Coaches Clinic

Topics Covered:

1st Key – Practice Planning

1. Importance of a Plan.
   1. Pre-season, prepare a blueprint (skills, drills, systems, etc.).
   2. Then, fill in weekly plans to construct the house.
      1. Offensive install plan
      2. Defensive install plan
      3. Skills to master
         1. EDDs to master skills
         2. Drills that build on prior mastered skills
2. Be mindful of practice design.
   1. Get the body moving before teaching.
   2. Pay attention to attention spans.
   3. Where and how are you going to interject energy into the practice?
   4. Don’t be afraid of routine, but don’t make it boring.
   5. Make your breaks productive.
   6. Practice pace
      1. Coaching on the run
      2. Plays on air
      3. Name your drills
   7. How much contact do you need?
3. Effective scrimmaging.

2nd Key – Team Building

1. Compete, compete, compete.
2. Bond, bond, bond.
   1. Buddy System
   2. Small Groups
   3. Character Program
   4. Take responsibility for your backup.
   5. Team Cookout/Event
   6. Coaches’ Testimonies/Stories
   7. Bad Day Drill
   8. Practice on time
   9. Dance off
   10. Season Theme
3. We over me.
   1. Our Four Team Goals
   2. Importance of offensive line
      1. Special fraternity
      2. T-shirts

3rd Key – Player Retention

1. This is a family experience.
2. Post-season party
3. End of Year Letter
4. Get signups done as soon after the season as possible.
5. Off-season emails to the parents.
6. Training the Parents.

In partnership with Dumcoach.com we are hosting a series of Youth Football Clinics with a panel of Coaches we believe are some of the best in the country. Topics: Installing Tempo at all Levels - Mike Rowe, Simple Passing Concepts - Bruce Eien, Turnovers by Design - Dave Potter, Managing the Parents - Clint Schumacher, Formational Designation - Tito Correa, Non-Contact Drills for the Offseason - Keith Magee.

This is a two Part series outlining Coaching Points I wished I had known the first year running the Unbalanced Single Wing Offense with my youth team.

Topics Covered (Part #1):
● First Year Tips
● The Base and suggested tweaks
● Play Calling
● G.O.D. Blocking, Foot to Foot Splits, and How We Teach It
● Running Back Stance, Alignment, and Importance of Fakes and Teaching them
● Additional Formations and Plays
● Selling the Single Wing to your Coaches

Topics Covered (Part #2 ):

● Off Tackle Adjustments Considerations for Weight Restricted Leagues.
● Additional way to run ISO.
● Additional Quick Side Plays:
● Why No Huddle and No Huddle Tweaks.
● Evaluation Drills and Suggestions for scoring.
● Sample Practice Plan Format
● Miscellaneous

Topics Covered:

1. Know Your Scheme
2. Teach Your Scheme
3. Troubleshoot Your Scheme
4. Adjust Your Scheme
5. If Your Play Doesn’t Work…

If you look back over the past 50 years of college and high school football, you will find that more teams have won more games with an “option" offense than any other kind… more than the WingT, Ace Back, Single Wing, West Coast, or the Air Raid offense. Not that these aren't fine valid offenses, but they just don't have the numbers that the option teams do. And of the various types of option offenses (Veer, Split Back, Wishbone, Wing-bone, Pistol, etc.)… the version with the most victories is the “wishbone" offense from the late 60's to the mid 80's! Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Auburn, Ohio State, Nebraska, Arkansas, Air Force, and so many more great programs… the list of great championship 'Bone teams is pretty impressive, and long running. While not as flashy as the “air raid", the results are there for all to see. You can't argue with success!

Topics Covered:
1. Why the Wishbone is the Perfect Youth offense
2. Blocking schemes
3. Tags and Cadence
4. Review of Playbook

As a bonus, we are including a copy of Coach Magee's Wishbone for Youth Playbook.

The Pin and Pull RPO is a must have play if you run the Spread Offense. The Pin and Pull RPO is responsible for setting multiple records in the running and passing game at Crestwood High School.

RPOs are becoming popular in the game of football. So why shouldn’t you get in on the action? The Pin and Pull RPO is responsible for helping the Crestwood Black Knights increase their scoring from 11 points per game to 36 points per game in two years.

