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Flow It or Script It? Matt Majkrzak and Kyle Bossier
We’re continuing to roll out the clinic replays from this year’s SoCal Summit on SGTV, with another two presentations this week. Last week, we featured Idaho Head Coach Alex Pribble on program building {🔒} and Utah Assistant Martin Schiller on building PNR defense {🔒}. This week, we turn to Cal Poly SLO Associate Head Coach Kyle Bossier and Northern Illinois Head Coach Matt Majkrzak, with two very different looks at pace, structure, and offensive organization. We’ll start with Majkrzak and his unique approach to scripting rotations, pace, and play calls before turning to Bossier and Cal Poly’s Beautiful Game—a positionless offense
SoCal Summit Replay: PNR Defense & Program Building
Three weeks ago, we wrapped up a tremendous weekend in sunny Southern California for our annual SoCal Coaches Summit. This year’s Summit featured coaches presenting on a wide range of topics, from analytics and pace to scripting rotations, play calls, PNR defense, program building, and everything in between. Now, we’re excited to start rolling out those clinics on SGTV. Over the next three weeks, we’ll be releasing presentations from the Summit and giving coaches who weren’t able to attend a chance to experience and learn from the clinics. This week, we’re honing in on University of Utah Assistant Martin Schiller and
Attacking the Micro Closeout
Most offensive actions are designed to create an advantage. Once the defense begins rotating, the possession becomes a series of closeouts and decisions about how to attack them. For many offenses, the goal is to create long closeouts that put defenders in compromised positions and open up drives and paint touches. Defenses, in turn, spend a lot of time trying to avoid those long closeouts through rotations, X-outs, and other ways of shortening the recovery. We talk a ton about long closeouts. But what about the other end of the spectrum? We’ve started using the term “micro closeout” for the smaller recoveries that
What We’re Listening For at the SoCal Summit
Six coaches. A few ideas worth revisiting before Saturday. In less than a week, six coaches will take the floor at the Slappin’ Glass SoCal Summit. Several have joined us on the podcast or in the Film Room, and some of what they’ll present Saturday builds directly on conversations we’ve been thinking about for a while. So, before the Summit, we went back through some of that work. Here are a few ideas worth revisiting and what we’ll be listening for next. SG SoCal Summit Schedule – Saturday, August 15, 2026 Mike Magpayo | Fordham UniversitySmart Wins: Analytics, Language, and Principles
