On today’s podcast, host Keith Grabowski welcomes the Head Football Coach at Medina High School, Larry Laird. Prior to his time at Medina, Coach won multiple state titles between his time as an assistant and coordinator at Kenton High School and Avon Lake. Laird is known for his unique empty offenses and he joins Grabowski today to walk about some of the intricacies in those offenses as well as his journey through coaching.

Show Notes:

1:26 Coach’s Journey

2:30 Key lessons Coach has learned along the way

4:22 How Coach learned to think outside the box from previous coaches

6:24 How teams gameplanned against him

8:10 How his unique offense impacted the culture of his program and his numbers

10:16 How they deal with weather given their offensive system

12:24 How he helped mold Avon Lake’s offense

15:30 Key aspects to forming his culture

17:21 How to keep the positive momentum in a program moving from year to year

19:47 Challenges his program has faced this offseason

24:28 What Coach will be talking about at his upcoming clinic

25:56 How much tite front they see with their base empty sets

27:30 Technique for their unique snaps

28:13 Running plays for the QB and how it becomes it an advantage in their offense

30:00 What they see in coverage

31:55 Self scout and internal focus

34:01 Utilizing the R4 system

35:45 Using players from the other side of the ball when you have a 2 platoon team

38:22 Winning Edge

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