John Rice

John Rice is the defensive assistant coach at Saint John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, one of the premier high school programs in the country. He has been a high school football coach for over 25 years, and has served as a head coach, as well as a coordinator, both offensively and defensively, and as a position coach at various times for every position on the gridiron. His career has included stints at two large-school state championship-level programs, including defensive coordinator at national power Louisville Trinity, a 19-time state champion. He has been the featured speaker on over 30 instructional coaching DVDs on a wide variety of both offensive and defensive topics, and has authored two books, Coaching Nickel and Dime Defenses and Defending the Spread Offense. In addition he has written several articles that have been published in Gridiron Coach Magazine and American Football Coach Magazine. He is also a frequent presenter at instructional football clinics across the United States.