Tip of the Day - 2/27

Changing the Pace from Play to Play. (submitted by Coach Kaman)

They use key words that trigger the offense to run specific plays. They used one word, "Rabbit" to trigger the offense into a certain play that everyone memorized and knew to execute. When this was yelled they quickly got on the ball and ran the play, no extra communication needed.

To counter this, they also had a freeze call with the key word for example, like "Cheetah" that got them to the line very quickly much like "Rabbit", except they faked the snap and looked to the sideline for one play. This just seemed like a really simple and effective way to spark tempo.

I think people talk about tempo, but not many vary it in a way to truly impact the game. We use the traditional pacing or tempo's that everyone else uses (fast, slow or check) but some find trouble changing often, especially changing tempo's mid-series, this is why I have taken a liking to using KEY WORDS. I got this from the Ron West videos on the spread (he was at Clemson with Rich Rodriguez).

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