Option Football - Texas High School Football Chat

The option has been a part of the game of football for decades.  Many people still employ the triple option that Emory Bellard installed at the University of Texas in the late 1960s.  As the triple option has evolved from the wishbone backfield to the flexbone, offenses have also evolved to different ways of running the option.  As the spread offense evolved, teams began utilizing the zone read option on many of their plays.  Now offenses have evolved to RPOs, or Run-Pass Options which have brought back the threat of the triple option in the form of a give, keep, or pass option.  The option is a formidable offense to run on the field in all its forms.  As someone who grew up in the split-back veer, I just have to say good luck to all defensive coordinators out there!

Texas High School Football Chat - Spring Football

Spring is in the air and even though the school year may be winding down, football coaches across the US are starting to ramp up for our second season of practice.  This represents the opportunity to refresh the fundamentals of your program with your athletes so that they continue to improve as football players.  This also gives coaches another method of player evaluation in order to field their most competitive team possible in the fall.  

Practicing football without the pressure of preparing for an upcoming opponent, gives coaches time to truly teach the ins and outs of their position and the offense or defense to their athletes.  It also provides the athletes the opportunity to exhibit their gains in speed and strength from a productive off-season in order to earn playing time under the Friday Night Lights.  What a great way to end the school year!

I look forward to seeing how my offensive linemen have grown stronger and if they are ready to assume leadership roles on the team.  I have high expectations for them as I expect to see 18 days of dominance from them against whoever lines up across from them. Our field preparation for the 2015 season has begun!

Texas High School Football Chat #9 - "Reading Keys and Communication"

It's so important that we spend time each week explaining what and why we do things on the football field.  It's also important that we read and learn from others.  This is how we continually grow and learn.  If we continue to do the same thing every single time, we will continue to get the same results!  So I hope you pick something up each week that you are putting into use so that we are all getting better.  

Next week we will have our first guest host, SMU defensive coordinator Van Malone.  He will be leading the chat on the topic of "Making Moves in the Coaching Profession...The Right Way!"  I am very excited about this and thankful for his willingness to host.  Enjoy going through the slides!

Texas High School Football Chat #7 Passing Game

I really enjoyed talking ball with everyone last night and reading through what I missed today.  Lots of great information available for you to learn something from our conversation last night.  For those that missed out, we talked about the passing game on offense and defending it on defense.  Read through and if there's anything you'd like to add, feel free to comment or tweet it and tag it with #txhsfbchat.  

Texas High School Football Chat #6 In-Game Adjustments

Thank you for keeping #txhsfbchat going strong.  I know we are all in the midst of our second sports, attending clinics, and just working through our daily lives.  Yet you still take the time to participate and share your thoughts and ideas about high school football each Wednesday night at 8pm.  Thank you for being generous with your time and knowledge.

I am also creating a "Suggestion Box" for you to have an input on future topics.  I'm not running out of ideas, but I would enjoy seeing what you would like to see more of, less of, or focus on from week to week.  Thank you for all that you do.

#txhsfbchat 4....One month in

What an awesome month of talking football!  I absolutely love reading the tweets from everybody looking forward to Wednesdays and being able to talk football with coaches from all over the state and nation for a couple hours.  The chat has grown so much in this short amount of time.  The first week we started with about 15 people participating and a little over 70 responses, and last night we had almost 100 coaches participating and over 600 tweets!  Reading your answers to each question is so informative and inspiring, and I really enjoy seeing coaches take the conversation further and having their own discussion on the side.  This is what the chat is all about, furthering our knowledge and expanding our PLN.  Keep up the amazing work you're doing and keep telling more coaches to join us each Wednesday at 8pm CST.  See you next week!

January 21, 2015 Texas High School Football Coaches Chat

Our second night was phenomenal!  We had over 40 different coaches contribute and well over 400 responses!  What an amazing night!  Here is an archive of last night's chat.  There was so much good information from so many different people that I had a tough time choosing what would be included, so I pretty much kept all of it in...I hope y'all enjoy reading through the responses as much I have.