RICH HARGITT Over the Past Few Years, the Idea of Packaged Plays Has Exploded, Which Is Why This Book Is Highly Benefi Cial
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HARGITT Either you are running packaged plays or you are behind the times. RICH HARGITT Over the past few years, the idea of packaged plays has exploded, which is why this book is highly benefi cial. Currently, not many places exist where you can go to learn about packaged plays, what plays to run, or how to incorporate them in your offense. With Packaging Plays in the Air Raid Offense, Rich Hargitt has done a superb job of putting this information together so that coaches can have it at their fi ngertips. Marc Kolb Associate Head Football Coach/Offensive Coordinator Tusculum College RICH HARGITT IN THE AIR RAID OFFENSE PLAYS PACKAGING Packaging Plays in the Air Raid Offense is an essential book for any coach looking to gain knowledge about the air raid offense. Coach Hargitt’s detailed and descriptive breakdown of everything from plays to practice outlines what it takes to effectively run this offense. This book belongs in every coach’s library. Packaging Jake Olsen Associate Head Football Coach/Offensive Coordinator Loras College Plays Packaging Plays in the Air Raid Offense is a great resource for coaches interested in the air raid offense. The format that Rich uses is simple and fl exible, allowing any youth, high school, or college in the coach to implement concepts immediately. Theron Aych Air Assistant Head Football Coach/Offensive Coordinator Angelo State University Coach Hargitt’s Packaging Plays in the Air Raid Offense displays the Raid future of offensive football. No matter what level of football you coach or the style of offense you play, a tremendous wealth of possibilities exists to aid in your offensive approach. I immediately instituted Packaging Offense some of the packaging concepts midseason and look forward to exploring them further in the off-season. Matt Kalb Offensive Coordinator McMurry University Plays in Coach Hargitt has put together an amazing tool that will benefi t coaches on all levels. The concepts shared in Packaging Plays in the Air Raid Offense give an offensive football coach a great set of options to attack any defense. This book is a must-have for coaches looking to take their offense to the next level. COACHES CHOICE the Air Raid Brett Nichols ISBN 978-1-60679-332-9 Passing Game Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach 5 1 9 9 5 Gardner-Webb University 9 781606 793329 $19.95 Offense Coach Hargitt’s book is a necessity for every offensive coordinator. Packaging plays is the current trend in offensive football and Packaging Plays in the Air Raid Offense does an excellent job presenting the ways to implement the system. Jay Wilkinson Head Football Coach Coweta (OK) High School Coach Hargitt is evolving the air raid system to the next level. Packaging Plays in the Air Raid Offense elevates the offense to be a constant triple threat by including runs, screens, and passes out of every play. After reading this book, I am glad I don’t have to be a defensive coordinator against Coach Hargitt. Tom Dracos Head Football Coach/Athletic Director Cumby (TX) High School Coach Hargitt has put together a very effective system for incorporating packaged plays in the air raid offense that creates the potential for the defense to be wrong on every single play. Packaging Plays in the Air Raid Offense is organized in a detailed manner, including suggestions on how to incorporate these packages into your offense. Packaged plays are quickly becoming an effective way to attack an offense on every level—from high school to the NFL. This is a useful resource for any offense, not just air raid teams. Keith Grabowski Former Offensive Coordinator Baldwin Wallace University Coach Hargitt does a great job illustrating the effectiveness of packaging run and pass plays incorporated in the air raid offense in order to stress any defense. Brian Frana Run Game Coordinator/Offensive Line Coach Southwest Minnesota State University Coach Rich Hargitt is a very knowledgeable and passionate football coach. Even his great knowledge of the game pales in comparison to the passion he has for teaching and coaching kids. Eddie Faulkner Tight Ends/Fullbacks/Special Teams Coordinator North Carolina State University Packaging Plays in the Air Raid Offense Rich Hargitt ©2015 Coaches Choice. