Georgia Military College popularized the 3-5-3 Defense for the High School level 15 years ago. What’s changed?

15 years ago, Georgia Military College came out with a comprehensive video series on the 3-5-3 Defense. It was all the rage back in 2005, with tons of coaches buying them up.

I was one of those coaches. We installed the defense in 2006 and I took over as Defensive Coordinator in 2007.

By 2008, we had moved on. This time it was the Miami 4-3 Defense. That changed my coaching life forever.

With a little more knowledge and wisdom, it’s time to go back and look at the original concepts and videos on the 3-5-3 Defense. What’s changed? And why didn’t we stick with it?

Find out what you need to look for when you switch to the 33 Stack Defense in 2019 (and it IS the same - GMC said so!) when you listen to this week’s episode of The Football Coaching Podcast!

Show Links

• The original DVDs are still available at Championship Productions: <a href="https://www.championshipproductions.com/cgi-bin/champ/p/Football/Basics-of-the-3-5-3_FD-02179A.html?mv_source=CP00308">Basics of the 3-5-3 Defense</a> [that’s an affiliate link, but I do not recommend buying that one]
• My Playbook Breakdown on the 2008 Georgia Military College 3-5-3 Defense, which had many tweaks from the original, Season 02 Episode 11 of The Football Coaching Podcast.
• The 33 Stack Defense free 3 video series on the JDFB version of this defense.

Ready to create your own Defensive Playbook? Here’s the simple 10 Step Process to a putting your dominant defense on paper.

Coaches love playbooks. Unfortunately, most of the defensive playbooks you’ll download off the internet are going to be completely worthless to your football program.

There’s a 10 Step Process you need to use to putting together the Defensive Playbook for your football team. Find out what it is and get to work putting your ideas on ‘paper’ with this week’s episode of The Football Coaching Podcast.

It’s that old football coach that’s spent more time on a football field than you can imagine. Can you teach him some new tricks?

There’s nothing more valuable on your coaching staff than the guy who has 30+ years of experience coaching football. That old ball coach is a blessing.

But sometimes, it can get frustrating. Especially if he’s set in his ways and you want to move forward into the 21st Century.

This week’s episode is kind of fun, kind of weird. 10 Tips for getting that old coach to change his ways. He ain’t wrong, he’s just different.

There’s an art to working with football officials to get the calls going your way. Are you doing it wrong?

They can be frustrating. Drive you completely insane. Maybe take a couple years off your life.

But you can’t let the officials in your football game know that, Coach. You’ve got to keep your cool.

This episode of The Football Coaching Podcast is a deep dive into how to communicate with the officials during your game. From pre-game to post-game and everything in between.

Want to get those critical calls? You need to check out this episode.

Here’s all the slant drills you need to get your 3-4 Defensive Line moving and reacting for effective run fits.

[3-4 Defense Run Fits PDF]

Getting that 3-4 Defensive Line to slant and attack without getting washed or kicked out can be tough. You’ve got to have a plan, and this is the technique to make that plan work.

If you’re using a spill & kill philosophy or coaching the umbrella principle to your guys, the 3-4 Defense slant drills in this episode will help your players be the right place to achieve your goals.