Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
This manual provides you with the full offensive line, receiver, and quarterback mechanics for installing each offensive play presented. Coach Campbell has left no stone unturned for implementing today’s Pistol Offense into your program.
Dear Coach Campbell and any other coaches out there, Hi, my name is Dustin and I am a 19 year old freshman at U.T. Austin majoring in communications at the moment. I e-mailed you but I donâ??t know if you got it. Anyway, Iâ??ve been seriously considering a football coaching career and Iâ??m trying to get advice from various coaches. Iâ??ve played football for much of my life and I started at strong safety on the varsity my junior and senior years. I was a captain my senior year and being somewhat intelligent I was given some freedom in the on-field running of a very complicated defense. Over the years Iâ??ve worked with some younger kids in sports from ages 8-12 and very much enjoyed it. Well, as Iâ??ve said Iâ??m giving some serious thought to changing majors and pursuing coaching and would hope to some day be a head coach or a coordinator of some sort. However, I have a problem. Iâ??ve noticed that a lot of coaches today have played at a collegiate level and I was curious as to what your opinion was about that. Would you rather hire a coach that played at a division 2 or 3 school (Iâ??m still in great shape and I think I could play at one) and had a lesser academically standardized degree, or someone who didnâ??t play in college but is very ambitious and has a degree from somewhere a little more academically sound such as U.T. Austin? Thanks for your time.
"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
I've been coaching at the Varsity level for 17 years. I didn't play a down of college football. Playing college football is something you should do if you still have the fever, but if you don't I wouldn't worry about it. Where your degree is from is of little consequence in the education field. Your teaching field (s) are what is really important. Be certified in as many things as you can or get math or science. If you go social studies, you can't really go wrong if you get your composite certification. Many coaches are SS teachers so when they leave, that is the field that is open.
If you think you want to coach, I'd really recommend it. I can't see myself doing anything else. I was about 12 hours away from an engineering degree and considered medical school, but I went this route teaching math and coaching and never looked back.
I am with northsatng on this one. There is nothing better in the world than caching. I was one semester away from completing Law School and decided that coaching is were my heart really was. So now I teach Government and Wellness and coach football. I never played a down of college football either. Heck, I barely saw the field in high school, but I listened and I learned and I made connections. I worked and I worked and I worked, till I got the chance to show what I could do. So the answer is, I don't care if your degree came from Harvard or Portugal State, as long as the candidate demonstrated a good attitude and an outstanding work ethic.
I never played a down of college football either. Although I wanted to but didnt have the height for D1 and I didnt really like the HC at the school I ended up going to, I have coached in 2 very successful programs. If you love the game and are willing to learn and learn and learn and then apply what you learn with enthusiasm there will be a spot for you on almost anyone's staff.
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender" - V. Lombardi
Post by Coach Campbell on Feb 3, 2003 16:57:25 GMT
Some of the best coaches I have ever worked with came from smaller programs and one reason I liked working with them so much was the work ethic they brought with them because everything for the most part that came their way had to be accomplished through hard work, dedication and determination and thats not to say Division one players don't have the same qualities. When the game is over the score board has no idea if you played college football or not. Study the game go visit coaches share ideas like you are doing on this discussion board and read. Coach CAmpbell