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Post by saintrad on May 18, 2006 16:43:18 GMT -6
well....in high school as a player we won a game 88-0. As a coach lost a game 90-0. That 90-0 loss is what prompted us to switch to the spread offense and start our run of 3 state titles and 7 distirct titles in 7 yrs.
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Post by blb on May 18, 2006 17:23:28 GMT -6
I guess I'm missing the point of this thread.
I've been on both sides of lopsided wins and losses in 31 years. When I have been on the plus side, I have always tried to remember my responsibility to the game as an educator, that the other team had to practice the next week, too, and that sometimes we HS football coaches are our own worst enemies in terms of keeping the game alive.
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Post by blb on May 18, 2006 18:02:59 GMT -6
saintrad, I'm very curious: How did switching to the Spread Offense help your defense from giving up 90 (or 60, or 45, etc.)? I can understand how it might remove the zero from your side of the board, but 90 to state titles is beyond my feeble comprehension. Please elucidate.
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Post by hchscoachtom on May 18, 2006 19:56:19 GMT -6
In our first year as a varsity team, we played 9 games in the season. 8 of the 9 games we had running clock by at least mid way thru 3rd quarter, a few were already running at the beginning of the 3rd quarter. Running clock occured when there was a 30 point deficit. Unfortunately we were on the losing end of those games. Made for a very long season. The last game of the season we beat a new program as well, by 2 points. The crowd went wild, it was if we had won the state championship. In the schools 100 year history we have had varsity football for the past 3 years.
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Post by wildcat on May 18, 2006 22:13:02 GMT -6
In our first year as a varsity team, we played 9 games in the season. 8 of the 9 games we had running clock by at least mid way thru 3rd quarter, a few were already running at the beginning of the 3rd quarter. Running clock occured when there was a 30 point deficit. Unfortunately we were on the losing end of those games. Made for a very long season. The last game of the season we beat a new program as well, by 2 points. The crowd went wild, it was if we had won the state championship. In the schools 100 year history we have had varsity football for the past 3 years. That's a good story... One of the guys I work with was the head coach at a school up here in NW Illinois about 15 years ago. In his first game at this school, his team was losing, but managed to score a TD late in the 4th quarter. At that point, the handful of fans (mostly parents and kids) rushed the field and all but tore the goalposts down! This guy was shocked...had no idea what was going on until one of the parents told him that it was the first time this school had scored on offense in over 2 years! To give you an idea how bad football was at this school, this guy told me that the best player on the team was a kid with a wooden prostethic leg! In one of the games, the apparatus that held the prosthic leg to his stump got bent and wouldn't stay attached so the kid had to hobble off of the field on one leg with his wooden leg in his other hand! Sometimes, real life is even better than Hollywood!
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Post by knighter on May 19, 2006 4:42:32 GMT -6
yep, defense was pretty solid, and has been for all 6 of my years here. Offense is exciting, love to score points, but we are of the "old school" beliief that if the other team can't score, they can't win. (thus we BLEED the clock every time we have the ball...DW'er to the core here)
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Post by coachcalande on May 19, 2006 6:31:45 GMT -6
Ill chime in a second time to balance this out. In my rookie year as a head coach, i was working so hard to turn the program around. had lots of attitudes and kids with discipline problems...one game i benched 5-6 starters. we got pounded giving up 41 in the first half...it was terrible...but the refs and the other coach both came up to me (they could hear the disgruntled parents cursing- the parents of the disciplined players obviously) and said that they admired what id done in benching the kids.... after that game, i suffered one other demoralizing loss 41-22...but the best part of that game was that the dw was never stopped against a team that was far superior to us. other than that im pleased to say we generally dont have to play those kind of games often.
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Post by runtheball86 on May 19, 2006 6:31:46 GMT -6
Not our worst ever but most disappointing ....
State Championship Game ... trailing 7-0 at the half ... our FB/MLB hurt just before the half ... lost 41-0
But still one of the greatest days of my life - our oldest daughter was born five hours before kickoff!
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Post by knighter on May 19, 2006 7:40:19 GMT -6
I have been on the other side of those as well, my first 4 years as a coach I took several. Lopsided scores have never bothered me much, figure it is my job to help my kids stop them. To me getting beat by 1 or by 100 still sucks, and is still just a loss.
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Post by wildcat on May 19, 2006 9:07:39 GMT -6
Two years ago, my Frosh-Soph kids were on the business end of a 46-0 beatdown. It was the first time in program history that we had a running clock against us.
That was the roughest week I have ever had as a coach.
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Post by senatorblutarsky on May 19, 2006 20:18:02 GMT -6
Since this is about biggest offensive outburst... We had a game years ago when I was at the 5A school that I will never forget. Most crazy game I've been a part of or have seen (I watched the film 1000 times at least to figure out if we should have just rested our DBs, since they covered no one anyway).
Two teams combined for 1472 yards of total offense. We rushed for 756 (threw for 28... but won the game on a "pass"). They threw for almost 600.
We trailed going in to the 4th 56-49... and for the first time all night sustained a drive (8 or 9 min.) and scored to tie it.
The game ended when they caught a pass on our 5 yard line (I think it was the first tackle we made all night).
In OT, they scored in one play, we scored on 4th and 1. On the PAT, we went for 2. We ran a Pro I (at that time we were wishbone about 90% of the time), in the formation change our RB coach called "we need a flanker". In ran a 5'3 115# kid, and I didn't even know he was in the game. We ran an option right (great call by me- we had been gaining 15 yards a play on option LEFT all night), they had it stuffed. As out TB was going down (at the 4... behind the LOS), he flipped the ball underhanded with his right hand (he was left handed) up toward the goal line pylon. The 5'3 flanker (who played about 15 plays all season) caught the ball and was hit as he dove ahead....PAT GOOD. We won 64-63, thus keeping us alive for the playoffs. *It doesn't show on the film... but I can not believe we had no OL downfield.
As far as offensive outputs, we've had some big games over the years... but for a total game, I don't know if I will ever experience anything like that again... it was surreal.
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