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Post by rocketcoach on Sept 10, 2008 12:05:39 GMT -6
Here is the scenario:
A defender rips off one of your offensive players wrist bands, immediately subs out to take the band to a coach. You tell the official, they approach the opposing team, they deny it! The official has no recourse??? They firgure out your play calling system. What is you backup plan?
Have 2/4/8 sets of wrist bands? Very time consuming.
Create a signal/code word system as a back-up? Lots of practice time for this.
Other ideas?
Just a paranoid coach here.
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Post by dubber on Sept 10, 2008 12:21:28 GMT -6
I believe most no huddle guys carry 1 extra set of inserts.
This, however, appears very unlikely.
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Post by highball007 on Sept 10, 2008 17:09:41 GMT -6
I did wristbands last year and even if the other team got lets say our (Z) WR's wristband. They would have to hear what I called find it and then they would only know what Z was doing on that play. I give WR's routes to run on Run plays so they don't know that it is run unless I need a crack or some other motion block. I would still take my chances if they took one of the wristbands. We also carry three sets and 1's and 2's have them on and third is in a box for just that scenario. Hope this helps!
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Post by silkyice on Sept 10, 2008 19:42:50 GMT -6
First my wristbands have assignments, not plays, so ditto with high ball.
Next, my plays are numbered 0-99. I can call 35, 1035, 2335, 3518, flip53, signal it in with a body clock, or write 4 numbers on a marker board where only two are live, and they are all the same play.
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Post by morris on Sept 11, 2008 6:39:09 GMT -6
Signal code words to go along with the wrist coach is not hard to do. If you teach it from day one that a play is a certain signal/code word then you're kids will be fine.
Example: Ice is your ISO play. So you create a signal (act cold) so every time you talk to your players about that play you use the signal along with the name of the play. You also use other words that go along with Ice such as North (pole), Tray or whatever. So every time you rep the play and talk about you are using the signs and the words. The plays are also written on the wrist coach and even when calling them from a wrist coach in practice you combine signal and term. After a short time your players just pick up on it and you can use any of them.
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Post by coachaaron on Sept 12, 2008 18:50:56 GMT -6
That has happened to me, I'm a DC and one of our guys was in on a tackle on the other teams sidelines, and his wrist coach came off. The player did not realize it was off until he was back in the huddle and it was long gone.
I thought about what to do for a minute and then remembered that the other team doesn't know our terminology at all, so it's pretty much useless. Plus, like was said above, they would have to see what I was signaling in as well, which they wouldn't all the time. I also have an audible system that's not on the wrist coach and a couple of packages that are not on it . . .
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