How many plays become too much?

You need an outside play, off-tackle play, inside play, counter and play-action. For example: Buck Sweep, Gut or Slam, FB Trap and Waggle-This would be our 20 Series plays. For every series you can have those points of attack in the wing-t. Less is more and repetition is key. Most traditional wing-t coaches I talk to run, Buck series, Belly/Down Series and Power Series. Some have added Jet/Rocket Series and myself personally, I've added option Series(Midline and ISV). I run 20's(Buck Series), 80's(Belly/Down) and 40's(Options), 3 step and srint out pass. I've added jet and rocket motion/sweeps to the Buck and Belly series to give a different look, but not a ton of aditional teaching or learning. Good luck.

Thanks coach, so your thinking about 8 to 10 plays we should be running a game.

That is a great ideal, how was your visit with Coach Elrod?

Gary,
Coach Elrod was a terrific host and an even better person. He brought a living legend to our private clinic in Herschel Moore. Coach Moore and Coach Elrod set with us from 8am-4pm and discussed football the entire time. Coach Moore is 81 and did not miss a beat. He certainly did not act 81, he has forgotten more football than I could ever hope to learn. It was a dream come true for me. I must say that Coach Moore should HAVE NEVER BEEN LET GO FROM CUMBERLAND, because he is still light years ahead of all others out there teaching, coaching and implementing the wing t. His philosophy is to continually adapt and make each part the offense better. I will FOREVER REMEMBER that day where I got to talk to a living legend about the greatest game on this earth. THANK YOU to COACH ELROD AND COACH MOORE.
Karjaw

Gary,
Contact me at JWright@pinebushschools.org
Karjaw

My base offense contains approx. thirty plays. Is that too many? Of course it is. It is a big playbook because the beautiful thing about the Wing-T is that it allows you to do anything you want. Very often the varsity might be a belly / bucksweep team while at the same time your JV runs Jet and Double Dive. Your 7th grade is really good at something else as is your 8th grade.

I have found that I usually hang my hat on around ten or twelve plays at the most on the Varsity level. Heck, if the defense is giving it up I will run the Belly twenty times a game.

In a perfect world I would limit the 7th grade to 4-6 plays and add 2-4 for the 8th grade. Then as they go through HS add a few plays or another series as they advance from sub-varsity to varsity.

Personally I would rather run a few plays very well than a bunch of plays poorly. I think it is more important to run the few plays out of a BUNCH of formations.