Being Married to Winning on Offense - Rick Darlington, Head Coach, Enterprise High School (AL)

Today on Coach and Coordinator Podcast, your host Keith Grabowski welcomes Enterprise High School's head coach, Rick Darlington onto the show. Last season, Coach Darlington became the head coach at Enterprise after coaching at Apopka High School (FL) for 17 seasons over two stints.

During his time at Apopka, Coach Darlington registered a 167-47 mark record and three state titles thanks in part to his "Single-Wing" offense. Tune in and hear how Coach Darlington believes you can design and adapt your offense to give your team the best chance for continued success against the opposition.

Show Notes:

2:45 Being married to winning

7:22 Teaching and executing plays

11:02 Being good at many things

14:22 Designing your offense

16:11 Option plays but not an option team

21:50 Coordinating to win games

24:24 Keeping your best plays alive

34:31 Outflanking the defense

38:12 Implementing trick plays

41:34 Play chart during practice

41:59 Bootleg play efficiency

47:30 Executing run fakes

48:20 Run to win the game

52:09 Expensive schemes and cheap formations

55:40 Protecting your base plays

56:31 Weekly in-season routine

58:37 Closing

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