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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 279943" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>There's one other factor here that makes it harder to find coaches who want to run the O: it's hard to coach. First, you have to understand D tendencies and know, almost instantly, how to counter them. Second, you have to be able to adjust blocking schemes within the game to take advantage of opportunities (Coach's justly famous "half-time adjustments" are feared because he's so good at this.) Third, you have to find assistants who not only know what they are doing, but who know how to coach techniques that have often fallen out of use (cut blocking isn't easy to coach). Finally, you have to be patient enough to watch your players fumble around on the field as they learn their trade (i.e. 2015) and have a fan base and an AD who'll be willing to wait.</p><p></p><p>For a shotgun spread all you need is a QB who can run, throw, and make a double option read every now and then. If he's Cam Newton you go to the MNC. If not, he can probably learn enough to be respectable. The backs take handoffs and kinda block. The OL waddles into zone blocks and oinks at the DLs. Easy-peasey. And all this works without major mental effort; the main thing you need to be is a good recruiter. Get real good players one on one and hope for the best is the main goal, not designing the offense to produce. Then do your best on D - good recruiting again. It's no wonder that this is the <em>true</em> high school offense; it makes everything easy and doesn't require a tremendous effort to learn and coach. That's why it has replaced most Os at the secondary level.</p><p></p><p>I might add that everything I say about our O above also explains why complex pro set Os have gone into eclipse. They demand both really good players and coaches who know what they are doing. Hence Smart's problems so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 279943, member: 265"] There's one other factor here that makes it harder to find coaches who want to run the O: it's hard to coach. First, you have to understand D tendencies and know, almost instantly, how to counter them. Second, you have to be able to adjust blocking schemes within the game to take advantage of opportunities (Coach's justly famous "half-time adjustments" are feared because he's so good at this.) Third, you have to find assistants who not only know what they are doing, but who know how to coach techniques that have often fallen out of use (cut blocking isn't easy to coach). Finally, you have to be patient enough to watch your players fumble around on the field as they learn their trade (i.e. 2015) and have a fan base and an AD who'll be willing to wait. For a shotgun spread all you need is a QB who can run, throw, and make a double option read every now and then. If he's Cam Newton you go to the MNC. If not, he can probably learn enough to be respectable. The backs take handoffs and kinda block. The OL waddles into zone blocks and oinks at the DLs. Easy-peasey. And all this works without major mental effort; the main thing you need to be is a good recruiter. Get real good players one on one and hope for the best is the main goal, not designing the offense to produce. Then do your best on D - good recruiting again. It's no wonder that this is the [I]true[/I] high school offense; it makes everything easy and doesn't require a tremendous effort to learn and coach. That's why it has replaced most Os at the secondary level. I might add that everything I say about our O above also explains why complex pro set Os have gone into eclipse. They demand both really good players and coaches who know what they are doing. Hence Smart's problems so far. [/QUOTE]
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