Amazing! Exactly the type of content I've been searching for. I hope to budget a way to subscribe to your patreon my friend. Thank you for this wonderful free content
I know, right? OC was Doug Redmann, but I can't find too much about him (played Guard at Illinois in the late 60's). The HC at Purdue, Jim Young, was a defensive guy. This is why I love football history; every decade is simplified down into its "typical" offenses and defenses, and we have all these ideas about what the game looked like, but there was always so much variety and so much weird stuff, and a lot of that weird stuff is actually tied to great coaches from even earlier decades. In this case, I don't know how for sure what the lineage might be, but if I were to do a deep dive I know where I'd start; Illinois' OC when Redmann played there was Ellis Rainsberger. He played at Kansas State in the mid-50's. His HC there was Bus Mertes, who was at Iowa Pre-Flight during WWII with Bud Wilkinson and Jim Tatum (not that this explained that deep shotgun alignment). In 1949, Mertes played for the Giants, where Steve Owen was incredibly interested in the "Southwest Spread," which Owen connects to Dutch Meyer (TCU) and Matty Bell (SMU). Meyer's spread, at least, came out of the single/double wing world, where a deep tailback took a direct snap (almost like the Wildcat, except the tailback in these offenses was also your best passer). Formationally, with a few alignment changes, this also reminds me of a Short Punt formation. Connected to your observation about this looking like a Punt formation: the Short Punt was a common offensive formation into the 1930's, and was known as a great formation for forward passing, shovel passes, and trap plays. This was a super fun offense going back before the 1930's, with a lot of deception involved (imagine that the "QB" in the Purdue clip is taking a shotgun snap, but can then throw shovel passes to the Backs in front of him with all sorts of fakes and mis-direction). There's something underlying in that Purdue offense, and I bet it's super interesting, but I don't know what it is!
Always interested. I don't have much film on his defense at the moment, but at the very least I'll look for a game to break down from this upcoming season.
@@TheCoordinatorProject wow man, just finishing up the video and its really good stuff. advanced enough to keep people interested but also enough simple concepts explained for idiots (myself😂) i feel smart for knowing different cov 3 looks now!
we missed u bro😭
Oh shit a whole documentary 🍿
Dude the amount of detail and research you do is incredible
I'm glad it comes through! Doing the research for this channel makes me love and appreciate the game even more, so I get a ton out of it as well.
@@TheCoordinatorProject Bro we need on ESPN that the kind of spirit we need in sports journalism
We love you. Now we need Mike elko my Irish play a&m this year
get ready to learn sabanese buddy!
good luck with your patreon thing. i always liked your videos.
Thanks!
Amazing! Exactly the type of content I've been searching for. I hope to budget a way to subscribe to your patreon my friend. Thank you for this wonderful free content
Of course! This stuff's a lot of fun to make and research, so it's a pleasure for me as well.
The holy grail
when is part 2 coming😁
25:11. That's the farthest back I've seen a QB get the ball in a shotgun formation. It almost looks like a punt. lol
I know, right? OC was Doug Redmann, but I can't find too much about him (played Guard at Illinois in the late 60's). The HC at Purdue, Jim Young, was a defensive guy. This is why I love football history; every decade is simplified down into its "typical" offenses and defenses, and we have all these ideas about what the game looked like, but there was always so much variety and so much weird stuff, and a lot of that weird stuff is actually tied to great coaches from even earlier decades.
In this case, I don't know how for sure what the lineage might be, but if I were to do a deep dive I know where I'd start; Illinois' OC when Redmann played there was Ellis Rainsberger. He played at Kansas State in the mid-50's. His HC there was Bus Mertes, who was at Iowa Pre-Flight during WWII with Bud Wilkinson and Jim Tatum (not that this explained that deep shotgun alignment). In 1949, Mertes played for the Giants, where Steve Owen was incredibly interested in the "Southwest Spread," which Owen connects to Dutch Meyer (TCU) and Matty Bell (SMU). Meyer's spread, at least, came out of the single/double wing world, where a deep tailback took a direct snap (almost like the Wildcat, except the tailback in these offenses was also your best passer).
Formationally, with a few alignment changes, this also reminds me of a Short Punt formation. Connected to your observation about this looking like a Punt formation: the Short Punt was a common offensive formation into the 1930's, and was known as a great formation for forward passing, shovel passes, and trap plays. This was a super fun offense going back before the 1930's, with a lot of deception involved (imagine that the "QB" in the Purdue clip is taking a shotgun snap, but can then throw shovel passes to the Backs in front of him with all sorts of fakes and mis-direction).
There's something underlying in that Purdue offense, and I bet it's super interesting, but I don't know what it is!
Wommack 4-2-5 Swarm development? Any interest?
Always interested. I don't have much film on his defense at the moment, but at the very least I'll look for a game to break down from this upcoming season.
35:38 the bones of the hank passing concept
Yessir!
where do you ge this film??
Almost all of it comes from UA-cam. Sometimes you have to get creative with your search terms to unearth it, but there's a TON of stuff out there.
@@TheCoordinatorProject wow man, just finishing up the video and its really good stuff. advanced enough to keep people interested but also enough simple concepts explained for idiots (myself😂) i feel smart for knowing different cov 3 looks now!
@@naikznn Haha, that's exactly the kind of description I want for this channel. Thanks for watching!