Summary: On today’s Coach and Coordinator podcast, guest host Chris Vasseur sits down with Dante Bartee, a grad assistant at Cal. Despite being only 23 years of age, Bartee has been coaching for six years, 2 as a junior and senior in high school at Perry High School (AZ), where he helped with film analysis, the scout team and scouting. In 2014, Perry added Barrtee to the coaching staff and in his second season, at only age 19, he became a co-defensive coordinator, a role in which he would have all to himself over the next 2 years. In 2018, coach Bartee was the linebacker coach for the Upper Iowa Peacocks. Bartee joins the podcast today to talk about the cover 7 defense. Show Notes: 1:40 Coach’s journey 9:28 Basics of Cover 7 17:06 What makes Cover 7 so attractive to coaches 19:48 History of Cover 7 24:26 Starting point for installing cover 7 26:43 “MOD” and other basics 35:48 Difference between mod and box 38:11 MEG 42:39 Cone 49:23 What to do vs the “simple plays” 53:11 “Switch” 58:44 Playing switch in High School 1:00:26 Star alignment 1:04:39 Redzone switch Related Content: https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/split-safety-coverages-with-jerry-gordon-nauset-high-school-ma https://soundcloud.com/user-804678956/deep-dive-on-defense-chris-vasseur-rip-liz-match-w-kyle-cogan https://blogs.usafootball.com/blog/5615/how-to-understand-nick-saban-s-pattern-match-cover-3-defense
