Complete Linebacking

By Lou Tepper

Book Overview

The linebacker position is more challenging than ever, whether a player is taking on a 320-pound lineman or covering a speedy receiver. In Complete Linebacking , Lou Tepper tells and shows how to excel at one of the game's most demanding positions. Tepper has coached three Butkus Award winners-Alfred Williams, Dana Howard, and Kevin Hardy-plus one Butkus runner-up and 20 linebackers who have gone on to play in the NFL. In his 30 years of college coaching, Tepper's defenses have consistently been top-ranked nationally. The book describes in depth and illustrates clearly the fundamentals, pre-snap keys, and techniques used by any inside or outside linebacker in a specific defense. A special teaching section explains how to prepare quality practices and meetings to maximize learning and performance. Complete Linebacking provides full coverage for coaching and playing the position, including: - the qualities needed to play linebacker; - fundamental skills for all linebackers, regardless of the team's scheme; - keys to look for in an offense for clues about the upcoming play before the ball is snapped; - tips for teaching the linebacker position in team meetings and practices; and - a grading system to evaluate performance. The book also includes four key linebacker ability tests and 33 drills to measure and improve position-specific skills. More than 200 diagrams and photographs illustrate Tepper's detailed explanations. No other book has ever addressed this subject in such depth. Complete Linebacking is an essential book for every coach's library.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880117974
• ISBN13: 9780880117975
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

The book for you!

I do not take LineBacker lightly! This auther has "IT". Probably the ONLY book that you need on this position. It's better than I expected! Couldn't ask for more frome one man. This is the kind of stuff that is kept secret from you unless you are playing for someone who knows this stuff. Increase you entire football I.Q. NOW and get this book. HIGHLY recommended for young guys wanting to learn the position.

A MUST BUY FOR ALL LINEBACKERS

THIS BOOK IS GREAT IT BREAKS DOWN EVERY DETAIL ABOUT PLAYING LINEBACKER AND IT IS A MUST BUY FOR ANY LINEBACKER OR COACH THIS BOOK SHOULD BE CALL THE LINEBACKER BIBLE IF I COULD HAVE GAVE IT 10 STARS I WOULD HAVE.

Great Book for all levels

I first read this book when I was in 8th grade and played for a city youth league. I went from playing the defensive line for every snap of my 4 year career to being the best linebacker in the league my first year playing. This book taught me all of the techniques I needed to know and gave my coaches good resources to improve performance. Now I go to high school and my freshman year I went up to varsity and played 50 lbs below...

Highest Rating!

I concur with the other reviewer that the negative reviews of Coach Tepper's book come exclusively from whiny LSU fans. It is not helpful in any way to claim "This guy is lost." or to point to Coach Tepper's defensive record at one lower echelon school when reviewing the book. The issue is whether or not you, as a reader, found the book helpful and insightful, not whether or not you, as a fan, think the Tigers' defense was...

The best book on Linebacking available

This is simply the most thorough and the best written book on linebacking available. I wish all coaching books were this useful.