Post by touchdowng on Dec 28, 2007 10:28:43 GMT -6
Have played and coached for a little while and seen a little evolution of our game over the past 37 years. I started playing organized when I was 10 and was already sick in the head about X's and O's.
Anyway, what the heck is the A-11 offense?
Back in '82, (my first year of H.S. coaching) we played against a team that ran an offensive set that we called the "Peanut Butter Spread." Their formation looked like this. It looked like recess stuff. Our HC said it was a offshoot of the lonesome polecat and he had some good ideas about how to minimize the damage if we saw it.
THE PEANUT BUTTER SPREAD FORMATION
X . . . . . . . . .LT. . . . . . . LG C RT . . . . . . RT . . . . . . . . .Y
. . . . . .FB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Z
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Q . . R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
From this, they attempted to confuse the defense into lining up incorrrectly and then made "Attempts" to take advantage of misalignments by chucking it or chucking it or chucking it. As their season progressed, they put some run in - I believe we played them week 5 or 6. They had a nice package going at that time. Traditionally, they were an I team and would use this at any given time. Probably more a time waster for the oppositions defensive prep. We won, but talk about feeling ill-prepared [even though we showed it and ran it during practice week]. We were lucky to only have only 1 TD scored on us.
Sorry for the history lesson but is the A-11 anything like this?
Anyway, what the heck is the A-11 offense?
Back in '82, (my first year of H.S. coaching) we played against a team that ran an offensive set that we called the "Peanut Butter Spread." Their formation looked like this. It looked like recess stuff. Our HC said it was a offshoot of the lonesome polecat and he had some good ideas about how to minimize the damage if we saw it.
THE PEANUT BUTTER SPREAD FORMATION
X . . . . . . . . .LT. . . . . . . LG C RT . . . . . . RT . . . . . . . . .Y
. . . . . .FB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Z
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Q . . R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
From this, they attempted to confuse the defense into lining up incorrrectly and then made "Attempts" to take advantage of misalignments by chucking it or chucking it or chucking it. As their season progressed, they put some run in - I believe we played them week 5 or 6. They had a nice package going at that time. Traditionally, they were an I team and would use this at any given time. Probably more a time waster for the oppositions defensive prep. We won, but talk about feeling ill-prepared [even though we showed it and ran it during practice week]. We were lucky to only have only 1 TD scored on us.
Sorry for the history lesson but is the A-11 anything like this?
