Post by coachdoug on Feb 11, 2008 20:19:58 GMT -6
We all have done stupid things coaching - either in games or in practice. Last year (which I mostly took off because my wife and I just had our first child - but I was helping out my old team part time), I was on the sideline in the 4th quarter of a game we were losing 6-0. Somehow I forgot that they scored (maybe I was thinking of a previous game or something). Anyway, we got the ball back deep in own territory with a minute or so to go. I looked at the head coach and said something like, "Don't do anything stupid and turn the ball over. Just keep it on the ground and we'll take 'em in overtime if we have to." He just looked at me like I had a third arm growing out of my forehead and pointed at the scoreboard. I've never been so embarrassed in my life.
This is probably my favorite about one of our oppenents:
We were playing in the Midget division in 2004. Our opponent was much more talented than we were, but we were a pretty good team in our own right. Anyway, they made a bunch of coaching errors to help keep us in the game. The funniest was right before halftime they were trying to score and were running a hurry-up offense with time about to run out. They got down to about our 20-yd line, with about 20-30 seconds to go and the clock running so they spiked the ball to stop the clock. It would have been a decent strategy except that is was 4th down. Brilliant.
At the end of the game, they lead 22-16 and had just gotten a first and goal on about our 4-yd line. I was the def coord, so I called our last time out to stop the clock with about a minute to play. This is what I told our players, “Okay guys, it’s first and goal with about a minute left and we can’t stop the clock anymore. If they have any brains at all they’ll just take a knee and there’s nothing we can do about it. However, I don’t think they’re that smart – I think they’re going to try to score, so if they run a play, everyone just go after the ball and make a turnover.” Sure enough, they tried to score, my guys knocked the ball out and recovered. We threw an interception on the next play and the game was over. Even though we lost, I just couldn't stop laughing.
This is probably my favorite about one of our oppenents:
We were playing in the Midget division in 2004. Our opponent was much more talented than we were, but we were a pretty good team in our own right. Anyway, they made a bunch of coaching errors to help keep us in the game. The funniest was right before halftime they were trying to score and were running a hurry-up offense with time about to run out. They got down to about our 20-yd line, with about 20-30 seconds to go and the clock running so they spiked the ball to stop the clock. It would have been a decent strategy except that is was 4th down. Brilliant.
At the end of the game, they lead 22-16 and had just gotten a first and goal on about our 4-yd line. I was the def coord, so I called our last time out to stop the clock with about a minute to play. This is what I told our players, “Okay guys, it’s first and goal with about a minute left and we can’t stop the clock anymore. If they have any brains at all they’ll just take a knee and there’s nothing we can do about it. However, I don’t think they’re that smart – I think they’re going to try to score, so if they run a play, everyone just go after the ball and make a turnover.” Sure enough, they tried to score, my guys knocked the ball out and recovered. We threw an interception on the next play and the game was over. Even though we lost, I just couldn't stop laughing.