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Post by outlawjoseywales on Oct 20, 2008 8:20:32 GMT -6
Coach, this is the way it should be done, on both ends of this situation.
What I don't like to do, or have done to me, is to embarrass the kids. Throwing for TD's to pad the stats is low class and will always be thought of as such.
A few years ago I knew a coach, no longer in the business, whose son was the QB. He kept throwing the ball in the 4th quarter so his son could set a TD record at the school. His son might have deserved that record, I don't know, but doing it in the 4th quarter while being up by 40 is really low class. He lost a valuable assistant coach, who is now with me, during that game because of this. The assistant was upset because he felt the HC was embarrassing and humiliating the young men on the other team. I agree with him.
OJW
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Post by coachhortman on Oct 20, 2008 22:52:08 GMT -6
As you get closer to the playoffs and you are a spread team, you have to work on your passing game, 2 minute situation, no huddle offense etc for the easy games that you have does not help you prepare for four quarters of a tough game. We schedule the hardest non district schedule that we can get to prepare ourselves for district play. For instance, we played 4 non-district games this year against Shiloh Christian, Longview Loboes,Lake Travis, and Bastrop. We are a 2A school by enrollment (used to play up in 5A before association forced us to play by enrollment) that believes in tough competition. We beat Shiloh by a score of 49-14 I think and they have gone unbeaten since. Longview beat us 55-22 and have gone unbeaten since, Lake Travis beat us 46-31 and are still unbeaten and we beat Bastrop Fri night by a score of 28-22. Our non district schedule is weak except for one or two opponents. We have won 69-0, 68-0, and 49-0 and it could have been 150 to 0 in all three had we wanted to run the score up. We throw with our starting QB at least though the 3rd quarter and our JV quarterback comes in and does the same thing in the fourth quarter to learn how to play in a varsity game. At that same time, our JV and freshmen wide receivers get to play pitch and catch also during that time. To me that is not running up the score when you are doing that with your second team.
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Post by wingtol on Oct 25, 2008 19:31:07 GMT -6
So we won 74-12 last night. Had 18 kids carry the ball. The other team threw it 33 times which did them no favors in the clock management department. They are a first year team at a boys home and had 16 kids dress. We had a KR for a td by a 10th grader and a 9th grader, his first year ever playing football, return a fumble 32 for a td. I have no idea how to keep the score down when stuff like that happens. Our starters were out after the 1st quarter (40-0). Was not a fun game to coach, esp when you have your freshmen watching the ref's hand to snap the ball so they don't score in the 4th qtr.
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Post by davecisar on Oct 26, 2008 5:47:07 GMT -6
IMHO the opposing coach bears some responsibilty in this, he should use up as much of the 25 seconds as he can and keep the ball on the ground, clock running, squib kick of his kids cant tackle in space etc
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Post by btincup on Oct 28, 2008 12:56:22 GMT -6
This is a simple one for me.
How can you work your Defense all year to get the "Goose Egg" and then sub in 2nd string defenders so the other team can score. makes little sense to me.
If your headed to the playoffs you need the work and to get the work you need to run your whole playbook and your starters.
Risking an injury to your starters is an entirely different topic but I'm not sure that any of us would do anything different if we were on the other side of the ball.
The other option is you can call for a running clock at anytime during the game.
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