Coaching not always about Xs and Os

Too often we lose sight of the real job football college coaches have in front of them, paying far too much attention whether are running their offense from the spread or the wing-T, whether they use an odd or even front on defense, whether they blitz or play straight zone.

The Xs and the Os are all nice to talk about, but in the end, there isn’t a football coach who doesn’t know an X from an O and what to do with his Os when your Xs are lined up in a certain way.

No, the football coaches get all the Os that appear on their contracts, be it five of them for hundreds of thousands of dollars or six of them for millions, for the personal challenges they face, for they must be far more group psychologist than strategist if they hope to succeed.

Full Article at: TimesWV

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