Coaching the RPO Offense

Coaching the RPO Offense provides step-by-step, detailed information on why and how to implement run/pass option concepts (RPOs). The book explores the difference between approaching the RPO offense from a spread option mindset and from an air raid mindset. The authors have packaged their expertise and experience in their respective schemes, offering readers the very best of the spread option and the very best of the air raid offense, and blending them together to show you how to successfully combine these schemes and allow them to complement each other.

Chapter 1: Fundamental Philosophies of the Spread Option Offense
Chapter 2: Fundamental Philosophies of the Air Raid Offense
Chapter 3: Inside-Out or Outside-In?
Chapter 4: Best Run Schemes in the Spread Option
Chapter 5: Air Raid Passing Concepts
Chapter 6: Air Raid Fast Screen Plays
Chapter 7: RPO Packaged Concepts
Chapter 8: Implementation of the RPO Offense

Rich Hargitt has been a football coach since 1999. He has served as a head football coach and offensive coordinator at the high school level in Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina. He has been published numerous times in coaching journals and has spoken at both the Nike Coach of the Year Clinics and the Glazier Clinics. He is currently the assistant head football coach and offensive coordinator at Eastside High School in South Carolina.

Joel Penner has 16 years of college football coaching experience to his credit. He is currently the head coach at Dordt College in Sioux Center, IA. Penner began his coaching career at Pacific Lutheran University, where he served as the assistant recruiting coordinator under longtime coach and College Football Hall of Famer Frosty Westering. He then worked as an assistant coach at Trinity International for four years in a variety of roles, including defensive backs coach, running backs and receivers coach, and passing coordinator. In 2005, Penner became the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach on Eric Hehman s staff at NCAA D-III Greenville College. In 2009, Penner joined the Northwestern College staff in Orange City, IA, as offensive coordinator. His next coaching stop was as offensive coordinator at Malone University in Canton, OH, where he again worked with Hehman.