Doesn’t that sound like something you want your offense to be able to do?

Then get this eBook and learn how to put defenders in conflict, get your players excited about football, and shatter your school’s offensive records.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What’s This eBook About?

Chapter 1: Ask yourself these questions.

Chapter 2: What defensive front dominates your region/conference?

Chapter 3: Primer on Defensive Fronts

Chapter 4: Blocking Pin and Pull Against an Even Front

Chapter 5: Blocking Pin and Pull Against an Odd Front

Chapter 6: Running Back Rules

Chapter 7: Wide Receiver Routes

Chapter 8: Quarterback Reads

Chapter 9: Drilling the Play

Chapter 10: Window Dressing the Play

Chapter 11: That’s it

Topics Covered:

Clinic #1 - Unleash the Beast

1. What the Beast is
2. How to use it
3. Shifts
4. The plays we use
5. Variations/Formations, Unbalanced two Tight End Line, YALE
6. Three Sniffer Backs/Blocking Backs
7. A JUMBO Package-Goal line-Short Yardage
8. With shifts and variations-is it a complete package?

Clinic # 2 - The Beast Package

1. Beast Blast, Counters, and Passing
2. Playcalling
3. Practice philosophies

Topics Covered:

1. Why we have flipped.
2. Plays we run when flipping.
3. How we call the plays with No Huddle.
4. Flipped Formations
5. How we organize the flip.

80+ Page Playbook Covering:

1. Background and Introduction
2. Formations
3. Receiver Placement
4. Route Color Codes
5. Cadence
6. Routes
7. Play Calling
8. Plays
     a. Base
     b. Bunch
     c. Diamond
     d. Spread
     e. Quads
9. Defenses
10. Plays vs. Cover 2 Man
11. Plays vs. Cover 2 Zone
12. Plays vs. Cover 3 Zone
13. Close

Also included is a 7-on-7 quick reference playsheet to help get your team into the best play verses specific defensive coverages.

Creating a One Word Play Concept is a course that will show coaches how to play faster and score more points. By taking your best formation and plays you will be able to structure your offense, so defenses won't know how to defend you.

The hottest topic in football is how to use motions and shifts in your spread no huddle offense. Find out how we use these to strategies to break tendencies in our Spartan Spread Offense. In this course, you will learn how to:
Signal in motions
Signal in shifts
Different types of motions
Various types of shifts Included in this course are video examples and a Powerpoint presentation. Coach Rowe breaks it down so coaches of all levels can install this system.  

Topics Covered:

1. Base Pass Plays for all Offenses
2. Easy Install
3. Simple QB Reads
4. Concepts Pass Game
5. Q&A

On many youth football teams the Offensive Line is one of the most neglected units and least popular positions to play.  In this course bundle Coaches Clint Schumacher and Michael O'Gorman cover a number of topics that make playing O-Line fun while improving your players aggression and ability to block.  

Coach Schumacher (Offensive Line Fundamentals for 4th to the 8th Grade)

- Mind-set – the I Ams

- Accountability

- Match Your Offensive Philosophy

- Flexibility

- Footwork

- Stance (2 point, 3 point, 4 point)

- Splits

- Drills for a Power Scheme

- Drills for a Zone Scheme

- Drills for the Passing Game

- Resources for Further Study

Coach O'Gorman (How to be the Coach Your O-Line Deserves)

- Creating an environment in which players want to get on the O-line rather than off.

- A blocking technique that allows smaller guys to move bigger guys.

- Drills that teach kids block, one on one, in space, and aggressively.

- Ways to incentivize O-line (legal) violence and aggression.

Coach O'Gorman (If that's Zone Blocking, how come it's so Nasty?)

- Our “philosophy” of combo blocking, and how it was introduced to, and taught to, the players, so that combos resulted in two violent and sustained one-on-one blocks.

- How the man one-on-one drills were adapted to teach zone footwork.

- The new scoring systems for the drills.

- The two-on-two combo drill that was added.

- How film was graded to give players even more incentive to stay on blocks.

- More on how to get blocks that are aggressive and nasty.

Topics Covered:

1. Jet Sweep Sweep Series
2. Belly/Down Series
3. Sprint-Out Series
4. Installation Plan
5. Q&A

Topics Covered:

1. Review the counter play, counter trap play, reverse, and reverse pass.
2. Using multiple backs in each play to maximize deception.
3. Tags and adjustments.

