Post by coachhensley on Feb 12, 2009 23:46:36 GMT -6
**Please don't lock this thread until it turns ugly.**
Anyway. I talked to Mike Finch the Head Coach of Charles Wright Academy (a 1a Private School in Washington).
He wants to run the A-11 next year. But he doesn't want to because it's "new" or "innovative", he wants to do it for it's super spread ability because he has very few strong kids.
I asked him why he didn't want to just run super spread formations like the old BYU formations. And he told me that he believed that the defense not being able to (at least not very well) sort out who was eligeable and who wasn't gave the offense a good advantage in making them tentative, which kept the from attacking the loose spread sets.
Then when I talked about what he will do if the Fed bans the offense, he said he will just give the QB, RB and 3 OL ineligeable numbers. This way he is able to get what he wants in recievers being able to shift on and off the LOS at the last moment, could even move his QB up (even under center) and can run the super spread formations.
Of course he loses a eligeable reciever since two recievers must become ineligeable, ao on any given play they only have 4 players that can legally catch a forward pass. But if you just draw some stuff up on what you would do in super spread formations the back almost always has to stay in and block anyway rather then get downfield into the route.
What do you guys think of this?
I think this is a very real change A-11 teams could make instead of "seceding" from the Fed.
Anyway. I talked to Mike Finch the Head Coach of Charles Wright Academy (a 1a Private School in Washington).
He wants to run the A-11 next year. But he doesn't want to because it's "new" or "innovative", he wants to do it for it's super spread ability because he has very few strong kids.
I asked him why he didn't want to just run super spread formations like the old BYU formations. And he told me that he believed that the defense not being able to (at least not very well) sort out who was eligeable and who wasn't gave the offense a good advantage in making them tentative, which kept the from attacking the loose spread sets.
Then when I talked about what he will do if the Fed bans the offense, he said he will just give the QB, RB and 3 OL ineligeable numbers. This way he is able to get what he wants in recievers being able to shift on and off the LOS at the last moment, could even move his QB up (even under center) and can run the super spread formations.
Of course he loses a eligeable reciever since two recievers must become ineligeable, ao on any given play they only have 4 players that can legally catch a forward pass. But if you just draw some stuff up on what you would do in super spread formations the back almost always has to stay in and block anyway rather then get downfield into the route.
What do you guys think of this?
I think this is a very real change A-11 teams could make instead of "seceding" from the Fed.
