Coach Calvin Magee:Has an impressive football resume, both as coach and player. As a player he played TE at Southern and than played TE in the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He has coached at the high school and college levels. Interesting note, he has never been a head coach at any level.
He has coached RB's, TE's, special teams and been asst head coach also. Coach Magee is an advocate of spread offense/multiple wr sets. He usually puts his QB into the gun, but will put them under center on occasion. He also thinks having mobile, multiple threat QB makes spread offense tougher to defend. Mobile QB being threat allows offense to outman defense in the box.
His speciality is the running game, and was running game coordinator at South Florida. He believes that strong running game is important to make defense defend entire field and set up other parts of the offense. His philosophy is make defense defend every inch of the field, his exact words. By stretching defense from sideline to sideline you maximize the defenses chance of making an error. He is huge advocate of attcking perimeter of a defense by using speed option, sweeps, everses, but balances this out with running inside with inside zone and zone trap. By making defense defend entire you field you make it easier to exploit weaknesses and find seams and gaps in the defense. Creating seams and gaps is important to Coach Magees concepts.
Other areas of emphisas is creating and taking advantage of mismatches. By stretching or spreading a defense you take them out of their comfort zone and put them into positions they are not comfortable with or best at. He uses formations, players groupings, and special packages to acheive these goals. His passing game includes play action and many combination and clearing routes. Again he is trying to get his superior athletes/players the ball in space. Everything is based on what defense does, and taking what defense gives.
Calvin Magee is the assistant coach in charge of the Mountaineer running backs; he was named WVU’s offensive coordinator in April, 2004, and received the additional duties of assistant head coach in January, 2007. Magee came to WVU from the University of South Florida, where he was run game coordinator, after a stellar career in professional football.
A four-year starter for the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1985-88, he led the Bucs in receptions (45), receiving yards (564) and receiving touchdowns (5) in 1986. Magee was a Pro Bowl alternate in 1987. He completed his professional career with the Houston Oilers in 1989.
Magee served as running backs coach at South Florida since 1997, and he was promoted to run game coordinator prior to the 1999 season. He was a part of USF’s original football staff in 1996 coaching the tight ends and special teams. Prior to joining the USF staff in 1996, Magee was assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at Tampa Catholic High School from 1990-95.
An All-American at Southern University, he was a three-time all-SWAC selection at tight end. He led Southern in receptions for four years (1981-84), was named team MVP twice (1983 and 1984) and was selected as MVP of the 1984 Freedom Bowl. Magee was inducted to the Southern University Hall of Fame in 2000.
Magee, a New Orleans native, completed his degree work in criminology at South Florida in 1990. Magee and his wife Rosie have three children, Jade, Bryson and Jasmine.
The American Football Coaches Association named Magee as its 2007 Assistant Coach of the Year. Magee also earned one of the five finalist spots for the Broyles Award, which is the most prestigious honor an assistant coach can receive. The Broyles Award committee praised Magee for his involvment in the development of WVU's running game. Spearheading West Virginia’s revolutionary running game, which features a zone-read, spread offense that forces defenses to defend as many as four different options from the quarterback on any one play.
He usually recruits the south area with LA, GA, AL and FL along with recruiting PA as well at WV which seems almost all their coaches were in PA to recruit.
Magee’s All-Conference Players
Avon Cobourne..(2001, 2002)...West Virginia...all-BIG EAST*
Kay-Jay Harris..(2004)..............West Virginia...all-BIG EAST
Steve Slaton.......(2005-06)........West Virginia...all-BIG EAST*
Quincy Wilson....(2003)..............West Virginia...all-BIG EAST*
* All-American
Calvin Magee has a video regarding the run game if interested:
http://www.championshipproductions.com/cgi-bin/champ/p/Football/The-Spread-Offense-Outside-Run-Game_FD-02057B.html?id=6hnQEghs
Also a 3 DVD set of the WV offense (inside and outside running game along with the 3-3-5 stack defense).
http://www.championshipproductions.com/cgi-bin/champ/p/Football/West-Virginia-3-Pack_FD-02057.html
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