Gun T RPO 4.0

This is version 4.0 of the Gun T RPO system. This system was developed this system while at Southside Batesville, a 4A school in Arkansas from 2016-2019. Ran it one season at Searcy, AR a 6A school and returned in 2021 to Southside. In 2022, I took the head football position again at Southside. Each stop has had a different QB, and different athletes and the system will always center around the talent the school provides. Each school and year has talent, but it varies often at the high school level. It has been my goal to work to create a system that has answers for each group. This season we were much different than in 2021.
The Gun T RPO system is the best of 3 worlds: The Wing-T offensive system has been around for many years. The best part of the Wing-T is the run game that utilizes angles and takes advantage of the defensive alignment by creating them. The Wing-T is also known for its "series" based offense, which has multiple plays that look the same in the backfield action. The RPO system has taken football by storm over the last couple of decades. To be able to place defenders in "conflict" with the run/pass option game gives the offense a numbers advantage at all times. This system is also great because while it seems the quarterback must make a decision on each play, it also "shrinks" his world by having him read only one or two defenders. The Power-Spread game is gaining steam throughout every level of football. To be in the shotgun, but still have a downhill running game is deadly and difficult to defend. Utilizing tight ends and H-backs has become "new" again in football. The reality is this system has been around for awhile, just not in the shotgun. When combined into the Gun T RPO system, these worlds at first seem at odds with one another. However, after a deeper dig, these offenses are all concept based that build in answers to handle any defense that may show up on a given day. This entire offense is based on answering the "If-Then" question that must be answered. A good defense will have multiple problems it presents to the offense and your system must have built in answers. Hopefully, through reading some of this material it may provide answers.
"Coach Simpson shows how you can evolve your system to fit your personnel. Too often coaches will as Coach Simpson put it "try to pound the square peg in the round hole." Coach's system is one of the best I have seen in my 30 years of coaching, Gun-T 2.0 is an evolution of the system that shows the versatility to adapt to the ever changing kids we see at the high school level." - Matt Bartley "As a first year head coach and a first time offensive play caller, I don't know where we would have been without the material that coach Simpson has available. We went from 4-6 to 7-4, to the third round of the postseason, and earned the second best record in school history. The program hadn't been to, nor won a playoff game since 2015. Thank you coach Simpson." -Mike Granato, Head Football Coach, West Orange High School, Florida