Obsessed With Offense

By Darrin Sheffer This past off-season was a bit of a roller coaster for me.  Not only did I lead my schools freshman team to a winless season (see:  https://obsessedwithoffense.blogspot.com/2017/07/0-8-how-losing-season-made-me-better.html )  but the HC of our schools varsity squad resigned from his position and moved to a different school.  Our administration took a LONG time to hire a new coach.  There was a point during this time where a good friend of mine was applying for the position, and he tasked me with coming up with new offensive and defensive system for our school.  Long story short he did not get hired, so all of my research was wasted for this year.   I did keep all of my research though (just in case I ever do get to run an offense or defense in the future) and I recently found an article that I read over and over again (see link below).  I had made the decision that if I were in charge of our school's offense, I would run the Wing-T.  Why? 90% of the s

By Darrin Sheffer As a coach/teacher/educator of young people, have you ever had one defining moment: something a student/player said, a comment from a parent, something of that nature that completely changed your feelings about what you do as a coach?  I want to share my moment with you.  If you have read my previous posts about my first season as a HC you will know that we did not have a lot of success.  The season was filled with so much frustration that I had difficulty seeing any good coming out of it.  I felt depressed and powerless, which lead me to feeling that maybe coaching football was just not for me.  But then, probably at the perfect moment my views changed dramatically.  What changed?  I received a hand written letter from one of my players. http://www.crystalgraphics.com/powerpictures/images.photos.asp?ss=thank+you Now before I tell you what the note said I want to give you some background about the kid who wrote it.  I coached all freshmen, and as fres