In this course Coach Slade Singleton breaks down the Air Raid Offense and how to keep defensive players in constant conflict.  Coach Singleton covers in detail Building and Calling the Offense, Formations, Pass Protection, Attack Zones, Pass Concepts, Screen Game, Run Game, RPOs, Motions, and Tags.

Topics Covered:

1. The power play concept
2. WB power (dual backs at edge/part blocking) 
3. QB power 
4. BB power (trap) 
5. WB power sweep 
6. QB power sweep 
7. Discussion on tags (XX, Sprint, Boot)

Topics Covered:

Coach Rob Rhodes, Coach Bruce Eien, Coach Nathan Keen discuss various Hacks and Tweaks they have made to the versions of the Single Wing Offense they run.

In this course Coach Singleton builds on his popular More with Four eClinic by discussing different ways he window dresses his QB Runs with Motions.  He details how he leverages QB Power, Truck, and Dart in the More with 4 System.  As a bonus, he discusses 3 RPOs he uses to complement these run schemes.

The Brookly Power I Offense has been developed over a period of many years. The main influences were from the Full House T, and a Basic I offense. The Offense has changed and adapted along the way to evolve to the form it is today. One of the bonuses of the Offense has always been the spacing and alignment. Since it works off arm’s length and steps it never has to be adjusted to fit the age of your players. It is truly a plug and play Offense.

While each play has its own unique blocking scheme, the general concept is to block down at the point of attack, and kick out with the Fullback. The course will cover the blocking schemes and variations; the main thing is to keep things simple and execute better than your opponent.

As a bonus, we are including a copy of Coach Cianflone's Brooklyn Power I Playbook.

In this course Coach Mike Rowe breaks down the Spread Offense covering Base Plays, Developing Strong QB Play, Offensive Line Play, utilizing the Fly Sweep, and Built-in Escapes for the Passing Game.  As a bonus, he has added must have spread drills covering Ball Security, Speed Option, Throwing Out Routes and the Bubble Screen, as well as a clinic covering "Making Great Defenders Obsolete with the Spread Running Game".

The 73 Bandit Defense is a blend of several defensive schemes, including Coach J. Reeds "Gap Air Mirror Defense" and the traditional 50-series defense that has been popular for decades at all levels. Modification have been made to take care of certain areas we think can be improved in each of the baseline defenses, and to better suit the aggressive style of play for youth league recreational and school level football. Topics Covered:
1. Why the Bandit was born.
2. Player profiles – what you should look for.
3. How to play against “that".

As a bonus, we are including a copy of Coach Magee's 73 Bandit Playbook.

Topics Covered:

1. Deploying Personnel
2. Defensive Alignment, Assignments & Keys
3. Defensive Tackle Play
4. Defensive End Play
5. Linebacker Play
6. Secondary Play
7. Run Fits:  Trap, Power, and Counter Sweep
8. Defending Wing-T, UBSW, and Double Wing
9. Installation

In this course Coach Singleton builds on his popular More with 4 eClinic by discussing how he installs and utilizes the Inside Zone within the More with 4 System. Included are Offensive Line Drills he uses to teach Zone Blocking.

Topics Covered:

1. Severe Angle Blocking and Track and Kick Out concepts and theory.
2. Basic stances and LEG concept.
3. Pulling, backside cut off, and hinge concepts.
4. Variations in blocking schemes (SEAL, KICK, WIDE, TANK, GRUNT).

Topics Covered:

1. Play action passing.
2. Blocking and Route design.
3. Practice philosophies.

Topics Covered:

1. “Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast” – Urban Meyer
2. “Confident players play fast and fast players win football games” – Joe Daniels
3. “Compete, compete, compete.” – Pete Carroll
4. “The closest I can come to the secret of success is this: a lot of little things done well.” – John Wooden
5. “You must fascinate them every day.” – Pete Carroll/Randy Jackson
6. “When you need their full attention, do it early in practice.” – Al Ainsworth
7. “Pressure is what you feel when you are not well-prepared.” –Tom Herman
8. “Spend less time in the strategy books and more time in how to talk to kids.” – James Leath
9. “Athletes are not going to remember what you say, they are going to remember how you made them feel.” – Jen Starkey
10. “Only by knowing yourself can you become an effective leader.” – Vince Lombardi

