Today's guest is Colin Bruton, head football coach and offensive coordinator at Lakeland University.
In 2021, Lakeland had one of the top producing offenses in the country in NCAA Division III. Total offense they produced 523.4 yards per game (#4) and 45.1 points per game (#10).
Coach Bruton talks about making the transition from defensive coordinator to offensive coordinator as well as what makes their 10 personnel uptempo offense successful:
Shownotes:
-Start in coaching
-Evolution as a coach
-Start in coaching the back end of defense
-How he expects his young coaches to develop years 1-3
-Mentor - Mike Emendorfer - learning how relationship make a difference
-Kevin Daugherty
-Moving from DC to OC
-Promoting from within
-Controlling the game O vs D
-Leveraging knowledge develop on defense as the OC
-Things that give defenses trouble
-Speed option
-Make all skill players a threat
-Operating at the fastest tempo
-Toughest concepts to defend at tempo
-Psychological effect of how many series are played
-Playing complimentary football as a high tempo team
-Approach to play calling
-How speed option helps play calling in 10 personnel offense
-Key to successful speed option
-Winning Edge - get our guys healthy and happy to Saturday
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