement from the year before he arrived and helped lead the Tigers to the SCHSL AAA playoffs.
Since 2011, Hargitt’s teams have amassed 24,816 total yards with 14,698 of those yards coming through the air and 10,118 yards on the ground.  Â
Hargitt is married to Lisa and they have two sons Griffin and Graham.
Coach Hargitt can be found on Twitter at: @CoachHargitt
Email: Coachhargitt@gmail.com
From more information on Surface to Air go to www.surfacetoairsystem.com
On Twitter at: @S2ASystem and email at: info@surfacetoairsystem.com
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Understanding Position Maintenance: In M.O.F. Closed Principles
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Views: 2874$25.0Understanding Position Maintenance: In M.O.F. Closed Principles
Cover 1 and Cover 3 are making a comeback. These coverages, that fall under the umbrella of 1 High Safety, are trending and making a rise in order to stop both Spread and RPO offensive attacks.
S2A presents this course with the dual purpose of learning little known and seldom taught fundamentals of coverage, as well as understanding how our offense will be defended.
Points that will be covered in this course:
- Why 1 High Safety coverages are designed to better defense RPO's and Spread Offensive attacks
- Understanding Safety proper Safety alignment to take away the offensive seams
- Understanding Divider rules
- Identifying coverage areas
- Teaching precise alignment, leverage, and understanding of coverage assignments
- Maintaining proper trail position
- Understandind where the coverage help comes from
- Recognizing poor alignment and poor positioning
- Creating a Three Level defense to take away the offenses big plays
- Understanding proper coverage starts from the inside out
Coach Rich Hargett and Coach Bartee also have open discussions about how the offense is attacking and how the defense utilizes counter measures.
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NEW!Cover 3 (1 High Zone) Match Principles vs. 2x2 Formations
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Views: 1464$19.99This course is a continuation of Coach Bartee's first offering that detailed position maintance and dividers in 1 High Middle of Field (M.O.F.) Closed Coverage.
This course goes deeper into the scheme by detailing Match Principles that allows a defense to play cover 3 and 6 and 1 High Match vs. 2x2 Offensive sets.
NOTE: Also see this course: Understanding Position Maintenance: In M.O.F. Closed Principles
Again, Surface to Air System (S2A) presents this course with the dual purpose of learning little known and seldom taught fundamentals of coverage, as well as understanding how our offense will be defended.
This course is packed with Coach Bartee teaching the scheme on both the white board and thrugh game film.
Points that will be covered in this course:
- Position Maintance vs. inside and outside releases (For Corners, Safties, and L.B.'s playing the slot receiver)
- Review of pass defense areas
- Review of Dividers
- Principles of Cover 3 and Cover 6
- Understanding the proper teaching terms for Cover 3 and Cover 6
- Understanding all the Checks for Cover 3 and Cover 6
- Teaching 3/6 Match vs. 2x2 formations
- Teaching and understanding all responsibilities in Cover 3 and Cover 6
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NEW!Cover 3 (1 High Zone) Match Principles vs. 3x1 FormationsViews: 1160$19.99
This course is a continuation of Coach Bartee's first and second course offerings:
The First Course: Detailed position maintance and dividers in 1 High Middle of Field (M.O.F.) Closed Coverage.
The Second Course: Detailed Cover 3 (1 High Zone) Match Principles vs. 2x2 Formations
This course goes deeper into the scheme by detailing Match Principles that allows a defense to play cover 3 and 6 and 1 High Match vs. 3x1 Offensive sets.
Once again, Surface to Air System (S2A) presents this course with the dual purpose of learning little known and seldom taught fundamentals of coverage, as well as understanding how our offense will be defended.
This course is packed with Coach Bartee teaching the scheme on both the white board and through game film.
Points that will be covered in this course:
-Flash Concept: Combining Flood Coverage with Match Principles
-Teaching the Take Back Concept
-Understanding Skake and Mable
-Teaching Skate Coverage with Regular Flood Principles
-Teaching Weak Rotation Flood Coverage
-Understanding "Flooding the Coverage"
-How to react to Back Fast to the Flat
-Defending and Aligning to 20 Personnel
-Defending RPO's from Mable
-Setting Mable to Quads sets
-Positioning the Rotating Safety
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Game Practice System (eBook): An Innovative Restructuring of American Football Practices
Views: 716$11.99We feel there is a better way to practice the game of football.
The standard way most coaches organize and conduct a practice has just been copied and pasted since the Vince Lombardi days. Quite simply, we as coaches have just duplicated the practice process from our own days as a player. Schemes have changed, players have changed, and society has changed. But, practices for the most part have not.
