Oh, boy...THIS is a good thread to get the old blood pressure up, huh??
Here's a few things I love (with respect to stupid comments made at the HS level):
1. "They run the same plays as they ran last year!!!" (No kidding, it's called an offense! We try not to change it every year because that's really not good.)
2. "They're keying on your backs / receivers / QB" or whoever is getting stopped that day. (Really, sir!?! Do you think they're KEYING on my QB!?!? HOLY COWPIES!! What are we going to do!!!
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3. "You gutta get outside more!" (sure, against their two 9 technique DE's and 2 OLB's...I'll keep that in mind dad.)
4. "You gutta spread em out more!" (right, because "spreading em out" just solves everything, right pop?)
5. "They have all these big kids sitting on the sideline not playing!" (Ummm, well most of those kids are about 40 lbs overweight, have not an aggressive / athletic bone in their bodies, can't bench 135 lbs, and run a 7.1 40-yard dash...so YES they are sitting on the sidelines.)
6. "How could they not have known they were going to pass / run / reverse / counter / etc. in that situation???" (Well, there is a big difference between KNOWING something is coming and actually being able to stop it.)
7. Anyone who calls a bigger, stalkier back a "Fullback" despite the fact that he does not line up at the fullback position is a buffoon.
8. Anyone who calls any kind of rollout pass play a "Waggle" needs to be shot.
9. Anyone who calls any and every inside play a "Dive" and thinks that you are just running the same play over and over again because they can't tell the difference between an Iso and a FB give on the Veer Option should be blasted into outer space.
10. People who think that "safeties" are just skinny fast kids who backpedal and are aligned 12 yards off the ball is obviously a boob.
11. "Hey, why did they call the pass to that kid?? He only ran his route at 6 yards and they needed 13 yards for the 1st down!!" (Well, sir...we had 2 other routes at 15 yards, but one was covered, and by the time my QB saw the other one, he had 2 DE's up his wazoo, so he threw to the dump-off guy like he is coached to, rather than taking a sack. I mean really, do you think I have a play called "I Right- not enough yards for first down" that I like to call every now and then just for fun???)
12. Some of these have been mentioned, but they stand repeating becase they ARE irritating:
- Anyone who calls a speed sweep an "end around" or a "reverse."
- Anyone who calls any offense that employs a WB a "Wing-T" offense
- People who throw around the term "Spread Offense" and apply it to anyone that uses more than 2 WR's.
- People that use the term "West Coast Offense" for just about everything besides the Double Wing (hehe).
- Generically referring to any mis-direction play as a "reverse"
I hate when anyone talks about how the players weren't well coached because they "should have known" something was coming (on defense). I honestly remember in 2006 taking a timeout and telling the defense, "Ok, it's 3rd and long. If they come out with a Wing in their formation, they are going to run counter criss-cross to him. Does everyone understand??" So, the opponent breaks their straight-t, comes out with a wing, and runs the counter criss-cross for a first down. BUT, our kids are just coached by a bunch of morons, so it can't POSSIBLY be their fault, right?