by Jim Reese What is the future of football? Very often these days, that question is being asked. The monster entertainment known as the NFL is a multi billion dollar endeavor that thrills millions for half the calendar year. A…
by Jim Reese In the interest of increasing player safety while adding a new scoring opportunity to the offense, I suggest the NFL Rules Committee think outside the box and adopt the following: A team kicking off shall notify the…
Option Central recently became a member of the CompuSports Network of web sites. CompuSports Staff Writer Jim Reese sat down with Coach Mike Schuster to discuss a variety of topics. In this first part of the interview, Mike talked about…
Option Central recently became a member of the CompuSports Network of web sites. CompuSports Staff Writer Jim Reese sat down with Coach Schuster to discuss a variety of topics. In this first part of the interview, Mike talks about the…
The History of Option Football - the beginning In 1941, while watching a basketball game, a college football coach had an epiphanous moment. Seeing a two-on-one fast break develop, he realized whatever choice the defender made would be the wrong…
Super Bowl Penalties The referees in this year’s Super Bowl tried their best to take the game away from the players and they almost succeeded. While Pittsburgh’s 27-24 win over the Arizona Cardinals was one of the most exciting championship…
A Different Cardinal (Chicago) Story Motts Tonelli Perhaps one of the greatest football stories of all time concerns a man named Mario “Motts” Tonelli who grew up in Chicago and went to Notre Dame. Even though he had been in…
Ray Lauenstein, a former football and baseball player at Hamilton College in New York State received his Masters Degree in Sports Psychology from Florida State University. While at FSU, Ray coached high school baseball at Florida High School in Tallahassee. In…
Master Defense Game Analysis - Part IV Author of The Master Defense, legendary California high school football coach Bob Troppmann, and CompuSports writer and former University of Minnesota quarterback Jim Reese viewed and taped the Penn State-Notre Dame game last…
The Master Defense Game Analysis Series - Pt 3 The Master Defense author, legendary California high school coach Bob Troppmann, and CompuSports writer and former University of Minnesota quarterback Jim Reese viewed and taped the Vanderbilt at Michigan game last…