A Look At Dowell Loggains Coaching And Play-calling Styles

With Gamecock followers already looking forward to the 2023 soccer season, one of many greatest storylines in Columbia will likely be how South Carolina’s offense appears to be like underneath new play-caller Dowell Loggains. His predecessor Marcus Satterfield caught a variety of flack for each how he utilized South Carolina’s playmakers and his redundant play-calling all through final season.

For these causes, reporters at Loggains’ introductory press convention again in December have been extraordinarily interested by a bevy of various subjects, together with how he plans to teach Carolina’s quarterbacks, which in accordance with Dowell, has developed.

“I do assume the benefit of [having] come from the NFL is that you just be taught lots from quarterbacks that you just’ve coached… I discovered as a lot concerning the throwing mechanics from these guys and simply having conversations,” coach Loggains defined. “You’re employed along with them, you’re not telling them, it’s not a dictatorship.”

No excellent offensive system equates to computerized success, so with the ability to rating normally is determined by philosophy, which for Loggains is discovering a number of methods to make life troublesome for the protection.

“You gotta create battle, whether or not that’s RPO’s, tempo [or] play-action passes. There’s a bunch of various methods to do it,” Loggains stated. “The [main] manner to try this is to seek out out who your playmakers are and put them in spots that create battle [for] the protection… It begins with quarterback, after which goes to offensive line, and you then discover out what your ability guys do properly,” Loggains additional defined. “So I hope that to achieve success is that we create stability which suggests a number of touches for our playmakers.”

One other aspect that Dowell hinted can be part of the offense is the short use of horizontal area on the sphere to reveal what he believes is the toughest factor for modern-day faculty defenders to do.

“In faculty it’s area and tempo, that’s an actual factor,” coach Loggains acknowledged. The toughest factor to do in faculty soccer is to sort out in area… you’re seeing extra of those offenses [in the NFL] [like] the Kansas Metropolis [Chiefs], the [Philadelphia] Eagles, they play with extra space now,” Loggains lamented. “There’s a variety of alternative ways to do it and there’s a variety of methods to vary the presentation.”

With the return of Spencer Rattler, as Dowell Loggains acknowledged again in December, he desires the star quarterback’s enter.

“I need Spencer to have a say in a number of the issues [we do], and have a voice in that, and I wanna know what he’s snug with.”

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