Dr. Lou Cella: Transforming Football Programs
June 8, 2025
Dr. Lou Cella, a Doctor of Sport and Performance Psychology, can transform your football program in 2025 by implementing his proven Triple Option offense system. Through the Triple Option Football Academy’s in-person camps or online academy, Dr. Cella provides comprehensive training in play-calling, installation, and practice of the Army/Air Force Flexbone Triple Option. His method […]
Transforming Programs with Dr. Cella and the Flexbone Triple Option
May 30, 2025
Dr. Lou Cella, a Sport and Performance Psychologist, masterminds football turnarounds through sports science, mental conditioning, and his flexbone triple option camp system—the same potent offense run by Army and Air Force. His expertise delivers rapid results: state championships for Tyrone (OK) and Falls City (TX), multiple state finalists, and dramatic improvements for numerous high […]
Your 3rd and 10 Pass–Sprint Pass: Triple Option Football Playbook
March 11, 2021
When Triple Option Football Academy Owner, Lou Cella interviewed Josh Nesbitt in 2011, he revealed that Coach Johnson’s favorite pass concept was the Sprint Pass. Josh said that this was the concept they would go to time and time again. Sprint Pass Rules PR- Flash (Vertical to 16 yards, come back to the outside at […]
Triple Option Football Academy Process: New Head Coach’s Initial Implementation
March 10, 2021
When hired for the first time as a Head Varsity Football Coach, complete steps 1-4 before the Triple Option systematic installation process begins. Once Steps 1-4 are completed, here is what gets installed next. 5. Huddle 6. Cadence (Down, Ready, Sethut) 7. Spread Formation 8. Count System 9. Defensive Alignment System 10. Triple Option If […]
Triple Option Football Academy Process: Your First Four Assignments as a Head Varsity Football Coach Running the Triple Option Offense
March 10, 2021
So, you’ve been hired as a head coach. Congratulations. What’s that? You’re running the Triple Option as your offense? Fantastic. You want to do this right THE FIRST TIME? Ok, here’s what you do. ——————————————————— Step 1 Meet with the players and inform them that the goals of the offense are the following: Complete verticals […]
Answers to the Triple Option Football Academy Quiz: Zoom (Midline Triple)
December 10, 2013
Quiz questions can be found here. 1- Playside Receiver 2- Playside A-Back 3- Quarterback 4- Quarterback 5- Center and Backside Guard (Playside Guard if Zoom is run to an A-gap defender) 6- Backside Tackle 7- Backside Receiver 8- Playside Tackle via Veer release 9- Playside Guard via Veer release 10- 3 ______________________ About The […]
Triple Option Football Academy Quiz: Zoom (Midline Triple)
December 10, 2013
The following 10 questions pertain to Zoom (Midline Triple): 1- Who cancels the Near Deep Defender? 2- Who cancels #3? 3- Who cancels #2? 4- Who cancels #1? 5- Who cancels the Action Key? 6- Who cancels the Backside B-gap? 7- Who cancels the Backside Corner? 8- Who cancels the Playside B-gap? 9- Who cancels […]
Triple Option Anticipation-Based Coaching
December 10, 2013
There are three main features to being able to out anticipate all of your opponents with the Triple Option. They are the following: Being able to know the situation and what you should do. Basically, you run Triple, see who makes the tackle, and if the Triple gets blown up, find out who did it, and constrain […]
Triple Option Offensive Lineman Off-Season Workout Plan
December 10, 2013
In Sports Science, the physical techniques utilized in the top 20 percent of the time in games get 80 percent of the results. The Veer, Ace, Base, and Scoop blocks are the blocks utilized to make the Triple and Midline Option go. In order to get a head start on 2014, work these drills all […]
“I just don’t think I have the Quarterback to Run the Triple Option”
December 10, 2013
I was talking to a high school football coach from the East Coast who said the following to me: “Lou, I have never really run the Triple Option, but I WOULD take a look at it. I just don’t think I have the Quarterback to do it. Thanks” –Coach ___________________________ Ok, let’s examine the best […]
