One Team – Two Offenses

By Jeff Hancock • Offensive Coordinator • Siena Heights Universityand Jason Mensing • Head Coach, Whitehall High School (MI)Two years ago the Board of Trustees voted to start football at Siena Heights University and we were fortunate enough to be a part of the very first staff. Among the overwhelming number of things that go into starting a new program was this question because of our limited senior leadership – how were we going to recruit enough players to field a team when we have made the decision to focus primarily on high school seniors that were captains? Before we can explain how we did this, we first need to explain why we decided on running two offenses.Why Run Two OffensesWe decided that we needed to recruit and sign at least 100 student-athletes to have productive practices. To do this we needed to think “outside of the box”. This meant discussing the possibility