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Post by dvo45 on May 6, 2008 7:41:34 GMT -6
Your team stops the wedge cold every time. In 83 games weve been able to consistently make it work in 80 of them and most seasons average over 10 ypc with it. In 2002 I took over an age 13-14 team and averaged nearly 8 ypc with it running DW. So Ive found when running it correctly and having complementary plays off of it to put the defense in conflict and threaten the entire field it was a very successful piece of a nice series. Keep doing what youre doing if it works so well and I will do the same. Best of luck Now we can agree on something. I wish you luck and continued success in your future.
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Post by dvo45 on May 6, 2008 6:32:30 GMT -6
Im coaching a 7th-8th grade team this year, will let you know how we do. From my understanding, the tip of the wedge is the center correct? If you can blow the center up that would cause the wedge to crack?
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Post by dvo45 on May 5, 2008 19:33:00 GMT -6
LOS, I guess no one has ever tried to stop us using that method in 8 seasons Ask DVO his teams have "blown out" teams that wedge without diving. He's got it down, never a need to bearcrawl hence never a need to whine about teams that may accidentaly step on someones hand No need for thread drama etc Actually what Los described is exactly how we stopped a double wing/wedge team at the middle school level. Rec ball, is a different story. That is where the whole, bear claw/human soccer ball issue started with me.
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Post by dvo45 on May 5, 2008 17:39:00 GMT -6
It isn't different from zone blocking for the first steps past contact. A lineman reads a double he gets low trying to wash the pile and the one who takes the block over reading LB flow piles on him. The design is similar. Football's a collision sport, don't like it, play soccer or start a flag league. That is my issue with the wedge, they are playing soccer.
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Post by dvo45 on May 5, 2008 16:17:45 GMT -6
No matter how you phrase it, it is still coaching stepping on kids. At the pay-to-pay, everybody plays, rec level, I am totally against it.
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Post by dvo45 on May 5, 2008 11:50:57 GMT -6
How much like soccer and flag football do you want the game to be? Hey, the offense is the one doing the kicking...
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Post by dvo45 on May 4, 2008 18:47:38 GMT -6
At the "rec" (pay to play, minimum play rules etc) level I am totally against the wedge. Parents did not sign up there kids for them to learn how to crawl on all fours or dive at feet and get stepped on.
From the flip side, when the wedge is run right, it can be darn tough to stop and who cares who gets hurt on the other team.
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Post by dvo45 on Sept 9, 2007 8:18:05 GMT -6
I coach 7th and 8th grade.
By "bad practices" I mean kids not putting fourth a good effort, goofing around, not taking practice serious.
I actually tried to do some stuff the kids like doing, but even then, they still did not put in any effort.
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Post by dvo45 on Sept 9, 2007 1:29:51 GMT -6
Long story short, my team has been having very bad practices all week. Saturday morning I was really down on the kids and acting in a way I normally do not act. I actually feel really bad about how I mad a "clown" out of myself and apologized to the head coach because of it.
I guess my questions are; 1. How, as a coach, do you stay positive when the team is looking bad?
2. Any suggestions on trying to get a teams "energy" reversed?
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Post by dvo45 on Jun 22, 2007 22:56:32 GMT -6
I have never coached against Indy.
I have nothing against Indy. From what I have been told, Indy administration is very smart about the "nations longest winning streak"...
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Post by dvo45 on Jun 22, 2007 21:39:15 GMT -6
Indy learns from scrimmages...who not to play if they do not have too.
I would not be surpised at all if Indy would not play in the Hebstreit challenge if they had to play a team like Colerain, Glenville, Mooney, St. Xavier, Hillard Davidson, Dublin Coffman...
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Post by dvo45 on Jun 22, 2007 7:16:06 GMT -6
Independence has a "rep" of "ducking" teams...
They have "ducked" a team or two from the Raleigh area as well as South Carolina.
Not to mention that they have a "rep" of "providing a better education" for students athletes in Charlotte.
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Post by dvo45 on Sept 3, 2007 9:12:58 GMT -6
Can somebody explain to me how the "muddle huddle" works?
My HC wants to run it this year, and has a play where the center is an eligible receiver.
Can somebody explain how exactly that works?
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Post by dvo45 on Jul 14, 2007 15:29:18 GMT -6
nm
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Post by dvo45 on Mar 19, 2008 9:37:30 GMT -6
We had our first coaches meeting Monday night...that was like giving a junkie a small hit...
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