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Post by coachwoodall on Sept 28, 2013 0:35:39 GMT -6
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Does anyone operate under the premise that your underclass men teams should not only win these ball games, but (to use a Southern term) also put the 'fear of God' into those kids. IE If the freshman team can beat your rival by 50, then do it because those kids will remember that beating for the next three years and expect to lose again and again by such a score.
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Post by fantom on Sept 28, 2013 6:37:37 GMT -6
Question: Does anyone operate under the premise that your underclass men teams should not only win these ball games, but (to use a Southern term) also put the 'fear of God' into those kids. IE If the freshman team can beat your rival by 50, then do it because those kids will remember that beating for the next three years and expect to lose again and again by such a score. Never even thought about it. I'm happy if our JVs can run three plays in a row without a clusterphuk. |
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Post by zherteltherrien on Sept 28, 2013 7:27:35 GMT -6
[quote author=" fantom" Never even thought about it. I'm happy if our JVs can run three plays in a row without a clusterphuk. [/quote] I couldn't agree more. I would be happy with alignment. |
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Post by blb on Sept 28, 2013 7:56:08 GMT -6
Double-edged sword.
There is something to be said for what you posted.
Flip side is some kids-classes feel like they're good enough and don't need to put in the time and effort to continue to improve and develop, and get passed by some of those groups they beat when Freshmen and JVs.
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Post by kylem56 on Sept 28, 2013 19:30:37 GMT -6
For our program, sure winning is important but we aren't going to play 22 juniors in a JV game to ensure a win. Our JV roster can almost change weekly because our JV team will consist of players who played 1 quarter or less in the previous night's varsity game. Every kid will play. It doesn't mean they will start or even play every snap. They may only play special teams, play mop up duty, or run plays in but for us anyway, our JV is composed mostly of kids who played scout team all week so they deserve their time on Saturdays. We focus on teaching, and running our base schemes. It has worked well for us this year as we are going into week 6 with a combined 12-3 record (Frosh, JV, Varsity)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2013 7:56:25 GMT -6
Question: Does anyone operate under the premise that your underclass men teams should not only win these ball games, but (to use a Southern term) also put the 'fear of God' into those kids. IE If the freshman team can beat your rival by 50, then do it because those kids will remember that beating for the next three years and expect to lose again and again by such a score. No. The change in kids from 9th to 10th grade, much 9th to their junior is phenomenal. Then their is the coaching which varies within the program from frosh ball to varsity... To many variables for that to hold up. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2013 7:56:38 GMT -6
Question: Does anyone operate under the premise that your underclass men teams should not only win these ball games, but (to use a Southern term) also put the 'fear of God' into those kids. IE If the freshman team can beat your rival by 50, then do it because those kids will remember that beating for the next three years and expect to lose again and again by such a score. No. The change in kids from 9th to 10th grade, much 9th to their junior is phenomenal. Then their is the coaching which varies within the program from frosh ball to varsity... To many variables for that to hold up. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2013 8:10:13 GMT -6
Double-edged sword. There is something to be said for what you posted. Flip side is some kids-classes feel like they're good enough and don't need to put in the time and effort to continue to improve and develop, and get passed by some of those groups they beat when Freshmen and JVs. I've found this to be more true than the "scaring the other team" side of the argument. |
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Post by spos21ram on Sept 29, 2013 12:45:40 GMT -6
Having that thought is kind of rediculous. So much changes from freshmen to junior year.
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Post by John Knight on Sept 29, 2013 13:39:48 GMT -6
Great thread! LOL!
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Post by dubber on Oct 1, 2013 10:52:30 GMT -6
Our youth league program encompasses all 3 county schools. We are by far the smallest.
There are 3 teams for the largest, 2 teams for the next largest, and we have 1 team......the lower division is 3rd and 4th grade..........the upper is 5th and 6th.
Before this, there was a large draft and you had a mixture of kids from all three schools on every team.
Then, the largest school wanted to divide based on school, thinking there would be an advantage in having kids play together from 3rd grade through high school.
That has proven to be a BIG mistake.
Now, that school has their talent spread out over 3 teams, whereas we have all of ours concentrated on one team.
You go through the first 4 years of football losing to "those guys", what do you think the odds are they have it figured out by JH?
After 6 years of getting beat by the same kids, there exists at least a small advantage going into high school.
At least that is what I have seen.
I laugh at our youth league's decision to divide us up by school, because by doing so, they have provided us a huge advantage.
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