Topics Covered:

1. History
2. Evolution
3. Philosophy
4. Position Breakdown
5. Scheme
6. Adjustment in Youth

Topics Covered:

1.  Under The Center (UTC):  quickstep, 3 step, power action, boot action techniques.
2.  Direct Snap (DS):  quick step, power action, boot action techniques.
3.  Receiver release techniques:
– Beating press coverage with the 1/2/3 step release method.
– Radical Release
4.  Receiver Break techniques:
– Square cut
– Speed cut
– Away cut
– Whip cut
5.  Receiver Stop techniques:
– Look
– Hook
– Curl
– Stop
– Comeback

Topics Covered:

1. 100% Check With Me play calling system.
2. Gets the football to all 6 eligible positions.
3. O-linemen are fully interchangeable.
4. Very easy to troubleshoot live during the games.
5. Great play-action passing game.
6. Attacks the Defense vertically so speed is not important.
7. Q&A

Topics Covered:

- Press Break Setup
- Key Coaching Points
- Attacking the Zone Press
- Attacking the Man Press
- Attacking the Press from the Sideline

Are you new to youth football coaching and don’t know where to start?  Do you have a year or two of experience coaching youth football, but understand you need to improve your coaching skills?  Are you a program coordinator looking for training to help your inexperienced coaches?  If the answer to any of these questions is yes, we feel our Youth Football Coach Training course may be for you.  This training course is a collection of 16 recorded clinics conducted by youth coaches covering a wide range of topics that will provide a solid foundation for Coaching Youth Football.  

Topics Covered:

• Culture – Scheme “Connection”
• Practice is Everything
• “Canoeing the Mountains”
• Transfer: What matters is what they do after we coach them
• Radar Blocking!
• Wedge

Topics Covered:

1. The Need for Speed…and Power…and Deception
2. Wild Bunch System Mechanics
3. The Fly Sweep Series and Deception
4. Bunch, Run & Shoot and Air Raid Passing and Deception
5. The Paradoxical Logic of Wild Bunch Football
6. Q&A

Topics Covered:

1. Half Slide Protection
2. Wall  Protection
3. Drop Protection

The Best Spread Run/RPO Concepts (Part 1 of a 2 eBook Series)

In this book, Coach Mike Rowe and Coach Slade Singleton look at the most talked-about run concepts and RPOs plays that have been ran out of the spread offense. See how two high school teams use top plays from FAU, UCF, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Clemson. They guarantee that you will find at least one concept that will help you win next season. This book covers over 50 play diagrams and 40 video concepts talked about in this first book.

The 521 Swarm Defense is Coach Cox’s variation of the 33 Stack Defense. Topics Covered:
1. Why the 521
2. 521 Philosophy and Personnel
3. 521 Fronts and Base
4. Calls and Stunts
5. Pass Coverage
6. Implementation
7. What is the 5225 Stack Swarm
8. 5225 Cover 1 Rules
9. 5225 Cover 1 adjustments vs. Different Offensive Sets
10. 5225 and 5225 'X' Calls vs. Different Sets
11. 5225 Tilt and Bear Calls vs. Different Sets
12. 5225 'Superman'
13. 5225 Cover 3 Adjustments and Calls

As a bonus, we are including a copy of Coach Cox's 180+ page manual covering all aspects of his version of the 33 Stack Defense.    

Topics Covered:

1. 10-1 Special
2. Crazy Blitz Package
3. 26 Fire
4. Automatics

Do you want to win more games? The margin for victory is getting smaller every season.  Why not go for TWO and win more games and put the pressure on your opponent? In this course, you will learn how to use 8 different formations that give defenses fits.  You will also learn the top plays that we run that have helped us score 80% of our Two-point conversions in the last 6 years.  What are you waiting for? In this package you will get:
-Article:Should You Go For Two?
-PowerPoint of the Formations and concepts used.
-Video of the concepts and explanation on how to execute.

In this course Coach Singleton will describe a simple offensive system he has used successfully at the High School level.  Using the system he refers to as "More with Four", he has simplified the learning curve for his players.  Many coaches have 100s of concepts they want to install and use, but often times players have a difficult time executing them at a fast pace.  

