High School Special Teams

You must prevent your football team from losing the football game on special teams. And, rarely can your football team win a football game on special teams. Winning field position is not winning a football game. Yet, football coaches spend much time in practice going over special teams substitutions, techniques, assignments, alignments, and intricate full field schemes. Those details detract from time spent improving the offense and defense. These are the areas that directly lead to winning a football game. In this book, Coach Bill Renner shows you how to manage your special teams to minimize substitutions and practice time but still maximize special teams performance. You will learn how Coach Renner evolved into this philosophy from the standard one of full special teams substitutions and different schemes and techniques. You will see how he uses the first team offense as the punt team and all offensive skill players on the kickoff return team. He details how to use the first team defense or the defense that is on the field at the time, as the punt return team, kickoff coverage team and extra point field goal rush team. He gives you specific scheme techniques to prevent an all-out rush versus your punt team and extra point field goal team. He shares with you how to avoid punt fakes, extra point field goal fakes and onside kicks that take a possession away from your offense without compromising the opportunity for your special teams to make a big play. Coach Renner uses diagrams, game photos and coaching technique bullet lists to impart his information. Wouldn't you rather spend five to seven minutes a practice on special teams without having to teach new techniques, schemes and depend on substitutions to get on the field at the right time? At the end of the game it is the offense that must drive the football down the field for a touchdown. Or, the defense that must make a stand to prevent an opponent touchdown. Through years of head coaching experience Coach Renner has learned how to minimize special teams substitutions and practice time while maximizing special teams performance so you will not lose a possession, get a substitution penalty or lose a game on a special teams play. That is what this book will give you thoughts on how to accomplish.