[KentuckyHillBilly5321]

vince--

Here are my initial thoughts--

You could get by with what we do (but I am not going to get into too much detail)
Base: 53 (C3)
Pass: 43 (Man/Zone Combo)

Personnel-wise--the first thing that we would do is move the 2 good ILB's to DE's. Move the toughest one to the strenght of the offensive formation and the faster one to the wide side of the field. We have made the the conversion to moving our best players at DE. They need to SQUEEZE and be good enough to contain the outside. (But squeezing down as often as possible takes pressure off of the d-line--and will keep them away from being 2 gap players).

From there--your next best players need to be at OLB. They should probably be the most talented athletes on the field. They have all of their normal reads with the exception that they need to be quick enough to constantly recover to the outside. In C3--they are going to have their normal pass reads (flats/hook to curl/etc). They should also be quick enough to run tandem stunts with the DE's (but mainly weakside pressure stunts--where the DE's should be able to drop into the OLB's coverage).

In the 53, your D-Line doesn't have to be great. And--you can make them one gap players. If you have a QUICK nose--your MLB only has to be able to realistically play from B to B. (Naturally--it is great if he can play C to C--but most high school kids are not that good to begin with). At that point, (especially if this is EKY) we would do a lot of pinch stunts with the DT's (Inside step to clog B gap) with the DE's squeezing down as well).

For a change up or definite passing situations, you can make an easy move to the 4-3. We play a lot of man and C3 out of it (with a spy on the other teams best player).

If this doesn't go into enough detail--let me know. (Some more direct questions also help me get the ball rolling here).