More with Four:

4 Runs 
4 Screens 
4 Quicks 
4 Dropbacks 

Coach Singleton's teams practice these simple concepts until they are good at them and then they add window dressing to make them look different to the Defense.  In this simple system, he is also able to add RPO Tags to the Run game, as well as Tag Pass routes to take advantage of defensive matchups.  

In this course Coach Mike Rowe breaks down the reads for a number of RPO concepts and how he incorporates them into his Spartan Spread System. Included with the course is Coach Rowe's RPOs in the Spread Offense eBook where he diagrams over 50 plays that will manipulate defensive players and put them in constant conflict.

Topics Covered:

1. Understanding the basics of the offense.
2. Using Edge Tags and Backfield Tags to gain an advantage in numbers, leverage, and lines of force.

Coach Nathan Keen will cover the Nuts and Bolts of his flavor of the Single Wing Offense that specializes in the Half Spin.  Among other things he goes into great detail outlining 4 different Half Spin Series from Multiple Formations.  He includes almost 15 minutes of video cutups of his teams running the material covered in the clinic.  

Topics Covered:

- Why the Pack-Line Defense for Youth Basketball?
- Basic Definitions/Rules of Thumb

- Areas of the Court:

Help Line
Pack Line
Low Post

- Base Rules
- Ball at the Point
- Close-out
- Dead Ball

- Defending Screens/Picks

Defending OOB Plays:
Baseline
Sideline

- Press:

Black
White
Red Call

- Miscellaneous

Topics Covered:

- Attacking an Even-Fronted Zone
- Attacking Man-to-Man
- Attacking Odd-Fronted Zone

- Out of Bounds Plays:

Baseline vs. Zone
Baseline vs. Man
Sideline vs. Zone
Sideline vs. Man

Topics Covered:

1. Split 4-4 Overview
2. Inverted Cover 2

• Alignment
• Keys
• Responsibilities
• Coaching Points

3. Formation adjustments and checks
4. 2 Back Run fits
5. Pattern Reads
6. Implementing inverted cover 2 in your defense

In this eBook Coach Mike Rowe and Coach Slade Singleton diagram 13 of the most popular RPO concepts that have been used the last three football seasons at the high school, college, and NFL level. They also diagram each concept versus different defenses and how subtle changes will be needed to keep having sustained success on the offensive side of the ball. All the plays will vary from complex to very simple depending on the run or pass scheme you like best. They break down how to teach the offensive scheme to your players and play as fast as possible by giving concepts one-word play calls. Get ready to create some explosive plays!

Topics Covered:

- Coaching Philosophy
- It's not the X's and the O's
- Be the Great Communicator
- Organizing is Coaching
- Practice Execution
- Handling Game Day
- Scouting

Topics Covered:

1. Philosophy
2. What makes this defense different from a typical youth 5-3 defense?
3. Simple base rules and responsibilities
4. Simple adjustments they won’t see coming.
5. Q&A

This is a systematic approach on how the Rocori Spartans run their No-Huddle Offense that averages 85 plays a game. In this course you will learn how to incorporate different types of tempo into your offense. From there, the course dives into practice drills and game film to help you become a faster play caller.

In the second part of the course you will learn how we teach our one receiver route reading concepts and tie them to our RPOs. In the last part we will look at backer read RPOs, and how to teach and run them effectively with tempo. As a bonus you will also receive a copy of my FNF article that talks about Quarterback Counter Tre and RPO tags to install.

In this course you will learn 8 quarterback runs and how the Rocori Spartans add Run, Pass, Options (RPOs) to them. You will not only become more efficient in the red zone, you will learn to give defenses fits. In this course, you will also see how the Spartans and top colleges run these concepts against various defenses and learn how each play is blocked. Also included are diagrams, explanations, and video clips of each concept being run.

The Run Pass Option (RPO) is the biggest thing in football today. Since installing RPOs into the Spartan Spread System in 2011, Coach Mike Rowe's Rocori Spartans have averaged 400 yards and scored 28 points per game. During this time, the Spartans have made 4 state football appearances (2011, 2014, 2015, and 2016) winning it all in 2011.  In this course we will review over 50 plays that will manipulate defensive players and put them in constant conflict.