2015 - COACH
WYATT
CLINICS - 2015
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| SINCE 1997 |
2015 CLINIC WILL BE HELD SATURDAY, MAY 16 - 9-NOON & 1-4:30
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AT EASTERN YORK HS, WRIGHTSVILLE, PA
(BETWEEN LANCASTER AND YORK) |
In the morning, we'll introduce four basic Open Wing Series, including misdirection and passes.
After lunch, we'll plan the practice to follow.
And then, out on the field, in practice, we'll install those four series. There will be plenty of hands-on opportunities for the guest coaches.
Just as I 've been doing at North Beach, we'll get around the play-memorization obstacle by giving the players wristbands customized to their positions.
The players, the Eastern York Golden Knights, have already had some exposure to my Open Wing. Their coach, Dave Kemmick, is a long-time Double-Winger who's attended my Phily clinics for years, and last year, his first at Eastern York, he began to mix in some Open Wing with his Double Wing attack, and led the Golden Knights to a 7-4 season, their first winning record in more than 10 years.
Eastern York Golden Knights running the Wyatt Open Wing
In the 2013 and 2014 clinics, I showed how I intended to "Open Up" my basic Double Tight-Double Wing
My aim was to continue to run the basics of Double Wing, but to do it in such a way that unless you knew what I was doing, you wouldn't recognize it! I was going to incorporate some Double Wing principles with some of the Run and Shoot, an offense I'd run in the 1980s.
A lot of guys thought I was crazy. Some considered me a heretic. Clinic turnouts were down.
Not a problem. I've been called nuts before. Plenty of people called me that back in the 90s when I started out advocating for the Double Wing.
But I believed then - and I do now - that as wonderful an offense as the Double Wing is, there were certain occasions when it simply wasn't the right tool. Not only that, I knew Double Wing coaches, successful ones, who weren't getting hired - weren't even getting interviews, for Pete's sake! - because of the growing prejudice against the offense. So I set out to find something that I could pass on to other coaches.
But first, it had to work for me.
The first season, 2013, our North Beach High (Ocean Shores, Washington) Hyaks went 7-3 (after winning just 8 games total in the previous four years), and I knew I was on the right track. ("Hyak", by the way, is a Chinook Indian word meaning "very fast." I guess I've come full circle: my father went to West Philadelphia High. Their nickname? The Speedboys.)
Now, after the 2014 season, a second year of running (and tweaking and perfecting) what I've come to call my "Open Wing" (name compliments of Coach Bryan Mackell, of Glen Burnie, Maryland) at North Beach, we're 17-4. We finished 2014 with a 10-1 record and the first unbeaten regular season, first league championship and second playoff win in our school's 50-year history.
There's now no question in my mind that my Open Wing will enable a guy who still wants to run power football to modernize his attack. Go ahead and call it Lipstick on a Pig. I care.
Now here's an interesting thing - this past season, from Day One, we had our QB and center spend a little time every day on the QB-under-center snap, so that by the middle of the season, we were able to add a stripped-down Double Wing package to our Open Wing.
All told, in 2014 we ran 456 offensive plays and gained 3810 yards. That's an average of 8.4 yards per play. We scored 57 touchdowns - one every 8 plays.
But get this - from pure Double Wing, with just a handful of plays in our arsenal, we ran 93 plays, gained 764 yards and scored 10 touchdowns. And we saved if for four of our toughest games, late in the season when our weather is unpredictable.
I'll do the math for you: that was 20.4 per cent of all our plays, 20.1 per cent of our total yardage, and 17.5 per cent of all our touchdowns.
In other words, by running a very limited Double Wing package as an adjunct to our "Open Wing," we were able to take advantage of the great features of the Double wing, without sacrificing the reps that the Open Wing required.
Just some of the things I'll cover in the clinic.
$100
PRE-REGISTRATION ---- $150 AT THE DOOR
FAQ.
Do you offer
a
staff
discount? A.
Yes. "Pay for three - the fourth is free!" Provided that payment
is made in advance - and with the same
PayPal or purchase order or check - if you pay for three coaches the
fourth coach from your staff attends free.
(Pay for six, bring eight.)