Doug Meacham on His Introductory Video
STILLWATER – Doug Meacham is a familiar face and someone that has had a heavy hand into the success of Oklahoma State football. First it was as an offensive guard that started the better part of three seasons and then after being a graduate assistant left and got a full education of the coaching business. he coached junior college at Georgia Military. He coached Division II and FCS levels in the NCAA. He met his wife, Kendall, who has every bit been the partner in the football coaching business. Truth be known, I wanted to bring her in as a co-host on my radio show. She is that good at talking and understanding sports.
Doug is a player’s coach. He know the work, but he craves having fun doing it.
“I just like guys that love to play football and love to have fun,” Meacham said on his video. “I love people that have a certain energy about them that will bleed into the entire team.”
His education, strong influence of both Mike Gundy and Mike Leach. The Leach material can even be traced back to Leach’s mentor Hal Mumme. Doug was down in the south at Henderson State and Jacksonville State when Mumme’s spread tactics were making the way around football in that region.
“My second year there (Georgia Military) I was the offensive coordinator and we did a joint practice with Valdosta State and Hal Mumme and Mike Leach were there,” Meacham told a story. “It was kind of like one of those NFL practices. You know you practice against each other, one on ones, seven on seven, and then full team. I saw how simple it was, what they were doing. We went 20-2 the next two years and ran eight plays. Everybody knew what to do andwhere to line up and had fun. That had a huge impact on me.”
Meacham never forgot it. He knows how to run power football, play-action, but he knows how to spread and run verticals too.
“I think run-pass ratio is important but I think at the same time it is crticial that a bunch of different guys touch the ball, not just one guy or two guys but spreading the ball around the field,” Meacham said of offensive football. “I want to disperse the ball to guys that can score, but also get it into as many guys that can do something with it.”
Meacham also cites influences like Todd Monken. Pretty good influences.
He counts his himself as lucky getting to coach primarily in his hometown (grew up in Arlington) and and he’s done two tours at Fort Worth and then is back for another tour at his alma mater. Meacham feels he has kind of coached a charmed existence, but be sure this is a coach that has earned his way up the ladder.