UNLV Football Practice / Clinic

Coach,

I'm also looking at installing elements of this offense. I spoke with one of the coaches at UNLV over the phone about a week ago in hopes of snagging some Utah game film but was told that might be tough to do. He mentioned the clinic, but unfortunately I'm on the east coast and it's a bit tough to get out west.

Any info would be great...here is my email

jfl1@duke.edu

Thanks

Coach would love to get any information you could pass along. We will be running this offense next year and would love to get a look at what you got. Thanks Tim Dycus

email coachdycus@aol.com

zoneread;

Just spread the gospel according to Sanford right here for all of us to partake in its wisdom and elegence


Keith

Zoneread,

shoot me an email at jetsweep78@hotmail.com I would like to work something out for your sanford info.

JD

Tiger cat here are a few of the notes and points that I took down from UNLV on the shovel pass. They run two different shovel plays, one being called regular shovel and another being called T-shovel. The differance being who the shovel guy is:

6/7 Shovel
Shovel man would be the slot wr coming down the los. It may be the slot motioning across the formation and then back or the slot away from the playside running the shovel. Shovel runner should bubble back off the los to 3 yds to get into shovel phase, follow guards outside hip and look to round the double team by the pst and psg, The shovel runner should get down hill, not flat, should recieve shovel between a gap and b gap, looking to recieve shovel about 1 yard deep from los

Qb is always flat and pushing the sideline, toes at 5 yards deep, Read de, if he stretches with you continue to widen and shovel, if he squeezes run the speed option, If he wants to slow play go ahead and run speed option


T-Shovel
T-shovel is where the tailback is going to be the shovel man. Almost takes what looks like a counter step but is simply a jab with outside foot then gets into shovel phase, gets down hill not flat, since this is a different shovel path for the tailback out of the backfield it helps to get that jab step in there and to get into the correct phase, unlike the slot man having to bubble back to 3 yards the rb is automatically there and just gets down hill, looking for the hip of the guard and hugging that double team, shoulders should be up field and under control, look at recieving the shovel about 1 yard deep from the los and about 4 yards from the qb, Qb's toes are still at 5 yds and he is going FLAT to the sideline looking to stretch the de


Coach this what I got from his clinic and I hoped it helped you on what you had questions with, fill free to ask some more if needed. Thanks

Zonereadfootball,

I've read through most of the disscussions on this particular forum...would like to have your e-mail address to discuss further.
thanks in advance,

Coach,

Any notes you could send from the UNLV clinic would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

kingpin301227@msn.com

If you have any questions in regards to any of the Utah/Unlv offensive plays go ahead and just post them up on the board. You will get some great answers from a variety of good coaches. I did attend the UNLV practice and clinic but it might be easier to share the wealth on the board than to email everyone. I would be more than happy to help answer any questions. Ex: triple option, shovel, speed, oscar, read pitch, te blocking, goaline package etc. We are in the process of installing this offense full time this year so we have come up with our own terminoly and verbage etc. It is a tough offense to organize because of all the formations and motions that we like to use. Let me know if anyone elso is running this full time. Would like to talk and match some stuff up if possible.

zonereadfootball@yahoo.com

Coachn, the play that I was talking about above is a counter shovel that we came up with after watching the way Utah ran there regular shovel. The one negative thing about the regular shovel is that there is no misdirection or counter look to get the d to freeze. They are simply trying to stretch out the d and run underneath. Well by faking the inside zone to the 3 hole and running the shovel to the 4 hole you have created a counter look. Basically is 24 gt counter. With the fake hopefully the lb will flow with it and we log them off with the counter blocking. Most high school kids arent reading pulling lineman in my opinion.

Now coach when you are refering to the triple are you talking about the shovel or the zone read option play. By what Sanford calls the triple option he is running the inside zone fake, qb keep or qb option. Thats what they call the triple. Some people are calling the shovel the triple option which was really confusing to our staff for awhile. So we are trying to stick with somewhat the same terminology as them. In response to your question about running the plays vs a 3-3 look, honestly I didnt pay a whole lot of attention on the way he was schemeing against that. Where I coach at we will never see a 3-3 the whole year. Its just not ran very much at all here. If you want a good look at the way they blocked that d get ahold of the Utah vs. BYU game from 04. BYU ran that against them and was somewhat successfull I believe.

As far as the qb counters from the package I was really surprised to see that he did not run any counter at all. Or if he did I totally missed them. They did run what would be the closet thing to a counter with the qb and they called it Q wrap. The didnt run it a whole lot but when they did they were pretty successfull with it. Basically its the exact same play as what people also call dart or zone t. Its where the backside tackle pulls and leads up through for the qb after he fakes to the rb.

Get ahold of Tog! I believe he is the master at this scheme. I never heard about it until talking to him. I think its a good scheme and we are going to install it this year.

wondering what it would take to get any clinic notes from coach sanford. thanks alot. my email is kaidbote@yahoo.com

coach, i am very interested in this offense, please send me anything you can.
thanks bc