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Post by canesfan on Mar 4, 2008 14:17:10 GMT -6
Lately I've been wondering about how difficult it would be to bring football to a small school (250-400 9-12) thats never had it before. If the funding was there, what is better in your opinion, to build it slowly by doing pee-wee and Middle school first, or start at the high school level with JV and then varsity. My personal opinion would be to go the youth route, it is less expensive and if it fails then it isn't as bad as a school funding a varsity program that cannot sustain. Plus, if successful the high once they get to high school they will be more competetive off the bat because they have played the same amount as everyone else. That said, I don't have experience in this (or too many years experience coaching for that matter) so i was looking for a veteran opinion.
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Post by canesfan on Oct 19, 2006 8:38:41 GMT -6
sorry the QB was suppose to be under Center. Instead of right behind the wall the spacing messed up whenever I posted. It is suppose to be a wall of 6 blockers, with two backs stacked behind, and another back behind them.
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Post by canesfan on Oct 19, 2006 8:37:16 GMT -6
Ran this last week for an 80 yards score. Must have the kids either block or just get out of the way. We have put in to plays out of it. A Pitch back to the Back of the wall, which was the score, and fake pitch qb bootleg to the open side of the field. Don't know it will work for you but the kids seemed to like it.
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Post by canesfan on Apr 6, 2008 19:26:48 GMT -6
Gus' Book, "the hurry up, no huddle offense" has a basic explanation of how he sends plays in. There is a board, with a key(color) to tell the player where the actual playcall signals are at. From my understanding of the book, they can get a play from the playcaller sending in signals, the board, or from code words. Very interesting stuff, while the book isn't a total playbook, it gives you a basic understanding of how to implement the system.
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Post by canesfan on Jan 28, 2008 14:24:00 GMT -6
Coaches reading this.....do not run up the score...please. In youth football, you are facing children. I had a team simply try to get 100 on our team in the first game (5th and 6th grade) we played this last season, they were running a no huddle deep bomb attack with under 1 minute to go in the 4th quarter. This team could pass, i think every touchdown they scored was on a pass, we were totally overmatched at that point and time. They had a reciever that was a stud, he was easily 6 or 7 inches taller than any other player on the field, and he hurt his knee pretty badly on one of those last second throws, he was done for the year. I felt sorry for the kid, they were ahead by 30 and the "coach" if you want to call him that had him in when he didn't need to be in, and got him hurt very badly. He really hurt his team, a coach has a great impact on his players at that level as we all know, so they will unfortunately probably think it is ok to win as bad as possible. On a side note, it motivated our players, and we improved so much in this season that we beat them in our next to last game. We used their disrespect for us as motivation, ala Bill Belicheck. Thank god we didn't blow them out(honestly they were much better, stronger, faster, dont really know how we beat them), because part of me would have wanted to return the favor. Back to the point though, running the score up has more to do with the coaches ego than the teams talent. If you are beating teams badly, it is because your studs are faster than their studs at this level. Coach, let your younger or more inexperienced players get in. If that player is a Runningback, put him in a position to work on his lead blocking, a skill he will need as he gets into higher levels of play. I agree with letting your non-ballcarriers tote the rock and have your backs on the line blocking if you dont have the numbers to fully subsitutes. This is what I had to do, i only had 20 players or so, and my kids loved it. Mix it up, let all the linemen get a touch if your league will allow it, they've worked hard, but huddle up run some clock, and go home. Or to dairy queen like my team tends to do. Hope this helps.
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