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Title: Developing an Offensive Game Plan (The Art & Science of Coaching Series) by Brian Billick, Joe Theismann ISBN: 1-58518-407-1 Publisher: Coaches Choice Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not a very helpful book, in realty.
Comment: As a successful offensive coordinator in college football, I spend about two weekends in the summer coming up with plays for the following year. By taking the basic plan of a few simple setups, I have collected a series of plays that make my playbook bigger than the Houston phone book. So, the first assertion of this book, that one needs to devote more time with play design, is false.
In Chapter 12: Adjusting To The Opponent's Gameplan, the authors suggest a number of things a coach can do to alter the gameplan during the game. This is also misleading - as a highly successful college coach, I script the first 150 plays of each game weeks in advance. Then, from the comfort of my air-conditioned booth, I am able to run the offense at leisure. There is no need to adjust playcalling ONE IOTA, if one schemes the offense correctly, as my record shows I have.
Furthermore, one need not look at the time left in the half or game to alter play calling. Stick with the plan! It doesn't matter if you have a solid runner and are on the 5 yard line - do not deviate from the plan of quick passes. Time, and experience, will show that a properly implemented plan will always save the day.
My final discord is with Chapter 22: Adjusting Your Plays To Your Talent. This is ridiculous. Again, a properly drawn-up scheme does not rely on talent, only on execution. So, it doesn't matter if you have some tall freak of a WR, or an All-American TE (or two). Stick with the plan! Those plays you drew up after a drinking binge following your visit to the Denver Broncos WILL WORK. So go for it! You too can be successful! Just look at my record!
Rating: 5
Summary: Advanced, but Utterly Essential
Comment: A word of warning: This is not the best place to start for beginning coaches looking to plan and organize an offense. A youth football coach just starting out should probably look to other sources of information, notably John T. Reed and other youth football coaching guide authors.
On the other hand, anyone coaching high school or higher levels MUST have this book. This is how to build an offense from the ground floor up, written by someone at the top of the game's very highest level.
Coach Billick shows you how to determine how much offense (i.e., how many plays and of what type) you will need to achieve offensive excellence during a football season. Then he "deconstructs" that season, taking it apart level by level until you can see how much offense you will need PER QUARTER.
Billick provides a masterly explanation of "situational" coaching. He shows how to take the plays you have determined are necessary, and practice them against the exact situations and defenses that you will actually need them for in games.
You end up with a "3rd and short" offense, a "coming-out zone" offense -- in short, with the entire contents of the "call sheet" you will use during a game, all constructed in a precise and logical manner. This will save you from the greatest sin a coach can commit during your precious few hours of practice -- wasting time.
Again, this isn't for everyone, and probably not for most beginners, but it is utterly essential. Highest recommendation.
Rating: 4
Summary: very helpful
Comment: This book had a lot of good ideas which my staff tried to implement last season. Worth reading.
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Title: Footballs Quick Passing Game: More Advanced Routes (The Art & Science of Coaching Series) by Andrew Coverdale, Dan Robinson ISBN: 1585181943 Publisher: Coaches Choice Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Football Coaching Bible by American Football Coaches Association ISBN: 0736044116 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Offensive Football Strategies by American Football Coaches Association ISBN: 0736001395 Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Coaching the Multiple West Coast Offense by Ron Jenkins ISBN: 1585187399 Publisher: Coaches Choice Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Bunch Attack: Using Compressed Formations in the Passing Game by Andrew Coverdale, Dan Robinson, Brian Billick ISBN: 1585181781 Publisher: Coaches Choice Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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