I was going through my books looking for something to read and saw some books that others might benefit from. These are books that have impacted my career as an OC. This list is not exhaustive, as there are many other books that really good. I hope you might find one or two of these helpful as you grow as a coach.
What is Open - Dub Maddox
What is Open is a great book by Dub Maddox. Dub's R4 system gives you a method of communicating your pass game. It gives you a systematic process and universal approach to your game planning and play calling in your pass game. This helps you to "accelerate" decision making on the field.
Adapt or Die - Dub Maddox
Dub's follow up to What is Open is Adapt or Die. This will give you essentially a field manual for your pass game, tying together your drops, releases and routes. This will help you drastically improve your pass game.
Inside the Pocket - Bobby PetrinoBobby Petrino is one of the top offensive minds in football, and Inside the Pocket is a comprehensive guide to the pass game and using the X's and O's on the field. This is like taking a college course in the pass game. Where Dub Maddox's books give you a way to communicate and accelerate decisions, Petrino's book walks you through a variety of pass concepts.
Go-Go Offense - Brennan Marion
Brennan Marion is now the OC at Colorado, and early in his career he wrote the Go-Go Offense. Whether you run the Go-Go Offense or not, this will give you some great ideas and concepts you can incorporate within your own system. Brennan is an outside the box thinker who is one of the great innovators of offensive football.
The Bunch Attack - Andrew Coverdale
This is a classic that has impacted thousands of coaches in football. The Bunch Attack by Andrew Coverdale will give you several ideas you can incorporate into your offensive system. This is a must have for your coaching library.
Rick Tricket is a great football coach and this is a must have for offensive line coaches and offensive coordinators. If you are new to line play, or you want to learn more about line play, this book is a must have to get a great understanding of the offensive line.
The Delaware Wing-T: An Order of Football - Tubby Raymond
This is a very difficult book to find, but I highly recommend finding a way to purchase it. Tubby Raymond wrote the bible on the Delaware Wing-T, which is run by teams across the country. Many coaches have taken parts of Tubby's offensive system and incorporated them into their own.
The Evolution of the Wing-T Offense - Ed Sadloch
Legendary New Jersey Coach Ed Sadloch just released his book on the evolution of the wing-T. Coach Sadloch is one of the most knowledgeable coaches in football, and I highly recommend his book.
Run And Shoot Football - Glenn "Tiger" Ellison
Early in my career I read the Tiger Ellison's book. This will give you an education on the pass game based in the Run and Shoot. I highly recommend this book to expand your knowledge of offensive football and the pass game!
Football Coach's Complete Offensive Playbook - Homer SmithThis is one of the first books I read when I started coaching football. The head coach I worked for, David Diaz, had this book on his bookshelf. Homer Smith takes you through the evolution of offensive football and how offenses adapted to defenses. I highly recommend every coach who wants to learn ball to read this book.
Some of My Own...
I built our detailed game planning process and documents from these principles. If you are looking for specific resource you can use to help you be more effective with your game planning and more explosive on offense, check out my offensive game planning packet at
https://sellfy.com/p/AndN/
It includes everything from a scouting report template, to practice plans, to a two-sided color call sheet, and more! Each of the nine documents are fully editable and customizable! Order today and start preparing for your first game right now! This helped us be able to be prepared to attack the defense and put more points on the board. It also helped us be much more efficient and targeted on the weekends when we were game planning.
When I was a defensive coordinator we adapted this to our defensive preparation!
Here is a link to the defensive game planning documents. It includes 12 fully editable and customizable documents.
https://sellfy.com/p/AY1u/ These are what we used to post 6 shutouts when I was a defensive coordinator. Defensive coordinators at all levels of football are using this.
And finally, I put together a special teams resource. This has everything you need, included drill tape, practice tape, and game footage. It includes teaching presentations and scouting forms just for special teams!
https://sellfy.com/p/tJwz/ This helped us to build dominating special teams!
I wanted these to be available at a very reasonable cost. These can help you to be more successful on the field and more efficient in the office!
A while back I got hooked up with CoachTube and put together three courses for offensive football coaches. I put together two courses on RPO's, and a course on Building An Elite System of Communication. All of these courses will help you to score more points!
https://coachtube.com/users/coachvint
All three of these courses are detailed, with everything you need to be more explosive and to score more points.
The course on communication gives you a detailed approach to your gameday communication. I give you a system and a process to improve the quality of conversations, leading to improved play calling on game day. This course has received outstanding reviews from coaches at all level of football. A coach with multiple state titles told me this course helped them to be much more efficient and explosive this season.
My two RPO courses take you through a systematic process of installing RPO's into your offensive system. RPO's put the defense in conflict, forcing them to defend all 53 yards of width and all 6 skill players every single play. I not only give you a system, but I teach you the methods to develop your own RPO concepts.
Books
I published a couple of iBooks that can help your program with X's and O's. The first is on Installing RPO's into any offense. Here is a link to the iBooks version:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1078061959. The ibooks version includes explanations, diagrams, and video clips on multiple RPO Concepts. It will give you a simple process for implementing them into your offense.
If you don't have an apple device, you can order the paperback version! It is available on Amazon!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1520447485I also wrote a book on Tempo. It will greatly help you build a multiple tempo system with simple communication that will allow your kids to play with confidence. It also had over an hour of video clips! You can order the ibooks version here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1075902270.
Order the Amazon Kindle version here:
New Book
Over the last several months, I have stepped out of my comfort zone and wrote a new book about faith and purpose. The book is available as a paperback on Amazon, and as an eBook for the Kindle App. The cool thing about the Kindle app is that you can read the book on any device. I invite you to read it, and discover the power you receive when you make a decision to walk with the Lord. Here is a link to the book: Finding Faith
Since publishing the book, I have received numerous texts, calls, and emails, from people who are going through similar trials and tribulations. They were feeling many of the same things I was feeling. The found comfort in the book. They also found they had a desire to change and to live better. They wanted more joy.
I would invite you to read the book and discover the possibilities that God has planned for your life.
