South Florida's Zone Blitz Package

We would like to a take this opportunity to share some of our thoughts and beliefs on our zone blitz package at The University of South Florida. We realize there are many different zone blitz philosophies, but our staff and players are very confident in what we do schematically. Through researching other successful programs and combining it with our experience as coaches, we developed a system that we feel confident we can execute on game day. We began our teaching process with our base defensive concepts. We then implemented the same system into our Nickel, Dime and Okie personnel groups. Our goal was to keep our system simple, fundamentally sound and to maintain consistent terminology and technique in all of our defensive packages. Zone blitzing does three fundamental things that our defense believes must be done in order to be successful. Number one, it forces you to be aggressive in