The unofficial coach's resource for Friday Night Lights South Orange County — plays, drills, the jersey database, and game-day wisdom built around the 6-on-6 flag football game we play every Friday under the lights.
Lower bracket plays Friday 11.13. Upper bracket plays Friday 11.20.
Championship Friday is 12.04. No games on 11.27.
The rush marker is now 10 yards from the line of scrimmage, not 7 — all grade levels, updated Sep 5.
Ball carriers cannot leave their feet. No diving, hurdling or jumping to advance the ball.
A tie goes to one-play sudden death. One snap decides it.
Mesh, flood, smash, and stick — pre-built route trees that work in the South OC 6-on-6 game. Built around no-run zones and the midfield first down. Whiteboard PDFs and animated diagrams included.
Cover 1, Cover 2, Cover 3, and zone blitz packages adapted for six defenders on a shorter field. The flag-pull mechanics and rush lanes that actually work in K–8 flag.
Every jersey from every season — searchable by team, year, division, and color. Colors, numbers, sponsors, mockups, and historical designs, all indexed.
32 game-tested drills with animated diagrams, organized by skill. Coaching points, variations, and common mistakes for every drill.
Track positions, playing time, and substitution rotations across six positions. Designed for the dad coaching with a clipboard in one hand.
Every season I see teams stack the playbook with trick plays and reverses. They lose to the team that pulls flags cleanly. Here's the drill progression that works for every South OC division from K to 7/8.
The midfield and goal-line no-run zones are the most under-coached part of the South OC game. Get the pass concepts right in those windows and you score on Fridays. Here's the framework I run.
The off-season is where development happens. We curate the camps, clinics, and private skill coaches we'd send our own kids to — independent programs, no sponsored placements, no kickbacks.
View All Camps & Coaches →Three days, position work, and competitive drills with JSerra staff and former NFL pros. Every camper gets verified combine-style metrics from NextUp performance tech.
Speed, agility, footwork, and mindset coaching from a former NFL pro. Champion Blueprint approach for youth and young athletes building the next level.
Weekly emails from Commissioner Keith Marsicola to every head coach in the league. Schedules, rule reminders, playoff brackets, sportsmanship notes — archived here so they don't get lost in your inbox.
Lower bracket plays 11.13, upper bracket plays 11.20, both on the Turf rain or shine. Championship Friday moves to 12.04 and there are no games on 11.27. Discard the schedules posted over the weekend.
Upper and lower brackets per division, higher seed is home team, and Boys 5.6 runs two brackets of ten with NYPD and FDNY out. Eight-minute quarters, one timeout per half, and sixty-plus teams go home.
Medals for 1st and 2nd in every conference, and the full tiebreaker order down to a coin flip. Gold and silver rings for the two teams in the Championship game. Winter and Spring 2027 registration is open.