CONTENTS OF THIS COURSE:
The full GPS book
Two volumes of professionally produced videos that provide coaches a full explanation of GPS
Downloads:
Blank schedules
Rules and explanation for S27
GPS Special Teams checklist and practice fair
ABOUT THE BOOK:
This book will attempt to convey why S2A Game Practice System (GPS) is an “edge of the knife” way to conduct a football practice. The Surface to Air System (S2A), is an offensive consulting service. This book will detail our thoughts from our offensive perspective, but the principles can be applied to all three phases of the game (Offense, Defense, Special Teams). In introducing this “outside the box” way of looking at something new in the game of football, we challenge you as a coach to take this information and determine if there’s truly a better way of doing things.
Ask yourself, “Is the way we’ve been conducting practices since I was a player really the most effective way?” Offenses have evolved, the passing game has evolved, and off-season methods of training have evolved. Why hasn’t practice evolved?
The objective of this book is to make football a better game through the utilization of S2A GPS. It is our specific objective to check the following boxes when developing this practice method:
-Get more kids out for football
-Create scenarios in which players have a richer knowledge of the game
-Create practice situations recreating game situations that lead to more success
-Create a safer game-Score more points
-Win more games
Again, we check those boxes with our main tenant: “If any activity is done in practice that does not directly have an impact on the actual game, we do not do it.”
It is our sincere hope that football coaches will take from this work the following:
-To implement a system that allows for a safer game by reducing the amount of time preparing, that reduces the repetitions for contact, and thus lessens the eventuality of injuries.
-To implement a system that eliminates the need for the overuse of contact, but heightens the ability for game preparedness.
-To implement a system that captures and keeps the learning attention span of even the lowest level learner
-To implement a system that elevates the abilities of second and third teamers, and thus increases their value to the overall makeup and depth of the squad
-To implement a system that elevates the practice role of each member of the coaching staff
-To implement a system that leads to both recruiting more and keeping more young people playing the game
-To implement a system that leads to more wins
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The Big Game: Rich Hargitt Breaks Down Every Single Play Call
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Views: 6201$9.99Rich Hargitt, creator of the Surface To Air Offensive System takes you through an entire game from start to finish!
Spend over an hour listening to one of the nation's elite offensive minds cover topics like:
Situational football
Your call on 1st down just sent you backward. Now what?
What about 3rd and long?
What if you just hit an explosive play on the defense? Should you press the advantage, or maybe try to pick up something easy underneath.
These situations and many others are covered in this course.
How to design an opening drive
Learn how Hargitt calls his offense differently early in the game compared to later on, and more importantly, why.
How to use RPOs in your game plan
The Surface To Air Offensive System uses a heavy dose of RPOs to make the defense wrong every time!
Learn how Coach Hargitt combines several dangerous concepts into a single play call, and when it's the right time to use them.
Learn from his mistakes
There's nothing worse than watching a presentation full of long touchdown passes and 75 yard runs. What happens when things don't work perfectly?
Coach Hargitt goes through the mistakes he made during the game, and what he would've done differently.
Your kids aren't going to execute it perfectly every time, so why pretend otherwise?
Don't wait, book this course now!
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Surface to Air Offense: Starter Package
Views: 5416$24.99I'm Rich Hargitt, the creator of the Surface To Air System. If you're looking for some new ideas for your offense, you'll want to keep reading...
Here are our state offensive rankings from last year: - FIRST in total passing yards (3,311) - FIRST in passing yards per game (301) - FIRST in passing touchdowns (37) - FIRST in TOTAL touchdowns (65) - FIRST in scoring (453 total points) - FIRST in pass completions (257) - FIRST in completion percentage (70%) - FIRST in total yards from scrimmage (5,348) - THIRD in rushing touchdowns (27) - FOURTH in rushing yards (2,127) I'll be the first to admit, a lot of that is because of the players we had. BUT, it's also because we've got a system in place that allows them to do what they do best. I Believe in the RPO It's been very, very good for our players, and even more importantly, defensive guys can't seem to figure it out. Don't believe me? Just ask one of the best defensive minds in the game today: "I don't think there's any solution to RPO's" - Nick Saban Want to know more? I don't have all the answers, but what I do have is a set of principles and strategies that have put our offense in the top ten in the state... ...For the past seven years in a row! Now, I'm sharing my exact thoughts on play calling, game planning, and much, much more. I've written several books, produced dozens of videos, but I've never done anything like this. What people are saying: "Coach Hargitt's system is simple, sound, and an exciting brand of football." - Shawn Watson Co-OC/QB Coach University of Pittsburgh "Personnel advantages are always a fear in game planning and preparation. Coach Hargitt neutralizes those disadvantages by the way he teaches and installs his system." - Rod Smith Co-OC/QB Coach University of Arizona "Coach Hargitt's system is a simple, yet complete, package for coaches who are interested in installing the spread offense. The terminology and assignments allow for effective teaching and thorough player preparaion." - Pete Lembo Assistant Head Coach University of Maryland "There are two things that make us successful: repetition and simplicity of plays. Coach Hargitt has done a great job of implementing RPOs in the Surface to Air System in a way that's easy to understand. Now all that's left to do is attack!" - Matt Mumme Offensive Coordinator University of Nevada Here's What You Get: - A complete video breakdown of one of our best games from last season where I go through every play call and why I called it. - Two seasons' worth of film cut ups of our RPO package to give you plenty of ideas for this fall. - A complete whiteboard installation clinic covering how we teach and call plays with RPO's. - An online presentation where I cover 10 of my favorite One-Word RPO's, complete with game film. - Almost three hours of video on the RPO! - Lifetime access to all materials! Don't try to run the RPO until you get your hands on this vital information! Grab this course now and become a more dangerous offense!Views: 5416$24.99 -
Surface to Air Offense: Solutions to Anti-RPO Man Coverage
Views: 4102$6.99When the defense adjusts to your RPOs, what's your Plan B?
