Football Books

This is a must read for those just starting or for those who have coached and need some new ideas. This book is very well laid out from start to finish. I read the entire 317 page book in less than two days (I could barely put it down to take a break). This book gets the reader to start being creative with their own established offense yet would allow the beginning coach to create an easy to implement (and understand) offensive package.

The offense can be run from any formation and discusses any changes to be made versus the numerous defenses out there. The blocking rules and line calls are simple (you do not need to use them all).

The passing game allows for maximum protection to shotgun with 5 receivers, and also includes the play-action game. The pass routes are diagramed versus cover 2, 3, and man out of the 4-3, 4-4, 5-2, and 5-3 defenses.

The author uses five base running plays, a quick passing game, and utilizes the draws and screens effectively.

The book also covers daily practice plans (with examples), and weekly game plans. The connection is made from day one of practice through to game one play number one.

A great book!

I really like this book. It is a compilation of presentations from 20 of the country's best college coaches of how to run their base offense. Each coach tells not only how to run the offense, but why. There is a significant amount of detail in the 10 pages or so each coach has from splits, to handling 3 and 5 technique defenders, to blocking assignments. Some even explain how much time they allot in practice to various techniques and what key concepts they need the players to learn. For example, on page 56, there is a paragraph that explains what the tight end does on his first and second steps.

The book is not as dry as it may sound. These are presentations that have been transcribed and most coaches start and/or end with a story or tell about something meaningful to them.

This is a great resource for the old school single winger to the modern spread teams. I nice base to start!!

If you know about Coach Leo Hand and his book "The Tee: Football Offense of the 21st Century" then you just found his inspiration. Coach Baldock does a great job of explaining the offense and you can see why he won all those championships.

The Codebreaker Kids is very funny. I read this because my 4thgrade teacher has a copy and she let me read it. My 4th grade teacher[...] knows George Edward Stanley. My teacher grew up in Lawton, Oklahoma, and G.E. Stanley lives there now. George Edward Stanley also wrote some of the 'M.T. Coffin' books. You can check out M.T. Coffin books right here on Amazon.com!

The book is very informative, well organized data, and makes for a great reference guide to College Football.

The only football program better than USC over the past 100 years is Notre Dame.

This book is the first of it's kind to be written in both an academic and personalised manner. The author's use of real life scenario's from his experience in Sports medicine fully complement the factual information included in the text.

Frank Nesser was my grandfather. I don't remember him; but, reading about him was very nice. Charles Nesser was my uncle and I have many fond memories of him. If you want to know about football's roots and the people who really lived and breathed football at the turn of the last century, read and enjoy this book. They were real people and I grew up hearing all about my grandfather and his brother's and their love of the sport...this book made it all come alive for me. Thank you Chris Willis for all your hard work and dedication to this endeavor. June 11, 2008

The World Cup is like an entire one month long Olympiad dedicated just to soccer, and it's a shame that North America has yet to get it the way the rest of the world has. Any die-hard soccer fan needs to have this collection handy.