Adjusting To Your Talent

At St. Bernard’s Catholic School our football program was able to win a North Coast Section Championship in the 2003 season. Our coaching staff was blessed to work with some gifted young men. As the head football coach, I feel that at this level of play a coach must design the entire team’s systems (Offense, Defense, Specialties) around the talents and abilities of the players he has to work with. I find it very unproductive to coach a student-athlete to play a certain style of football that simply does not suite him. Diagram 1. Diagram 2. Diagram 3. Diagram 4. Going into the 2003 season our coaching staff met and evaluated our strengths and weaknesses. We knew that our offensive line would be big, strong, and quick. We would be able to control the line of scrimmage. We had a couple of good running backs returning which made for a potential situation where we would have a run heavy