Coaches have other reasons for eschewing playbooks. Beechcroft coach Tom Dunlap hasn't produced a standard playbook for at least 10 years. We've got such a fluid situation with open enrollment here in the Columbus schools, students are coming and going from one school to another all the time,'' he said. I've got to ask myself if I want my playbooks floating around 10 other schools in the City League. Anyway, I think visual learning is much more effective.
Chalkboards are almost a thing of the past.
We make a training film as our basic tool. To simplify matters even further, the Cougars make all of their line calls in the huddle. Brookhaven tailback Maurice Hall, one of the top-ranked recruits in Ohio, was taken aback when no playbooks were issued. Coming out of junior high and making the big step up to high school, I envisioned there being these big, thick playbooks we'd have to memorize,'' he said. We've been running the same ones for three years now, so it's not that hard.