The Youth 6-2 Shooter Defense - Gregory Double Wing

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The 6-2 Shooter Defense Steve Sheehan Cincinnati Academy Physical Education, Ohio (1987) I have been coming to the Louisville Clinic for 13 years and I never thought I would have the opportunity to speak at this fine clinic. I am proud to represent the state of Ohio today. Cape High School is a magnet school, or an alternative school. It is what I feel is the public school's answer to parochial education. Finally, someone on our board of education said, “Why is Moeller High School kicking our ass.” We could not compete with Moeller week after week and year after year. it was very simple to me. I started teaching in the parochial system at Roger Bacon High School under Bron Bacevich and I know why they win. The first reason they win is because they have discipline. Second, they have athletes. They draw from a large area. They have 6 or 7 parishes feed one high school. Third, they can get rid of the bums. I taught 5 years at Roger Bacon High and never had to put up with a bum. I sent him to the public schools if I had a problem with anyone. They have to go to class, turn in their homework, and they have to go by the rules or they are gone. They are paying tuition and they are paying the price. The other reason is because the kids get out of bed in the morning because they want to be at school. It was very simple. We went to an alternative program. We have another program in Cincinnati, at Walnut Hills High School. It is for the advanced students and the college bound. We have a school for the creative and performing arts. They have to audition to get into that program. Se we do have some other programs in the Cincinnati system. The criteria for the Cincinnati Academy of Physical Education, and there is only one criteria -- racial balance. How will each new application affect the racial balance of the school. That is the only criteria we have. I never see the kid before they enroll, I never get to weigh them, or interview them. They make applicants come to our school with the central office. After the racial balance has been checked, that is it. They accept or reject on that principle, and that is it. The question is asked if we can have the same other programs that a regular school has. We have the same programs that most high schools have. I think we are doing a good job with our other programs. we have discipline in our programs.We have kids that get off the bus in the morning. They want to be in school. mom and dad want them there. They chose this program. They say “yes sir” and “no sir”. We feel we have a big advantage. We are glad someone finally thought of this idea. 7 Our principal has just returned from spending two weeks in Kansas City. They plan to add a program like ours. Also, New Orleans is adding an Academy of Physical Education. Mark my words, these school will be springing up around the country. In our alternative program w teach the same courses that other schools teach. We have math, science, foreign languages, and other subjects. The only difference we have is that you have to take two Physical Education classes everyday. Everyday they must take two Physical Education classes from 9th grade year to the 12th grade year. We do have a longer day. We go from 8 to 3 everyday. We get the same pay as the other schools that go 6 hours. we had to stretch the school day to get the extra Physical Education class in. We do have specialized PE courses and we have the regular PE class as most of you have. Let me tell you some of the special PE classes. we have Sports Photography, Sports Writing, Physical Therapy, Health and Conditioning. We have one class that we call Circus Skills. Of you want to see kids develop and perform, you should see this program. This program is unbelievable. They teach uni-cycling, juggling, and other skills on the balance boards. I can walk into that class and watch them juggle and work on the balance boards and find my wide receivers. If you give them good programs the kids will work their tails off to improve. We have one coach that sits in the weight room all day. He teaches both boys and girls in the weight program. We have 274 boys in our school. We are a AA school. I did not want a large high school with 1000 boys in the school. I do not feel you can control that number the way I feel you need to in order to have a good disciplined program. When the school was first organized the head coaches of the Cincinnati school system were sent applications. Not one of the other head coaches applied for the job. I do not blame them because they did not want to go back and start over with freshmen and sophomores. Also, everyone thought the program would be a dumping ground for that type of school. But as time went by we were able to weed them out. The word got out -- you must do your work at CAPE.You must be disciplined at CAPE. We approached the program the right away and I would be the first to say it was because of the principal that founded the program that made the school go. Now I am sure he will be able to go to any new area wants with the success of our program.We are proud of our alternative or magnet school.
