We’re continuing to roll out the clinic replays from this year’s SoCal Summit on SGTV, with another two presentations this week.
Last week, we featured Idaho Head Coach Alex Pribble on program building {🔒} and Utah Assistant Martin Schiller on building PNR defense {🔒}. This week, we turn to Cal Poly SLO Associate Head Coach Kyle Bossier and Northern Illinois Head Coach Matt Majkrzak, with two very different looks at pace, structure, and offensive organization.
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We’ll start with Majkrzak and his unique approach to scripting rotations, pace, and play calls before turning to Bossier and Cal Poly’s Beautiful Game—a positionless offense built around pace, space, connection, and player freedom.
Matt Majkrzak: Aligning Rotations With Offensive Play Calling
Before taking the job at Northern Illinois, Coach Majkrzak was at D2 Northern Michigan, where his unique system of scripting rotations and pairing them with specific play calls became part of a tremendous multi-season run. Our podcast conversation with him back in February has also become one of our most popular of 2026.
At the SoCal Summit, Majkrzak broke down how he implements the system and addressed some of the concerns coaches often have when they hear the word scripting.
One idea sits at the foundation of the entire approach:
Script the substitutions before you script the plays.
For Majkrzak, keeping lineup groups together removes some of the emotion from substitution decisions, builds chemistry, and gives the staff a clearer picture of which actions best fit the five players on the floor. He kindly dove into some of his favorite sets from last year and teaching points within them…
Instead of thinking only about the best starting five, the challenge becomes building combinations that can win their specific stretches of the game.
From there, the scripting can extend beyond substitutions and play calls.
Pace can be scripted, too.
Different groups can be asked to play at different speeds depending on their personnel and strengths—an interesting reminder that playing with pace does not necessarily require every lineup to play the same way.
The full clinic goes much deeper into how Majkrzak builds those lineup groups, matches play calls to personnel, creates early rim pressure, and determines when to move away from the script.
SG+ Members can watch Coach Majkrzak’s entire presentation now on SGTV.
Kyle Bossier: Playing The Beautiful Game With Pace, Space, And Connection
Cal Poly SLO and its supercharged offense has been one of our favorite teams to watch over the last two seasons, and we were thrilled to have Coach Bossier come to the SoCal Summit to explain the philosophy and building blocks behind what he calls “The Beautiful Game.”
Interestingly, Bossier doesn’t begin with efficiency, shot profile, or even what he wants the offense to look like.
He starts with a different question:
What do we want playing in this offense to feel like?
Cal Poly wanted to create a style players enjoyed playing—one where they could play freely, share the ball, make decisions, and feel connected to the other four players on the floor. Something Bossier also highlighted in our Film Room Session with him last year {🔒}.
“Everybody Eats”
That philosophy shows up in one of Cal Poly’s central ideas:
Everybody Eats.
Rather than concentrating advantage creation in the hands of one or two players, Cal Poly spreads that responsibility across all five.
Everyone drives. Everyone passes. Everyone cuts. Everyone has to read the defense.
For Bossier, there is also a developmental benefit. Asking every player to operate in different spots and make decisions gives everyone a larger role in creating and exploiting advantages.
Of course, that freedom doesn’t mean there is no structure.
One of the most interesting parts of the clinic was seeing the boundaries Cal Poly puts around its freedom—the spacing, cutting, pace, and shared rules that allow the offense to remain connected without prescribing every decision.
Freedom needs boundaries.
The full presentation dives into those boundaries, including Cal Poly’s spacing framework, Squeeze Cuts, Stampede principles, screening ideas, and how they teach players to operate within the Beautiful Game.
SG+ Members can watch Coach Bossier’s entire presentation now on SGTV.
