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.
Our local high school is running the wing-t system, and we've committed to supporting them in that. However, we are getting a lot of resistance in our organization for doing this because our HS hasn't been to the playoffs in 9 years. There is not a lot of support in our area for running the wing-t, so getting our organization in line with the HS has been a huge challenge. Most people in our area are wanting us to run out of a pro set. We have a team in our organization that absolutely refuses to run anything but a pro set (split backs, 2 wr), and they've went 24-3 over the last three years, and all three years they went to the playoffs, with 2 of those years in the championship game. The last two years with our wing-t we went 7-11 with one playoff appearance. So as you can see, we face a lot of difficulties trying to get our program in line with the HS program. I was wondering if anyone had any advice.
Coaching the youth levels is a very sensitive business at times, and this would appear to be one of those times. I have always felt that the youth need to be exposed, as they mature, and get closer to the time when they will be able to help the local HS win, to the HS philosophy. However, perhaps a compromise by continuing to utilize some wing T and your new pro set ( nothing involved, just slip in some of your new stuff as the opportunity arises) would placate all involved. Good luck.
Coach Easton
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
As a head high school coach and a one time youth football director, you would like to have the youth program run your system. It is not essential for the high school program that they do that. It is more important if the youth program can use the same numbering system, terminology, and names for positions. What offense or defense they run is not important. The important thing is that they are playing football. The schemes can never be as complex so don't worry about it. Just have the young players playing football and get them to want to play for you in the high school. The high school head coach should make himself available to the youth coaches and players, but to demand they run his offense can be counter productive in getting the youth program to support him.
I agree with Coach Easton and Coach Truscello 100%. I think the real value to the program comes from the use of like terminology and numbering systems and teaching fundamentals in similar ways. Familiarizing the kids with facets of the wing-t as Coach Easton suggested would be very beneficial to them as well, even if their team's offense isn't based on it. Some Wing-T coaches will undoubtedly argue that you can't just utilize the wing-t as just another formation, but in a youth situation I think you certainly can receive some benefit by doing so. If the coaches in your league are not comfortable teaching the wing-t, I would think it would be up to the high school staff to help them become competent in coaching it if they'd like to see it run in your league. As far as a pro vs. wing-t offense goes, I must say I fall on the side of "it's not the system, it's how well you coach it". Good luck with everything eaglecoach!
Dave Hartman CYFL Coach
"It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."