Coach Frank DiLeo starts the tape with an explanation of the need to prepare for special situations. This often overlooked area of the game can often be the difference in close games. The better prepared a team is in these situations, the more confident the players will be and the more difficult that team will be to prepare for. The production quality of the tape is good. Each special situation is described verbally by Coach DiLeo.
Players then demonstrate how that specific play or strategy is to be executed.
Coach DiLeo provides additional instruction during these sequences. After the instructional sequence is completed, game footage from a University of Iowa game is used to show that particular special situation in a live game setting. Often Coach DiLeo shows a variation of the play that can occur in a game using actual game footage to demonstrate. This system of special situation plays and strategies is well thought out. Instead of a hit or miss approach, it is an integrated system that is based on Iowa's fastbreak and pressure defense system.