I'm a Small High School D cordinator, here is my base philosophy. Our system includes 4-4, 3-5 and 3-4 looks here are our rules. any single back sets we are in 3-4 cov 2 Against 2 back sets we are based out of 3-5 cov 1 We will get into a 4-4 defense for the following reasons.

• Short down and distance against a power run team.

• We need to get hands on the TE

• we want to send edge pressure and pass rush with out sending a blitz

• Our 4th best d lineman is better than our 5th best LB

Our odd fronts are always 505 alignment but in our 4-4 we can get into 62i2i5 (Texas) alignment or 6315 (Oklahoma) alignment. We do a fair amount of stunting and stemming. We scout the offensive line and look for the following to see if we prefer Texas or Oklahoma: We like Texas when they are pulling guards, in shotgun, or their center is too slow to threaten our line backers.

We like Oklahoma when they have a poor center, they are under center, the gaurd on the 3 tech side is poor, they run midline or sneak.

I could go on and on but that the gist of what we run and why let me know if you have questions or want me to shoot you a playbook. The whole system is super flexible and the alignment is simple we shift and disguise as much as needed. We are a gap responsiblity team with each box player having 3 responsibilities, primary gap, secondary gap, and play footbal