The Spin Offense: The Weakside Attack

Six years ago, I was the offensive coordinator at St. Andrews Episcopal High School in Ridgeland, MS. I was at a point in my career where I wanted to design an offense that would not only be different but would also help a team with average talent to compete against much stronger and more talented teams. With 23 years of coaching experience under my belt, I had run just about every kind of offense you could imagine. It was at that time I created the \'Spin Offense.\' By combining some ideas from the \'old school\' single wing offense I had been running with a \'new age\' spread offensive look, I had just what I was looking for with the Spin. Spreading the field with this formation is what makes this offense so unique and somewhat different from the tight unbalanced formations of the single wing era. After reading an article I had written on my new offense, Coach Dale Weiner from