Football's True Smash Mouth Offense! Robust Football

About the Book

In 1985 I was first introduced to the Robust offense at Pomona High School in Arvada, Colorado. We were struggling, and in the middle of the season when one of our coaches suggested we try an offense he had run as an assistant at Lakewood High School. It was the Robust offense and it fit our team. It then became our trademark over the years. Woody Hayes first designed the Robust offense at Ohio State as his goal line offense. It has since developed into a total offense used by many high school teams. This offense can be used as a team’s entire offense, with that team being very successful. The Robust offense started as a power off tackles attack using the fullback off tackle play as its base play. Woody Hayes believed the fullback off tackle was the best play in football. It is a pure power play attacking the defense with power football off tackle. To run Robust, your team must be able to run the fullback off tackle and run it successfully. This play is the bread and butter of the Robust offense. Over the years, we have found that to make this play successful we had to block it many different ways. But once this is done, the team is on its way to success. Using the base play, the offense then expands to the option game, play action passing game, and on and on. But the defense must first stop the fullback off tackle before the offense needs run these other plays. An entire game could be played with the fullback off tackle, the option play off of it and the base play action pass off that action.

About the Author

For the past 30 years I have been coaching football beginning in 1975 as an undergraduate assistant at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas.  The last 29 years I have been coaching on the high school level at four different schools, nine years at Jefferson High, 12 years at Pomona High, six years at Standley Lake High and two year at Lakewood High School.   I was the Head football coach at Standley Lake High School from 1991-1994, and Jefferson High School from 1998-1999. Presently I am the defensive coordinator at Lakewood High School, also coaching quarterbacks and defensive backs.

I am a 1976 graduate of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education.  For the past 28 years I have been teaching in the Jefferson County School District in Colorado at four different schools.