The following playbook cut up is from 2005 in which soon to be West Virginia Head Coach Dana Holgorsen was Offensive Coordinator at Texas Tech under Mike Leach, before he would go on to become the Offensive Coordinator at Houston and later Oklahoma State. Over the past few years, we've seen passing offenses evolve, going from the normal Ace personnel (2 WR, 2 TE, 1 RB) to Empty sets (5 WR's, no  [ ... ]

A Look At the Y Stick Concept As more and more defenses become complex by dialing up fire zones and zone blitzes, offensive coordinators are teaching their pass catchers how to read coverages with option routes. If the defender goes this way, you got that way. If the defender goes that way, you go this way. Part of the teaching is sitting in zones, which are pretty common now with th [ ... ]

With today's offenses being so versatile and complex, it is important to pattern read in my opinion. Spot dropping does not always work, as I described before. Pattern reading is something that I've touched on before (and here and here and here) and the reason I like it is because it keeps eyes on the ball, allowing your players to make pla [ ... ]