I used to have a thread on football coaching, but since there is now a football 101 section might as well post it here. I finally got around to making cutups and posting them of our kickoff return we used last fall. We had a lot of success with it. I'd say in half our games teams would squib kick, kick right down the middle, try to pooch it, or even kick it out of bounds because they didn't want to risk giving up a big return, so we didn't get a lot of returns. Our KOR is a bit different. Most teams make a wedge, often based on the direction of the kickoff. They may mix in some man blocking with it too. The kick returner simply runs to daylight. Some teams may build a 'wall' for the returner to run behind. We don't do that. We call left, right, or middle. You can see all three in this. It's not always pretty, but it's effective. This was our first season running it. In the first clip it may look like a middle return, but we'd actually called a right return. The kid cut back when he didn't have to. I told him after that he had his lane and he needs to 'trust the system'. It was our first time running it in a game though, so he learned from it. He was just trying to be an athlete, and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm not too good at these things, so if someone could tell me how I'd like to post the video here instead of making a link. If I can do that I'll change from the link to the actual video. I also don't have any music yet as I don't want there to be any copyright problems. I'll fix that later.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczBTu8taYA