Coaching High School Special Teams

Coaching High School Special Teams is a book that details each phase of special teams, punt, punt return, kickoff, kickoff return, extra point/field goal and extra point/field goal defense. Each phase has specific coaching details on the type of players to select for that special team with detailed techniques for coaching each player on that team. Diagrams and illustrations denote alignments and assignments and can be used to teach players with. Goals and objectives for each special team are discussed and presented. A special teams organizational chart with coaches responsibilities, pre-season installation and a practice plan organizing the special teams part of practice are part of this comprehensive special teams system. Coach Bill Renner is a veteran high school coach of 28 years. He has been a head high school coach for 23 years at four high schools in Virginia and in North Carolina. His special teams have always been an integral and consistently outstanding part of his program. His special teams have won games via last second field goals and a punt return for a touchdown with 13 seconds left. He has produced a punt team that gave up .8 yards per opponent punt return in a season, had a string of 10 years with never having a kick or punt blocked and a kicker that had 119 touchbacks in two seasons. Coaching High School Special Teams shows you schemes that have been tried, tested and proven to help teams win. These schemes are easy to install and teach. And the coaching details of each special team from a successful veteran high school football coach will put you at an advantage over your opponent

"Complete Guide to Special Teams is the authoritative resource on the kicking game for coaches and players"--Page 4 of cover.

Coaching Football's Special Situations focuses exclusively on those plays and aspects of the game that are directed involved in winning big plays, scoring zones, penalties and turnovers, special teams, managing the clock, and other game components that frequently don't get enough attention in practice. Former NFL head coach Tom Flores calls this book one of the three or four football coaching books that every coach must have.

This book shows coaches of American football the plays, strategies, and drills they need to produce first-rate, special teams. This fully illustrated book reveals everything coaches need to know about kick-offs, kick returns, punts, punt returns, extra points, and gadget plays for every special teams situation.

You must prevent your football team from losing the football game on special teams. And, rarely can your football team win a football game on special teams. Winning field position is not winning a football game. Yet, football coaches spend much time in practice going over special teams substitutions, techniques, assignments, alignments, and intricate full field schemes. Those details detract from time spent improving the offense and defense. These are the areas that directly lead to winning a football game. In this book, Coach Bill Renner shows you how to manage your special teams to minimize substitutions and practice time but still maximize special teams performance. You will learn how Coach Renner evolved into this philosophy from the standard one of full special teams substitutions and different schemes and techniques. You will see how he uses the first team offense as the punt team and all offensive skill players on the kickoff return team. He details how to use the first team defense or the defense that is on the field at the time, as the punt return team, kickoff coverage team and extra point field goal rush team. He gives you specific scheme techniques to prevent an all-out rush versus your punt team and extra point field goal team. He shares with you how to avoid punt fakes, extra point field goal fakes and onside kicks that take a possession away from your offense without compromising the opportunity for your special teams to make a big play. Coach Renner uses diagrams, game photos and coaching technique bullet lists to impart his information. Wouldn't you rather spend five to seven minutes a practice on special teams without having to teach new techniques, schemes and depend on substitutions to get on the field at the right time? At the end of the game it is the offense that must drive the football down the field for a touchdown. Or, the defense that must make a stand to prevent an opponent touchdown. Through years of head coaching experience Coach Renner has learned how to minimize special teams substitutions and practice time while maximizing special teams performance so you will not lose a possession, get a substitution penalty or lose a game on a special teams play. That is what this book will give you thoughts on how to accomplish.

From offense to defense to special teams, blocking tackling, throwing, running and catching the ball, Coaching High School Football covers it all in this easy to understand manual that includes dozens of play-book diagrams.

On Coaching Football: A Resource and Guide for Coaches is intended for coaches and aspiring coaches at any competitive level of football. The book is actually a checklist that a coaching staff can use to develop a football program. The reader will be exposed to a systematic, comprehensive, and flexible approach to the three facets of the game: offense, defense and special teams. This book is an indispensable part of any coach's library because it describes the year-round commitment that is required to establish and maintain a quality, success-oriented football program in a competitive playing environment. The reader is counseled on subjects that range from the job interview, to game day management, to off-field and on-field pre-season activities.

Drawing on lessons he has learned as a youth football coach, John T. Reed gives readers pointers on how to create a winning team. Topics in this newly revised edition include practice organization; offensive, defensive, and special-teams systems; what to cover at the preseason parent meeting; keeping it simple; the Contrarian approach; and more.