Read Option Offense For Youth Football

You coach a youth football team that is heavy on quickness and skill but light on ... actual pounds. It seems unlikely that you will be able to move the ball with a simple ground and pound approach to offense. What to do? In Read Option Offense for Youth Football, a veteran youth football coach takes you through an offensive approach that emphasizes spacing, speed, and reads over brute force. You will learn the philosophy behind this offense, formations, and plays, in addition to practice drill setups. By the time you are finished you will be ready to install an offense that chews up yardage and lights up the scoreboard.

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

You have agreed to coach a youth football team.You have enthusiasm, work ethic, charisma - and no experience. Where to start? In First-Time Coach: Youth Football, a veteran youth football coach takes you through the ins and outs of guiding a team. In these pages you will find guidance on preseason planning, preparing and running efficient practices, designing an offense and defense, managing your team on game day, and more. You will also find sample depth charts, call sheets, scouting forms, and practice planning templates. And if you need help coming up with an offense, we have included six runs and six passes to get you started. First-Time Coach: Youth Football will help you navigate this challenging, rewarding journey. Designed for coaches of players 8 to 12, First-Time Coach: Youth Football is intended for new coaches who enjoy football and may have helped out with intramural sports - soccer, tee ball, flag football, etc. - and whose organized football playing experience ended in high school if not earlier; and coaches who have served as an assistant football coach at a higher level like college or high school, but are unfamiliar with the idiosyncrasies of coaching little kids.

Coaching the Complete Triple Gun Offense (including the bonus DVD The Triple Gun Offense: Understanding the Basics), offers coaches at all competitive levels on both sides of the ball the perfect tools to better understand the key aspects of the triple gun offense. Topics include philosophy and organization, coaching the triple gun triple options, coaching the double options in the triple gun offense, the triple gun power attack, the triple gun draws and counter plays, installing the passing game, ripple gun screens and bubbles, the triple gun quick- passing game, the triple gun dropback-passing game, triple gun play-action passing, triple gun boot passes, and more. The companion 41-minute DVD, included with the book, brings Coach DeMeo's concepts to life. Contains nearly 200 diagrams and illustrations.

If you are a new coach, an existing coach with little football experience, or an experienced coach that has never tried the Spread Offense, this book contains all of the necessary information to understand and implement the Spread Offensive at all levels of youth football. From the basic philosophy of the Spread Offense, to the foundational running and passing plays, to the more advanced plays, this book covers it all and will be a useful guide for any youth football coach who wants to implement part or all of the Spread Offense into their scheme.

Coaching Youth Football, with its field-tested information and advice, will help you run your team with confidence. You’ll find methods and tips for communicating with players, minimizing risk and preventing injuries, providing basic first aid, planning and conducting practices, teaching techniques and tactics, coaching on game day, and keeping it all fun.

This book is the weapon for the best offense in the league. You want to coach, but only know the football of your youth - the Power I run it up the middle, three yards and a cloud of dust. Now you finally have the tools to implement a simple, but highly effective, and young player oriented, Hurry-Up-No-Huddle Spread Offense. Combining elements of the Wing-T with a shotgun no huddle scheme, this highly-effective system was developed specifically for the volunteer coach of a youth football team (ages 8 to 14). The "coach speak" has been removed and football concepts simplified in this easy to read book. You'll soon be putting up points and the kids will be having fun running plays that look similar to what higher-level football teams execute. Be ready to be an inspiration!