how have you evolved?

Coach, I started in believing that the best way to run was to run out of the I Formation with 2-tight ends and a flanker. We would major in power football and minor in Coach Campbell's option-on-me series. I believed in this until about two years ago. Now, I have evolved into a Wing-T Option coach who believes that the best way to win is to make the blocking schemes as easy as possible on the offensive linemen and get defenses to play assignment fooball. Now, I teach within a sequence. I used to believe that the passing game was useless because, "If you can't win running the ball, it's not worth winning." Currently, I want to win anyway I can. Right now we are a Wing-T Option team.

Defensively, I started off as an odd front coach (3-4/5-2), then after I coached at a high school in New Jersey that ran a 4-4, I started to like the 4-4. Once I got back to Pennsylvania I decided to run the odd front when I got my first coordinator job. Currently, I run the odd front as my defense.

That's my response to the above listed question.

I think that this is a great topic because when you talk to coaches, the very rarely have stayed exactly in the system they began with. When I was first an offensive coordinator we were a wing t team. We had a decent amount of success with it until we got a job at another school (same staff). The new school had been down for years and we were running our base wing t. We were getting killed with 10 men in the box vs traditional wing t formations, etc. We tride to marry the option game and the combonation of thatwith the myriad of wing t schemes was too much for our kids to handle. So from then on, I decided that we would be a multiple formation team with limited blocking schemes (i/s, o/s zone as our base). Now we really coach our schemes up and it has worked and it has allowed us to be EXTREMELY multiple