How to Get Your Gamebreakers the Ball

University of North Alabama coach Mark Hudspeth has been coaching football in the South for awhile. “I grew up just south of Starkville, Mississippi, watching Emory Bellard run the option. So, I have been an option guy from way back.” Hudspeth has learned that the basic premise behind Bellard’s famous Wishbone offense, developed and implemented under Darrell Royal at Texas, is ball distribution and having the defense decide where the ball goes. Since Hudspeth’s arrival in 2002, the UNA Lions have taken that concept and run with it. And passed from it. They have gone 40-10 over the past four seasons and have proved that other systems besides the Wishbone can – and do – make it possible to distribute the ball to the players that can make things happen. “First and foremost, we understand that it isn’t the X\'s and O\'s, it’s the Jimmy’s and Joe’s. No matter what