The 6-2 Shooter Defense Steve Sheehan My talk is based on defense. For 8 years I was the high school defensive coordinator. Then when I became a head coach I was asked if I would go over to the offensive side of the ball. I had coached 13 years and most of that time I had worked on defense and now I was thinking about going over to the other side of the football. I had to stop and think about that situation. I decided not to give up the defense. I found an assistant to all the offense. When we started our program I felt we could play defense well because that was an area that I felt comfortable with. Our defense is not a READ and REACT defense. It is an ATTACK and REACT defense. When that ball is snapped we are going to come after you. Some of the things we do on defense you may be able to use. Hopefully, some of the things we are doing will help some of you that have the type of kids we have in our program. Last year I spoke at the Ohio State Clinic. After the lecture a coach came up to me and said,”I did not like the defensive alignment you are using, but, Coach, I really like the way you are calling the defenses.” The reason we chose this system is because we feel the players want to attack the offense. It is a lot of fun to coach and the kids love it. I could not go back to coaching a READ defense. The kids would not allow me to do that. We use small, quick kids. Some of our kids are 3 and 4 team players. They can fit in somewhere on this defense. We do not spend much time teaching the READ. We only have to spend one day teaching the READ. I have heard the theory, “Bend but do not break.” We were super at this. The problem was this: we were bending all the way to the end zone and we couldn't slow them down. If we had the big, strong kids we could spend more time on the READ. But with our quick kids we want to go to another defense. It only takes us one week in summer ball to put in our defense. In our first scrimmage we are ready to go. We can run any of our defense. Early in the season the offensive lines are not ready for us. we get so cocky in that first scrimmage. We build so much confidence in one week on defense. I did not realize this until I started working with it the last 3 years. It is very hard to block for the offense. We are going to do three things. We are going to line up and do one of three things. We are going to line up the same way all the time. One we will fire straight into you. We do not use the flipper, we use the hands. We are not big enough to use the flipper. We use our hands. The thing we will do is to fire inside. We go as quick as we can. Most of the offensive blocking schemes will hold up on this move. The third thing we are going to do is to go around and outside the block. We go outside and around the block because it will screw up the blocking rules. 8 Another reason we like this defense is because no one else we played used this defense. we felt it gave us an advantage because the opponents only had 4 days to get ready for us and our new defense. This gives us an edge. This defense was designed to stop the run. I believe the first thing you must do in high school is to stop the run. Most teams we play like to run the ball down their opponents' throat. But we found our after we got into the defense that it was super against the pass as well. When you play CAPE you had better be ready to block 8 people because we are going to come after you. If you are going to throw the ball we are going to come at you with 8 people part of the time. If the offense sends out three receivers and we rush 8 it means you only have 7 men to block our 8 defensive men. We have you out manned. if you keep one man in and block with 8 men I feel we will still beat you to the QB. We feel we have the advantage on the pass rush. For any theory to be worthwhile it must stand the test of time. I feel our defense has stood that test. It is true we had an All-American running back that ran for 7,832 yards and scored 104 TD's. You are going to beat most teams with that type of players. you are right he could have done the same for you. He was a great athlete but he did not make one tackle in four years. He did not play defense for us. Let me show you why I feel this defense has passed the test of time. Something is working right for us. Statistic 1983 1984 1985 1986 Avg. Yards/Game 121.4 166.4 127.8 119.3 Avg. Points/Game 6.4 10.4 6.6 7.7 Shutouts 4 3 5 2 Sacks 27 26 17 27 Interceptions 14 17 22 13 Recovered Fumbles 18 15 14 13 Record 9-1 9-1 14-0 13-1 Those last three are the ones I think are important -- sacks, fumbles, and interceptions. This averages out to 5 big plays per game. I can look for 5 great opportunities per game to make something good happen. Our base defense is a 6-2 defense. We call it a “6-2 Shooter” defense. Our nose men line up heads up with your guards. We line two of them on the guards 90 percent of the time. Our tackles are lined up over the offensive tackles. The ends are lined up one yard outside the tight end or one yard outside the wing back. We do not like to play them head up or tight on the shoulder. Our ends have all of the contain responsibility. If a run comes they have contain. If the run goes away, we are going to drop our ends. we are not going to let the end hook our end. we do not let the wing man line
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