This article is taken from extensive notes by Donnie Bruchhaus, a friend and football coach from Louisiana. We’ve been meeting up at the past few National Wing-T Clinics and he graciously shared his notes with me. Blair Hubbard is the head football coach at Broomfield High in Colorado. He has published quite a few materials on his offense, including Faster Than the Fly. Coach Hubbard likes Rocket sweep better than Fly sweep (Jet) because he can get to the edge faster. According to him it takes 1.8 seconds to get to the edge in Jet and 1.4 in Rocket. Rocket creates serious Edge Conflict for the defense, and he loves running it against teams that blitz a lot. His base formation is TE/WB to one side, SE/WB to the other, QB in normal GUN alignment with offset back (tailback) to his right or left. His fullback is called a Tailback, because no kid wants to be called fullback anymore :-). He likes to have two vertical threats to the backside. A sample formation would be: Double SE’s Double Slots TB would be on left side between SE and Slot No backs, only QB. TB comes in Rocket motion leaving the SE and Slot on backside This allows for a fake Rocket and raise up to throw vertical to backside. The Slot is usually the open receiver. He uses a ‘2 handed basketball chest pass’ to get the ball from QB to ball carrier, with the QB opening to the direction that the ball is going and chest pass it to the back without reversing out. Rocket is great on the goal line, and he tells the ball carrier that it is a “race to the front pylon”. Play Calling System He numbers his linemen from left to right; LTE (5), LT (3), LG (1), C (he didn’t give him a #), RG (2), RT (4), RTE (6). His play calling system is a 3 digit number. Example: 136 Power 1st # is the lineman who is pulling (LG) 3 is the ballcarrier (LHB) 6 is the hole (Off Tackle Right) Power is the scheme. Another example: 221 Trap RG pulling TB carrying 1 hole Trap scheme He has wristbands with the plays on them and rules for