Surface to Air

We 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

Understanding 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.

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

This 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

Rich 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? 

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I'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!  

When 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!

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Rich 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 

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The 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!

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Want 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!

Success 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!