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.
Coach Campbell, I'm looking at a scenario where we will probably be able to two-platoon next year. The situation is I have myself and five assistants. We will have 40-45 varsity players and 50 JV. In the state I'm in those are two seperate teams and players can't play both in a given week. I'm trying to figure out how I can practice this. The biggest issue is that I will be both the OC and DC (it looks like) this season. So we can't just put three on each side of the ball. The other issue is several of the players on one-side will have to have a secondary position on the other on the varsity. I will also have a FB/LB that will play both ways as he is by far our best at both spots. JV will are going to try to be 100% platooned. Do you have any suggestions? I'm thinking doing individuals together (JV and Varsity) on Mon and Tue in primary positions with me staying on defense during that time. Wed do some trading of players in secondary roles for indy. The hard part comes when we start to think about group and team as we will need to keep the JV and varsity players apart. I have some rough ideas but I'd like to see what you think. Thanks
I hope you don't mind my interjecting, but I've got some experience with doing both. Don't know your situation, and you may have no other choice, but I've done the OC & DC thing and it's tough. While your defense is on the field, you can't communicate with your offensive guys like you'd want to and vice-versa. If you have good coaches in the box that will help some, but the problem is you always feel a little behind because you have to switch your focus a lot and don't ever really have time to reflect on what's been working on O and vice-versa.
If you have to give yourself all the aids you can - have folks track for you what has been working, have some people key on different segments of the other team (e.g., interior line, LBs, secondary, O-Line action, etc.) and make sure they watch their responsibilities and not the ball (it's harder than anybody thinks, your eyes just want to follow the dang ball). You'll be exhausted by the end of the game, and it is tough, but it can be done. However I do think the team has to have suffered to some degree because of the split responsibilities and concerns.
"The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his pursuit of excellence." - Vince Lombardi
WHEN CHIPS ARE DOWN, BEST PLAYERS ARE IN THE GAME. It is a mistake to be able to play blue chippers only one way. Say best kid you have can only go on offense. Say opponent has ball for 30 minutes in a 48 minute HS game. These are 30 minutes he cannot help you.