Brennan Marion continues to turn the page on his aspiring football coaching career. He hopes young players will turn the pages of his new book.
Marion, the first-year offensive coordinator at William & Mary and a graduate of Greensburg Salem, will release “Go Go Offense,” a detailed look at the flashy scheme he brought to college football two years ago.
A souped-up version of the no-huddle spread offense, the “Go-Go” helped Howard University rack up points and yardage. Marion parlayed the exposure into the William & Mary job and hopes it can take him even farther.
The book, which can be preordered, will sell for $20 and hits shelves Aug. 25. It is meant to detail the basics of his playbook and demonstrate how the fast-paced style actually works.
Marion was invited to the NFL Quarterback Coaching Summit June 24-25 in Atlanta.
Marion hopes the run-first offense can catch on at all levels. He trumpets its praises because he has seen it work.
“It’s really just about our offense, how to develop players and my coaching philosophy,” Marion said. “I wanted to put the book out just to show how using our offense has taken each team’s offense I’ve been with from worst to first in conference and tops in the nation.”
The book also, in a way, grants Marion rights to the offense. Coaches borrow from one another all the time, but he doesn’t want larger programs to claim the explosive style as their own.
“I want to help enhance little league, middle school, high school and college levels,” Marion said. “From little league to college it’s been successful. I used it with little league teams as well as in Waynesboro (High School).”
There has been speculation that the scheme could be applied to NFL teams.
Marion, 32, coached two seasons at Howard, which saw an offensive surge using a style Marion learned under Gus Malzahn while playing wide receiver at Tulsa. Marion added bells and whistles to the scheme.
Malzahn wrote the book’s foreword.
Howard went 11-10 in two seasons under Mike London and Marion as the OC. Howard averaged 33.5 points and 470.8 yards in Year 2.
