Bush Leauge Tactics

Our old HC also left the sprinklers on all day one time because we were playing a team who was way faster than we were. They still killed us..

We've played against a particular team that COACHED;

1) faking injuries to allow their coaches to 'coach up' / determine presnap coverages (with a injury on-the-field timeout)

2) faking injuries to slow the game down

3) when a big play breaks on their defense, they teach their players to get in front of offensive players and fall down (to draw a clipping penalty).

Former player (of one of our opponents) told me, there coach has all the RB's put Vaseline on their jersey's and pants B4 a game.

Some other things..

I believe it was... Maybe Hayden Fry.. Who painted the visiting locker room pink..

I used to know a RB coach who would teach his RB's to grab their own face mask when surrounded by more than 2 tacklers.

"heard" about.. remember heard.. cannot confirm this.. But heard about a guy in South Louisiana.. well there weightroom was right next door to the visiter's locker room.. Well there was a sound system in the weightroom.. He got one of his coaches to rig up a microphone from the home locker room to feed into the weightroom speakers.. This guy was famouse as a rah rah guy.. And he went in there and gave one of those fire and brimstone speeches and had his players going crazy.. All of this was being blasted in the very next room from the visiting locker room.. So they heard all of it.. The home team went on to pull off a major upset by several points.

I guy I used to coach for had coached against Evangel for a few years.. He said the worst part is Evangel either doesnt, or didnt have a visistor's lockeroom.. So they would house the visitors in the weightroom.. Well when you walk in.. they have all these pictures of their players blown up breaking the weightlifting records from the years before.. So you are the OT who weighs 220lbs with a 230lbs bench.. and you see their All American DE that you are about to have to block up on the wall Bench Pressing over 400lbs.. Doesnt do a lot for your confidence.. He said they seemed to lost to them before they even got dressed..

We have a similar effect at our school.. No where near as intimidating.. but we are housed in a building built back in the late 30's.. so the building is a bit scary in itself.. And when you walk through.. we have plaques with every player who went on to play college football back since around the 50's.. there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 helmet plaques.. So it does give the notion that we are deep with football tradition.. the only problem.. the newest Helmet is dated 1999.. lol.. We did have 1 sign last year.. and 3 this year.. Before them.. the school was 1-9, 5-6, 5-6, and 0-10.. Not too many college players on those kinds of teams..

Lot of film stuff. We played an out of state team that we knew nothing about. We had a gentlemen's agreement to send film. We sent them our first 2 games, they sent us film from 2 years before under a different offense, defense, and head coach. It made me mad when I prepped for Wing-t all week and got shotgun 4/5 wide.

When I was a G.A. we had to send film to our opponent 3 weeks prior. I got all the film one week with the game playing backwards from the take a knee at the beginning of the film and ending with the coin toss.

I hated that crap!!

Lost to a team last year 63-20 ... they scored on their first five touches ... after the 4th and 5th and 6th scores they onsided ... they recovered all three ... asked the coach after the game and he said they didnt want to let us return the ball and get bck into the game.

Had other team show up in dark jerseys even though we had the home game.

I still say it was to screw up our pass attack (we had black, they had dark blue).

But the refs said play on as their gold helmets and pants were different enough from our yellow helmet and black pants to tell us apart.

I dunno....our qb threw several picks and the video was hard to breakdown.

But we won 21-0 so whatever...

With the team I was refering to I really don't think that was a bush leauge tactic, their fieldhouse and practice field were/are at the high school. The home facilities at the stadium weren't the best in the world. Then again they were the same team that only had the numbers on their side.

Heard, repeat heard, about a team that during pregames would charge the 50 yardline to try to intimidate their opponents. Well, the guy I heard it from said he had his team meet them at the 50, and proceeded to beat them like a red headed step child.

Volunteered on a staff who in the first few games of the year (when kickoff tempratures reach into the high 80s) turn the heater on in the visitor locker room the day before the game. Could be worse, he could have taken a dump in there and not flushed it.

One coach we play shoots 2 films. The one from the press box that he uses, and the one filmed from the first row of the stands that he sends as a trade tape.

This same coach was up on us by 4 scores a few years ago and he threw an option pass for another score with less than 3 minutes to go (first team still in the game). Then went for 2. After our HC called and left him like 6 messages the week before the game - none of which were returned - he claimed that we refused to trade film as a reason for running-up the score.

There is the 'Murph rule' which was started by frustration and consists of sending your own filmers to shoot your next opponent.

don't know, I think it was more for us mentally than anything else

I would paint the visiting locker room pink if I could.

I have seen some interesting things on a sideline before to "distract" the other team.

I know many coaches may not think this is "bush league" but I do: I can't stand coaches at the high school level who teach chop blocking for pass protection. I know it's legal, but it's dangerous! We lost two starting D tackles in one game because of it! To me, coaches who teach chop blocking teach it because they don't know how to teach pass protection.

Anyone else have a problem with chop blocking?