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Coaches Choice. Throughout this book, the masculine shall be deemed to include the feminine and vice versa. ISBN: 978-1-60679-332-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014960356 Cover design: Cheery Sugabo Book layout: Cheery Sugabo Front cover photo: ©Erich Schlegel/ZUMAPRESS.com Coaches Choice P.O. Box 1828 Monterey, CA 93942 www.coacheschoice.com 4 Dedication This book is dedicated to my wonderful wife Lisa and our handsome sons Griffin and Graham. Thanks to my wife for all the endless support in coaching and to my sons for showing me what is really important in this life. Finally, this book is dedicated above all to God, who gives me the ability to live each day with strength and honor. 5 Acknowledgments I would like to thank my beautiful wife Lisa and our sons Griffin and Graham who support me. Thanks also to my parents who gave me the foundation to be a successful coach. I would like to thank a wide variety of coaches who have helped me learn a great deal about the spread offense in general and the air raid version of it in particular. First, I would like to thank Greg Hill and Nick Entas of Ashbrook High School (NC), who allowed me to be a part of their staff and implement most of the wave package in 2013. These coaches welcomed me into their program and allowed me to try out some great new concepts with them. I am forever in debt to my fellow high school coaches who have helped in numerous ways to provide me with insight into various aspects of the spread offense and the air raid offense. These generous coaches include: Brent Eckley of Jackson (MO) Senior High, Matt Beam of Burns High School (NC), Lee Sadler of Mountain Home (AR) High School, John Allison and Ken Leonard of Sacred Heart-Griffin High School (IL), Derek Leonard of Rochester (IL) High School, Mark Grounds of Jacksonville (IL) High School, Brian Hales of David W. Butler High School (NC), Bob Gaddis of Columbus (IN) East High School, Lance Scheib of Noblesville (IN) High School, Kevin Wright of Carmel (IN) High School, Tony Newsome and Scott Peach of Arlington (TX) Independent School District, and Kevin Atkinson of Denton (TX) Independent School District. A special mention must be made of Mike Earwood at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School (GA) and Robert McKay of Lake Norman Charter High School (NC), who helped me refine ideas on packaged concepts. Thanks also to Rex Lardner for helping me get exposure for this offense, and to the great people at Coaches Choice, especially Kristi Huelsing, who did so much to help us with this project. Thanks also to the great people at the Glazier and Nike Clinics for helping me get the opportunity to speak on this offense and gain exposure for it nationally. I would also like to give thanks to Coach Dave Farquharson for always being there to bounce ideas off of and traveling the country to learn more football. Secondly, thanks to Randy Niekamp for all the time on the phone and in person and for being such a source of information and support. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the athletes in Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina, who ran our system and worked so hard to represent their faith, family, and football program with such class. 6 Foreword I will never forget the words Coach Rich Hargitt yelled out to me after he sent the play into the huddle on a Friday night in October of 2002. I was a 17-year-old senior quarterback for Tri-Point High School in rural Illinois. Coach was a first-time head coach that season, and he helped fuel a passion in me for football that has only grown since. I can’t remember the exact score or the down-and-distance, but the words Coach spoke mean more now than I am sure he ever intended at the time. Our team was a triple option team, and I already knew what play would arrive before our receiver sprinted to the huddle. “Find a way!” Coach pointed and yelled out to me. Rich Hargitt’s words continue to echo in my head in all areas of my life. Coach Hargitt is one of the most passionate men I have ever met, especially when football is the topic. I never said anything to Coach about how important his words have been to me. Football is all about finding a way to get the job done. Find a way to make a tackle, find a way to make a block, find a way into the end zone. As coaches, we have the opportunity to touch the lives of our players. He has forever changed my philosophy on leadership because he models a coach who is always learning. Coach taught me that the best leaders continue to practice their skills and learn new ways to think outside the box. The sport of football is always evolving. We must continue to grow and try new solutions to reach our goals. I have now been coaching football for nine years.