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Post by silkyice on Oct 15, 2021 8:26:57 GMT -6
Whatever you do, don't assume your young/new captains know what "differ" means. I watched a JV kid win the toss and tell the refs we wanted to kick. Didn't realize that's what happened until the start of the 2nd half of course. Ended up kicking to start both halves. Smh... While one might think a ref in a JV game would ask the kid if "kicking" was really what he meant to say, he did not. Thankfully our team won the game anyway... good learning experience for coaches too, I guess. Agree. And we coach our captains on that. But, that is on the officials. They should NOT let the happen. Our officials ask us pre-game what we want. But hey, another reason to take the ball when you win. Can't mess that up. Ha |
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Post by bulldogsdc on Oct 15, 2021 8:58:13 GMT -6
Some guy on Monday....certainly not me.... after losing the toss and the other JV HC deferring, said "We'll Kick and defend the scoreboard!" Refs saved him...What a DumbA$$!
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Post by carookie on Oct 15, 2021 9:02:08 GMT -6
Whatever you do, don't assume your young/new captains know what "differ" means. I watched a JV kid win the toss and tell the refs we wanted to kick. Didn't realize that's what happened until the start of the 2nd half of course. Ended up kicking to start both halves. Smh... While one might think a ref in a JV game would ask the kid if "kicking" was really what he meant to say, he did not. Thankfully our team won the game anyway... good learning experience for coaches too, I guess. Thats nuts to me. I have had multiple opponents make that mistake, and never once had the officials hold them accountable (even when I tried to make them do so). More often than not, officials around here will ask us coaches before the captains even meet what we want to do. |
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Post by kcbazooka on Oct 16, 2021 17:56:27 GMT -6
Friday our opponent chose to kick. Ref asked him three times if he was sure that’s what he wanted. Only two kickoffs they made… We tell our captains we want to defer. If that’s not available we want the ball. And then I make them repeat it to me.
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Post by tog on Oct 18, 2021 7:25:51 GMT -6
This is the main factor I was going to bring up. My last HC was a defensive minded guy and always deferred, until we starting running triple option stuff. That completely changed his thought process on it. (I had to do some convincing) We wanted to suck the wind right out of things and just physically abuse people that cant get ready in a week for it. Even if we didn't score the first drive, we always moved the ball the first series or two until they figure out the speed of how fast that fullback can hit. It gives this style team an advantage. And like larrymoe said,,,,if they have one screw up, most of these teas now will get greedy which leads to 3 and outs or short drives. Good, go sit on the bench with your hi falutiin offense for another 8 minutes and get even more frustrated as we take 4 a play. Navy just opened this Memphis game with a 21 play, 13:10 second touchdown drive, using up almost the entire first quarter. On the other hand as I type this, Memphis immediately answered with a 31 yard kick return followed by a 70 yard touchdown run.  yeah memphis didn't get bothered by it, they just scored in one or two plays each of their drives, navy is so confused, at least they are kind of sort of running the offense now |
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