Procedures Used In Football Scouting At Selected High Schools

Scouting a football defense is vital to the preparation and coaching of offensive football players for a game. Coach Bill Renner outlines a simple and efficient 10-step process to follow when scouting a football defense. The information gathered will provide the coaches and players with a confidence they need to have to play their opponent. Coach Renner has prepared high school offensive game plans for 30 years. He finished his football coaching career with a span of 13 straight years, 142 games, without the offense he was coaching being shutout. Following this simple 10-step process will help a coach in obtaining the knowledge to call offensive plays and know how and why the defense is aligned versus their formation. Play calling becomes more efficient and easier because you are calling plays to attack a players technique in a defensive alignment you are certain of. If you want to be certain that you are scouting your opponents defense the right way, getting the right information to help your offense, this book, How to Scout the Defense of Your High School Football Opponent, will give you that plan.

"Considered the bible of scouting techniques" according to the Los Angeles Times, Football Scouting Methods explains the basic scouting strategies and insights of author Steve Belichick. He was widely viewed as the ablest football scout of his time and coached at the U.S. Naval Academy for 33 years; his son is New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a three-time Super Bowl winner. When Steve Belichick died in November 2005, the New York Times headline cited him as "Coach Who Wrote the Book on Scouting," and quoted Houston Texans General Manager Charley Casserly calling Football Scouting Methods "the best book on scouting he had ever read." Joe Bellino, Navy's Heisman Trophy winner in 1960, told the Times that Steve Belichick "was a genius. On Monday nights, he would give us his scouting reports, and even though we were playing powerhouses, I always felt we were prepared because he found a way for us to win." In recent years Football Scouting Methods has been one of the top ten most sought out-of-print books; used copies have been quite scarce. This reissue edition makes the original 1962 text available once again in exact facsimile. The book covers how to scout opponents, recognize defenses, analyze offenses, discover "tip-offs" that reveal the opponent's plays, compose a useful report, self-scout, and conduct postgame analysis. "Steve Belichick taught many younger men how to scout and how to watch film and how to prepare their teams for the next week's game," David Halberstam noted in the Washington Post, and his best student was his own son Bill Belichick, "one of whose greatest skills as a coach to this day remains his ability to analyze other teams, figuring out both their strengths and their vulnerabilities, and shrewdly deciding how to take away from them that which they most want to do." When CBS asked Bill Belichick to name his favorite book, he replied "Well, I've got to go with my dad's. Football Scouting Methods. I'd have to go with that."

Originally published: Danville, Ill.: School-Aid Co., [1953]

Coach Renner has coached high school football for 30 years, 319 games to be exact. He has made an offensive scouting report for all 319 games. He was a head coach for 23 years at four different high schools in two different states, Virginia and North Carolina. His 10-step offense scouting process will get you the information you need to know about your opponent's offensive tendencies. It is not designed to predict what your opponent will do on down and distances. It is designed for you and your players to recognize formation and running back set keys so you can know what play your opponent can or will run from that formation or running back set. That is the key to playing effective defense regardless of the talent you have. Coach Renner provides you with his naming and labeling terminology for 27 tight end formations, 12 no tight end formations and 10 running back sets. It is a complete list that you need to name and be prepared to play against. He gives you a diagram for each step in his scouting process so you know exactly what that step should look like. When you're finished you will have an idea of what a simple comprehensive offensive scouting report will look like. If you want to insure your players are prepared for your opponent's offense Coach Renner's simple but comprehensive plan will help you.