One of the most popular ways to defend the RPO is for defenses to play straight up man coverage across the board. So what's your next move?
In this course, Rich Hargitt, the creator of the Surface to Air Offense, takes you through topics including:
- How to beat man coverage
- How to find answers using your base plays
- Moving the pocket to keep the defense off-balance
- And more!
Don't wait, book this course today!
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Air Raid 3.0: Where the Air Raid meets the world of the RPO
Views: 2238$24.99Rich Hargitt, creator of Surface To Air (S2A) takes you into the world of the 3.0 Air Raid Offense.
3.0 is where the Air Raid meets the world of the RPO
Spend over an hour and a half (90+ minutes), coupled with 70+ in-game video clips, of Hargitt detailing where the offense has been and where it is going.
Enter into the mind of Coach Hargitt as he details where offensive football lives in 2019 and beyond.
This course will cover topics like:
- Defining where the offense has been: Air Raid 1.0 (Definition slides included)
- Defining where the offense has been: Air Raid 2.0 (Definition slides included)
- Defining where the offense is currently, and where it's going: Air Raid 3.0 (Definition slides included)
- Showcasing the 4 Drop Back schemes (4 Verts, Y-Cross, Shallow Cross, and Mesh)
The evolution into the 3.0 Offense (Film video evidence)
- Understanding and executing Post-Snap Read RPO's
- Giving the Q.B. autonomy by allowing him to execute Frontdoor throws
- Utilizing surface changes to take advantage of the defense
- Adding tags to hurt man coverage
- Using motion to take advantage of defensive schemes
- Using RPO's to exploit the 2nd level of the defense
- A 3rd level RPO
- Going off the reservation: Throwing wrinkles into the offense
- Utilizing PAP's
- Inserting the T.E.
- Gap Run RPO's
- Outside Zone Run RPO's
- S-Calls as drop backs
Don't wait, book this course now!
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Surface to Air Offense: Best RPO`s
Views: 5408$6.99The run-pass option (RPO) is taking over the game at the high school and college level. Now learn from one of the game's foremost experts on how to incorporate them into your offense.
Rich Hargitt is the creator of the Surface to Air Offense, and in this course he covers lots of topics including:
- How to teach and read the RPO
- Pre-Snap vs Post-Snap RPOs: What are the different reads?
- Using motions to stress the defense
- Using traditional run schemes out of one back and empty sets
- And more!
Become a better coach and book this course today!
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Surface to Air Offense: RPO Structure
Views: 4464$6.99Want to use the RPO in your playbook but not sure where to start?
Rich Hargitt, creator of the Surface to Air System, takes you through his installation process, as well as some of his favorite plays, and gives you a fundamental understanding of what the RPO is, why he likes it so much, and how you can implement it into your program.
This course covers topics such as:
The two main categories of RPOs and how they're taught
Coach Hargitt takes you through the QB's reads on the board and on film, and gives you a simple teaching method that will give you answers during a game, as well as when you're trying to install this with your team.
Gives you a solution for complex defenses
Defenses today are better than ever, and you need answers. With the RPO, you'll always give your QB a place to go with the football. If you've got a young or inexperienced player at QB, it can help you manufacture big plays and consistent yardage while keeping the reads and progressions very simple.
Easy to run but hard to defend.
The RPO is based on time-tested offensive principles, only applied to new plays and formations. The offense is trying to make the defense wrong no matter what they do, and so the defense has to spend a lot of time preparing for every scenario. Keep your opponents up at night trying to think of ways to stop you.
Prepare your players for the next level.
Colleges across the country have added the RPO to their playbook. Give your kids a leg up on the rest of the competition by running a college-ready offense at the high school level.
What are you waiting for? Book this course now!
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Surface to Air Offense: Solutions to Anti-RPO Red Zone Defenses
Views: 3165$6.99Success in the red zone is usually the difference between winning and losing.
Rich Hargitt is the creator of the Surface to Air Offense. In this course he covers some of his favorite strategies for scoring in the red zone, including:
- Using the pitch from the gun
- Moving the pocket with creative pass patterns
- Using RPOs near the goal line
- Using "gimmick sets" and other wrinkles to gain an edge
- And more!
Don't wait. Book this course today and get better in the red zone!
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