Post by Chris Clement on Feb 15, 2012 14:29:29 GMT -6
So, the new mini-football season is upon us, and, after last year's fiasco, "they" made some decisions:
All publicity will be handled by the league president (who happens to be the HC of the biggest program in town, where I am a position coach in the fall, which has no bearing here). Individual regional directors, of which I am one, can't do anything to promote their teams.
Kids will signup at the office, and the teams will be assigned according to school/region when the league has its first gathering, which will also be equipment signout day, and a bad joke of a group practice, "run" by the president's lackies. This will be the 2nd last weekend in April.
I have to find my own practice space, but my region actually does not have any open spaces (except for dairy cow fields, which we have practiced on in the past, but to which I cannot get permission for because I don't know my players) I think I can get around this.
One week after the league forms, we have our "jamboree," with exhibition games.
The next week we start playing real games, about a 6 week season.
League House Rules:
Grades 5 and 6
9-man football 5 on the line, 4 off
field is ~40x65
4 down football
Players over 125 must play on the line, if they somehow getpossession play is dead there.
Players under 100 wear flags (I sh!t you not) that the 125+ kids have to pull off.
A Byzantine rule, that basically reads: If you didn't pass on 1st or 2nd, you must pass on 3rd. More or less punishes any decent running attack. This resets after each first down.
MPP rule can be read as either every kid plays 1/4 or 1/8 of all snaps, it's ambiguous.
Nobody on the centre or in the A gaps, but it's very poorly applied. If the ref "feels he's slanting," it's ok.
You can only "blitz" once per series, but "blitz" is poorly defined. If you ran full house, you'd theoretically have a massive numbers advantage, because "blitz" is supposedly 4 or more rushers.
We will probably be limited to 2 practices a week, but I'm hoping to have a 3rd, and hope they don't realize in time to make it a rule.
Our scheme:
Offensively, we have one formation. Take a DW, split the ends wide, remove the tackles completely.
Our blocking rule for the line is OAB - On-Away-Backer
On - Nose to nose. Shade doesn't count.
Away - Away from the POA as fasr as the next OL
Backer - First available backer away from the POA. Basically just stalk block, probably
It reduces to GDB, but the BSG acts like a PSOL, because we have such a short line. Pass Blocking is OAG-On-Away-Gap. It's all PAP anyways
We have 4 running plays:
Power: DW Super Power, but no pulling guard or tackle
Batman: DW counter (inside handoff) I'm debating having the FB kickout or run it naked.
Trap: DW Trap, fake power, the other (non-faking) wing comes and traps, FB runs. If There is noone to trap he bends it up and makes an Iso of it.
Keep: fake power, QB keeps and takes it outside. FB logs instead of kicking out.
We have two pass plays:
Able: fake a power, do the whirlyfeet, and fire it to the split end coming back on a tunnel/jailbreak.
Alphabits: Slant/shoot Combo off the keep action. Mostly looking to loft it to the wing. Progression is Slant-Shoot-Run.
Defense:
We run a stripped-down 10-1, because I couldn't find any resources on 9-man defense that looked like I could get them installed effectively. The only assignments are: Gap control/Bearcrawler; Pure man coverage on a WR; man up on a RB; manning a TE, holding the gap to his inside; absolute hard contain. There are 18 theoretical alignments to understand
So, if we have 4 practices, about 8 hours of practice time, to install this, I'm wondering if it can be done properly. We're starting from the point of "this is a football." They have no experience, organized or otherwise. I made a rough list of things that need to be taught, and ballparked the time, and it just doesn't look physically possible. What can I cut? I have 2 stances that cover everyone, I can't cut a run and be sound, I can't cut a pass because I need to pass so often. Do I just install the 6 plays and let the kids run around in glorified scrimmages and daycare for and try to patch it together week to week? Or do I sacrifice the first two games to get it together properly? Is there a magical installation plan I am not aware of?
Thanks Guys
Chris Clement
All publicity will be handled by the league president (who happens to be the HC of the biggest program in town, where I am a position coach in the fall, which has no bearing here). Individual regional directors, of which I am one, can't do anything to promote their teams.
Kids will signup at the office, and the teams will be assigned according to school/region when the league has its first gathering, which will also be equipment signout day, and a bad joke of a group practice, "run" by the president's lackies. This will be the 2nd last weekend in April.
I have to find my own practice space, but my region actually does not have any open spaces (except for dairy cow fields, which we have practiced on in the past, but to which I cannot get permission for because I don't know my players) I think I can get around this.
One week after the league forms, we have our "jamboree," with exhibition games.
The next week we start playing real games, about a 6 week season.
League House Rules:
Grades 5 and 6
9-man football 5 on the line, 4 off
field is ~40x65
4 down football
Players over 125 must play on the line, if they somehow getpossession play is dead there.
Players under 100 wear flags (I sh!t you not) that the 125+ kids have to pull off.
A Byzantine rule, that basically reads: If you didn't pass on 1st or 2nd, you must pass on 3rd. More or less punishes any decent running attack. This resets after each first down.
MPP rule can be read as either every kid plays 1/4 or 1/8 of all snaps, it's ambiguous.
Nobody on the centre or in the A gaps, but it's very poorly applied. If the ref "feels he's slanting," it's ok.
You can only "blitz" once per series, but "blitz" is poorly defined. If you ran full house, you'd theoretically have a massive numbers advantage, because "blitz" is supposedly 4 or more rushers.
We will probably be limited to 2 practices a week, but I'm hoping to have a 3rd, and hope they don't realize in time to make it a rule.
Our scheme:
Offensively, we have one formation. Take a DW, split the ends wide, remove the tackles completely.
Our blocking rule for the line is OAB - On-Away-Backer
On - Nose to nose. Shade doesn't count.
Away - Away from the POA as fasr as the next OL
Backer - First available backer away from the POA. Basically just stalk block, probably
It reduces to GDB, but the BSG acts like a PSOL, because we have such a short line. Pass Blocking is OAG-On-Away-Gap. It's all PAP anyways
We have 4 running plays:
Power: DW Super Power, but no pulling guard or tackle
Batman: DW counter (inside handoff) I'm debating having the FB kickout or run it naked.
Trap: DW Trap, fake power, the other (non-faking) wing comes and traps, FB runs. If There is noone to trap he bends it up and makes an Iso of it.
Keep: fake power, QB keeps and takes it outside. FB logs instead of kicking out.
We have two pass plays:
Able: fake a power, do the whirlyfeet, and fire it to the split end coming back on a tunnel/jailbreak.
Alphabits: Slant/shoot Combo off the keep action. Mostly looking to loft it to the wing. Progression is Slant-Shoot-Run.
Defense:
We run a stripped-down 10-1, because I couldn't find any resources on 9-man defense that looked like I could get them installed effectively. The only assignments are: Gap control/Bearcrawler; Pure man coverage on a WR; man up on a RB; manning a TE, holding the gap to his inside; absolute hard contain. There are 18 theoretical alignments to understand
So, if we have 4 practices, about 8 hours of practice time, to install this, I'm wondering if it can be done properly. We're starting from the point of "this is a football." They have no experience, organized or otherwise. I made a rough list of things that need to be taught, and ballparked the time, and it just doesn't look physically possible. What can I cut? I have 2 stances that cover everyone, I can't cut a run and be sound, I can't cut a pass because I need to pass so often. Do I just install the 6 plays and let the kids run around in glorified scrimmages and daycare for and try to patch it together week to week? Or do I sacrifice the first two games to get it together properly? Is there a magical installation plan I am not aware of?
Thanks Guys
Chris Clement