How Triple Option Football Academy Sparked TWO 7-Game Win Streaks at Hereford HS
July 11, 2025
In 2013, after working with Triple Option Football Academy Owner, Lou Cella, Hereford HS (MD) won the Baltimore County Division I Football Conference Championship in Head Coach Steve Turnbaugh’s final season as Head Football Coach.
After Hereford’s seventh-straight win in 2013, Steve retired after a 19-year career coaching his son, Brock, and coaching at his alma mater.
“We did the academy this past off-season. In my opinion it was worth every penny we invested. We had been running the triple since 2005. I attended Navy clinics, other clinics, bought videos etc…
“However, I picked up more during those sessions with Lou than I ever could imagine. If I had questions, Lou was there with an answer.
“We lost many players from our 2012 team. We were basically starting from scratch with our 2013 team. The academy had us prepared for any situation. Though we started 0-3 (many injuries, including using a # 3 QB) we finished winning the last 7 games.
“Though this was my last season, I am still involved in the triple option and would run that offense in a second, if I do decide to resume coaching again.
“Thank you Lou for all your time. It was well worth it.”
– Steve Turnbaugh, Head Football Coach
BUT WAIT…
Then in 2019, Steve returns to Hereford as an Assistant Coach, Hereford hires Dr. Cella AGAIN, starts the season 0-3 AGAIN, and wins their next seven games AGAIN.
Create an elite performance environment
The Triple Option Football Academy represents the height of performance-enhancement education in football, and the ultimate goal is for you to create actualization, awareness, self-mastery, and peak experience for your people.
Triple Option Football Academy Camps creates an elite-performance environment to make all your people drastically more effective.
What is Triple Option Football Academy?
Dr. Lou Cella, Sport and Performance Psychologist, began educating players on the Triple Option offense in the 1990s and this expanded to coaches in the early 2000s. In 2010 Dr. Cella started running camps educating teams on how to run the FBS Triple Option offense, then later formed The Academy in 2013.
Camps are run in a 64-play sequence each day, over a three-day period, with up to three groups simultaneously participating. When the 72-plays are completed, the camp is completed on that day. At the end of each camp day there is a Q&A session with Dr. Cella and the staff. In addition, you receive the Triple Option Football Academy to access to all the resources in order to playcall, install, and practice the Triple Option offense the right way the first time.
