Happy May, Coaches! The end of the school year is right around the corner…hang in there! This month, I’d like to move on with my “3 Quick Drills” – this…
Defensive Fundamentals
I would like to share some defensive fundamental categories that we have established and practiced throughout spring and that carry us all through the summer. The beauty of these fundamentals…
5 Keys to Defending the Wing-T Offense With Your 4-3 Defense
Good Wing-T coaches are tough to beat. They know their offense, formation, and series. Put guys in conflict. As a defensive coordinator, you start in a the hole to…
The Wise Old Coach On the Mountain
A few years ago I was looking through old UK football programs and found a picture of then-Virginia Tech Head Coach Jimmy Sharpe. Coach Sharpe was in Bear Bryant’s first…
Creating Competition In Your Summer Program
As coaches, we always talk about how we want our guys to constantly compete. I am a firm believer that the best way to do this at the high school…
12/13 Triple (Linebacker Call)
LB Call: We use this when we want to block the “regular” pitch key defender in order to give the defense something more to think about; instead of reading the…
Pairing Zone Read and Power Read to Attack Across the Defensive Front
The read game allows the offense to attack the defense where they become weakest based on post snap keys. The power read allows for a gap scheme read concept that…
Ideas to Test in Spring Practice
Spring practice is a time for coaches to develop their players in every way without the pressure of real games. Most importantly, the fundamentals (blocking and tackling) of the game…
The 6-Step Program To Becoming A Successful Defensive Lineman: S.O.P.
For this report I decided to write about how I teach defensive linemen to be technicians and to be fundamentally sound, so they can become the best players that they…
3 Quick Drills for LBs – Pass Rush
As I move forward with these blog postings, I’d like to focus on three “quick” drills you can use to get work on a specific part of the game. This…