An invaluable guide on how to coach the spread offense-arelatively simple attack to run, but a very complex oneto defend. This comprehensive book features chapters onthe zone drive, the trap option, the speed option, theplay-action pass, the sprint-out pass, and special plays.

A collection of articles previously published in the AFCA's proceedings from its annual meetings and its annual summer manual.

Technical guide and playbook for the spread bone offense in football.

For the last twenty-five years, the most dominant offensive strategy in college football has been the spread offense, which relies on empty backfields, lots of receivers and passing, and no huddles between plays. Where the spread offense started, why it took so long to take hold, and the evolution of its many variations are the much-debated mysteries that Bart Wright sets about solving in this book. Football Revolution recovers a key, overlooked, part of the story. The book reveals how Jack Neumeier, a high school football coach in California in the 1970s, built an offensive strategy around a young player named John Elway, whose father was a coach at nearby California State University, Northridge. One of the elder Elway’s assistant coaches, Dennis Erickson, then borrowed Neumeier’s innovations and built on them, bringing what we now know as the spread offense onto the national stage at the University of Miami in the 1980s. With Erickson’s career as a lens, this book shows how the inspiration of a high school coach became the dominant offense in college football, prepping a whole generation of quarterbacks for the NFL and forever changing the way the game is played.

"I can't imagine that there has ever been a better book on offensive line play. It is the ultimate teaching tool for any level of play--from the pro level to youth football. Great book!" --Tom Flores, five-time Super Bowl champion The most important unit on any football team, from Pop Warner to the pros, is the offensive line. In Playing the Offensive Line, former New York Giant and Super Bowl champion Karl Nelson and veteran coach Bob O'Connor team up to offer winning strategies to players and coaches of all levels. In this illustrated guide, the authors show how to: Use proper stance Block effectively in running, passing, kicking, and goal line situations Execute a clean snap from center to quarterback

The definitive resource for coaching the spread option offense. In a straightforward, easy to understand style, coach Granger explains the spread option scheme, blueprint, audibles, (0-1-2 rule), blocks and scheme, option and power series, play-action pass, passing series, screens, screens and draws, 80 and 90 series, special plays practices and organization, strategy and talent and much more! Makes use of over 350 illustrations to further explain how to implement this curcial offense.