2012 Coach of the Year Clinics Football Manual by Earl Browning

Author:Earl Browning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

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ONE ASPECT OF THE MULTIPLE 4-2-5 DEFENSE

The University of North Carolina

Thank you. I appreciate that introduction, and it is a pleasure to be here. This is the third time for me speaking at a Nike clinic. I see many familiar faces, and it looks like you coaches are getting younger. Every time I look in the mirror, it seems I am getting older. I am new to North Carolina, but I have been in college coaching for some time.

The last two years, I was the defensive coordinator at Illinois. We ended up with the seventh-best total defense in the country. Two years ago, we were 38th in the nation. The year before I got there, they were 93rd in the nation on total defense. We made some strides in the years we were there. I was at Kansas State for one year. That is my alma mater. Coach Bill Snyder had just come out of retirement, and that was an attractive situation to me. I was at Clemson with Coach Tommy Bowden for four years. When I left Clemson, we were eighth in the country in total defense. We also led the Atlantic Coast Conference in total defense.

I have coached at Memphis, Wyoming, and Troy State along the way. I have been around some great coaches and had some great experiences. I have coached my share of good players.

What I talk about today may not be what we run at North Carolina. We may start in this scheme, but it will depend on what our players can do. Last year at Illinois, we did some things we had not done before because of the personnel we had.

Next week, we are going to start our off- season program with the coaches involved. That will tell us what we have. From there, we will design a package around the talent we have.

If we do not have the personnel to play man coverage, we may be a big zone team. Charlie Bailey told me a long time ago that you get your bad and average players to use up the blockers and get the good players to make the tackles. We will see what we have and build the system around what they can do.

When I was at Clemson, they criticized me for not blitzing enough. In the scheme I like to use, we bring pressure about 40 percent of the time. At Illinois last year, we brought someone about 57 percent of the time. We will do many different things and give many different looks to the offense. Schematically, we are a cross between a 4-2-5 and a 4-3 defense. As I go through this presentation, I will alert you to the different schemes we run.

Dallas is the first thing I want to show you. When we put our system in, we use city calls for our defensive schemes. We named this defense after a bandit linebacker position. When I was at Troy, I had a linebacker by the name of DeMarcus Ware.

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