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Post by eagle1coach on Mar 14, 2008 11:46:36 GMT -6
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Post by fisherttm on Mar 14, 2008 12:16:31 GMT -6
From watching the video it looks like a team from Florida; Apopka High School. Listened to their head coach speak this year up here in Washington State at our coaches conference very entertaining and you can tell he truly cares about his players...Rick Darlington.
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Post by davecisar on Mar 14, 2008 13:15:16 GMT -6
That is an Indian Reservation HS team from Arizona that often doesnt even have enough kids to field a team.
If memory serves, they didnt field a team in 2007.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2008 13:15:18 GMT -6
not apopka.
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Post by dubber on Mar 14, 2008 18:07:14 GMT -6
That is an Indian Reservation HS team from Arizona that often doesnt even have enough kids to field a team. If memory serves, they didnt field a team in 2007. Any more info on this team, Coach Cisar? That is a neat offense to watch. |
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Post by davecisar on Mar 15, 2008 5:41:34 GMT -6
As SC said go to the delphi single wing site, the guy on occaision shows there, once every 6 months etc. very hard guy to track down. Indian Reservation football is unusual beast and moving target on so many levels in many cases. YOu think YOU have problems with attendance and eligibility?  BTW no football played until HS level with these kids. Steve Shultz at Osborne HS in Virginia runs something very similar ( State Title Winners 2006) and has come out with an evil DVD now available at Championship Productions  We took Osbornes stuff and created a youth version we used last season along with our base SW. |
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Post by tedseay on Mar 17, 2008 3:40:02 GMT -6
That is an Indian Reservation HS team from Arizona that often doesnt even have enough kids to field a team. If memory serves, they didnt field a team in 2007. Any more info on this team, Coach Cisar? That is a neat offense to watch. dub: That site is the work of Jeff Pichotta of the Baboquivari Indian Reservation HS program (when they have one) in Arizona, as Dave said. Coach Pichotta is my candidate for the James Brown Memorial Hardest Working Man in Show Business Award™ for the entire 21st century so far... If you think their full spin series looks good from single wing, you should have seen them run the Steve Owen "A" formation half spin, empty quads, empty quads Jet sweep, etc. Coach Pichotta can do more with less than anyone I know of. |
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Post by draven on Mar 17, 2008 11:11:28 GMT -6
I'd love to hear more about what he does. Do you know how we can contact him, or does anyone have anymore info. about some of the things he does?
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Post by davecisar on Mar 17, 2008 11:15:01 GMT -6
As stated previously, extremely tough to get in touch with. Go on the Delphi Single Wing Board and leave a message etc He is an evil Private Sector guy and like many of us has many irons in the fire, he doenst hang on boards much etc. I dont think that school has football anymore or that he is affiliated with them now.
This isnt that far of of what Osborne is running and the full spin and half spin concepts have been a staple of most of us Single Wing guys offenses for a long time.
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Post by ocinaz on Mar 17, 2008 15:04:16 GMT -6
Agree with what has been said...Jeff is a very good coach, he has it REALLY rough on the particular reservation that he is on....Their numbers fluctuate a ton, when they were doing re-alignment they were a 2A school, then when football came around they barely had enough to field an 8 man team...Great guy, has taught me a lot, and I am not a single wing guy...Shoot me a PM and I will see about trying ot get ahold of him...
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Post by spinningsinglewing on Mar 17, 2008 17:45:51 GMT -6
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Post by tedseay on Mar 18, 2008 11:20:49 GMT -6
However, after 20+ years as a Hc and being a part of 5 state championships in football and other sports I would have to say without a doubt this was the best year I had as a coach. I know many will think this was stupid to say even after winning a state championship but this team never ever gave up! Our games were usually near 50-0 by the end of the 1st half and with no mercy rule we played all 4 quarters. But if you came to a game you would never think my guys were ever losing a game. They played hard at games, in practice and I had no kids quit even after being blown out each and every game. Because we were competitive for the last 4 years schools came at us hard. Each week we would move the ball but when you have lower level kids who would barely start on these other schools Jv teams playing varsity we would get manhandles. or we had no break-away speed so even if we drove the ball with these youngsters something would happen. As a coach I feel I did the best coaching of my career! Not as far as Xs and Os were concerned but because it took all of my leaderships ability just not to have all near 40 kids quitting on me. Even when our numbers slumped based on eligibility they never stopped showing up. So for pre-season we were getting ready for the regular season and every 3 weeks posed another challenge for us to keep these kids motivated. Then the team we thought we may be able to beat cancelled their season and they were our HC game and we almost couldn't find a team to play us. It was before our last 4 games and our kids needed a win to get us through the last 3 games. So a bigger school agreed to send us their JV team and we played tough and won easily and thus got us to the next 3 games! The thing that is amusing is how some of these teams in our new conference thought they seriously stopped our single-wing with what they did. The truth is they only beat us because they were so much better then us and if I had the kids that left or my kids from other teams they would have been killed. Their schemes and such were so poorly put together I look forward to facing them now that my 23 sophomores will be juniors next year. For the many that have heard me speak single wing football has been my life. It saved me from a very rough life and to me swing football is the "art" of football. Jeff: Welcome! I am really looking forward to seeing your revised website. And -- thanks for demonstrating everything I said about you. |
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Post by eagle1coach on Mar 18, 2008 11:31:49 GMT -6
Thanks to all who replied. This site is the best source of info in the football world!!! Thanks Coach JP, anxiously waiting arrival of revised site. You da man!
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Post by eagle1coach on Mar 18, 2008 11:40:43 GMT -6
btw, Ted is the man as well. Always giving back!!!!!!
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BTW no football played until HS level with these kids.
