The Schemes That Will Define 2025, Feat. Coach Dan Casey
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Dan Casey, coach and founder of the Play Caller’s Club, joins Richard to discuss the Xs and Os trends that are percolating across college football ahead of the 2025 season. Weird alignments, formations into the boundary, running backs out of the backfield, and the use of two-QB systems so that teams don’t have to leave NIL dollars sitting on the bench. Plus, a defensive response led by the Michigan-Ravens tree and a comeback of a Tampa Buccaneers classic.
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Producer: Anthony Vito
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming, and we ain't backing down. |
| 0:01.9 | We don't need a bunch of cats in here. |
| 0:03.4 | Looking in the mirror. |
| 0:04.5 | Everybody just do your job. You understand that? Hey, were you shut up? I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. Guys being dudes. And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man. Ah, fuck it. Thank you, Lee. And thank you, Dan Casey. Dan is a long time. |
| 0:02.5 | Split Zone duo guest, but it has been |
| 0:04.5 | too much of a long time since we have had him on. |
| 0:28.1 | Dan is a football nerd, former high school coach, all around good guy, runs the player, the play Callers Club, I should say, published author, |
| 0:40.0 | A Partridge and a Pair Tree. |
| 0:41.1 | Dan, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:44.1 | Thanks for, thanks for having me, man. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm a loyal listener and friend of the show. |
| 0:49.1 | So appreciate you guys having me. |
| 0:51.3 | Dan is one of the people who makes me smarter about football quite literally every |
| 0:55.9 | day. It's called the Play Callers Club. It is an email. He sends out to over 30,000 college football |
| 1:02.1 | coaches, high school football coaches, NFL coaches, and educated fans, anybody who wants to get |
| 1:06.6 | smarter about the game, play diagrams, film, everything. Dan is a tremendous resource for me. |
| 1:12.0 | A tremendous resource, I should say, for us at Split Zone Duo just about every day. |
| 1:16.9 | Before we get into Real Ball and scheme themes to look forward to this year in college football, |
| 1:23.4 | we got some scheme themes in the virtual world. |
| 1:26.0 | My guy has, I believe, the most popular playbook in CFB 26. |
| 1:33.9 | So tell me a little bit about making a playbook as someone who has made a literal |
| 1:39.7 | playbook in real life, making a playbook in CFB 26, 500, 500 plays, 50 some odd formations, and like |
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