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Many young of first or second year football coaches make a big mistake with their teams trying to marry all offences which are like oil and water. These meaning well guys see something on television or get excited about what someone said on a football forum post and suddenly they fell in love with a piece of theatre. They see something on youtube of a high school team running x and they now have to x in their offensive. Then someone convinces them that they must play Y make you keep Linebackers "honest" and that they feel compelled to add. Then they go to a clinic and they drink the koolaid of high scoring College Coach and they feel like they must have the z play in their offensive.

Before that you know, they have an "offence" is not at all offensive, but just a combination of non-related plays with little in common. There is not what my friend Ted Seay designates as "obvious unity of intent" in the offence. When you have a bunch of welded together unrelated one-trick pony, there is no apparent intention unit and defences eat these type of "offences" live.

What makes the series based offences such as the single wing, wing T, Double Wing, Dead T, Flexbone or Offenses Veer so effective is each piece in a series began to resemble a game, but il can be many. They take advantages of what the Defense gives, them, put the defence in real conflict and they have a response for when a team is stop or insist on an aspect of the game series. These offences share a global philosophy and rules consistent blocking, patterns and techniques that allow players to have a fair chance to succeed.

Recently, I had a conversation with a head coach, who wanted to run the single wing and he marry with concepts of the median line in the first year. Note This coach had never run the single wing or the median line. I have a friend who is very successful with the single high school wing in the largest class in Florida. He is also a former Flexbone guy, which was very well with this offence as well. When I asked on the median line and single wing, he laughs. He felt all loved the median line, no there was no way he could get good at the median line and the single wing in the same season. He had simply not the time to practice.

If a high school in Florida coach who knows the median line and the single wing which also has spring Football and is a two-platoon team feels that it has not enough time to do both, is now a youth coach who has not run either and has much less practice time, with many children playing in both directions (less offensive practice time) and young children have the time? No, but any logic in the world probably will not stop this determined young coach and most likely there will fail. As many of the guys try and marry incompatible partners such as area of reading and a block to the bottom and kick out system. As the median line, Zone reading takes time, and the middle line, it is a completely different approach to blocking. Each is time-consuming to run consistently well. Of course, anyone can run a terrible room, that prove? What is important it what can you always run well.

We need look no further that the offence of the University of Nebraska over the past two years. They tried to marry with a power and zone running game and the Option of reading area in their style West Coast offensive existing. The experiment failed miserably, the offence noted in the percentile of 15-20 by most measures, while failing to score in every game important, while a top 10 Note: defence carries water. Needless to say, that the offensive coordinator Strip was let pass this year, a new Coordinator said his team would no longer "run a lot of drama, but an offense." Hmm, sounds familiar.

I guess is the coach of young people try so hard to mix oil and water with the single wing, and the median line to have the same result.It will be very average or poor with each and I expect his team to a season where they mark very often. Like many, it will be just chalk it up to the talent poor, when the real reason was arrogance in the decision-making process. Do not mix parts and offences incompatible if they do not match your existing of philosophy, blocking schemes and blocking techniques, it is a recipe for a disaster season. If there is no apparent intention unit in which you are bolting on, seriously consider dumping of the exhibit. One of the goals of young coachng football is to put children in a position to score points as far as possible, not to see who is the smartest person in the room.

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