Basketball's Adaptable Team Defenses

by Fritz Shurmur

Coach Shurmur's 2nd edition of this book is an expanded version of a great book on defensive football. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962477966
• ISBN13: 9780962477966
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Harding Press, Incorporated
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

One of The Great Minds in Football, WE WILL MISS YOU!

I purchased this book for my private collection. This book is a steal at any price. It covers everything you want to know about defense and it does it well. It is easy to read and follow. Once you start reading it you cannot put it down. If I did not already have it, I would buy this book before they were all gone.

Greatest Defensive book ever written.........

So few things in life can ever be truly certain, but this book by the defensive coodinator of the 1996 World Champion Green Bay Packers is the #1 book ever written on defensive football......It covers EVERYTHING. Scouting the opponent, techniques, different packages, overall philosophy...It has it all. Bill Arnsparger's book WAS #1 until I read Shurmur's CLASSIC!!!!!!!! He died of cancer in 2000, but Shurmur's book on defense will be very relevent and helpful FOREVER.

Great Start at any Level!

As a Defensive Coordinator at a small private high school I am always looking for inspiration to help me develop good players from limited resources. This book is not a "how to" type of text, rather it is a "first understand this concept" that enables anyone to use their own imagination to interpret and learn. Fritz openly invites all reader to take his knowledge and use it to their advantage. The text is not too deep or advanced (as is Arnsparger's)but it is not written at a sixth grade level either. An enjoyable, comprehensive, and enlightening piece of work that anyone from a fan of the game, to a teacher or coach can benefit from in a number of ways!!

something to consider

I have a lot of books on the subject. I find this book is a good reference on alternative ways of dealing with offenses, and applying some of his techniques and ideas. However if you are coaching youth football it is a little to much for 8-15 years old level, I'm not disappointed in the book you just have to read allot to get a little. Then break it down as you see fit for the kids.

Coaching Points From a Master

Fritz Shurmur provides valuable coaching points on many aspects of football defense, such as personnel requirements, run and pass defense, pass coverage, nickel defenses, practice organization, and scouting information. Rather than present a specific defense, as he does with The Eagle Five-Linebacker Defense, Coach Shurmur delivers something closer to a coaching clinic featuring diagrams, player responsibilities, and coaching tips that any coach would find helpful and which can be adapted to work in any system.