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Post by Coach Goodnight on Oct 16, 2007 15:05:53 GMT -6
Coaches,
What is your opinion of the # of plays that a middle school program should have? We have about 12-15 plays, is that too many or how many would you say is too many?
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Post by davecisar on Oct 16, 2007 16:27:31 GMT -6
Ive coached 8-9yh graders and that is a very good number.
We also had several set adjustments and 3-4 formations we could run the base plays out of.
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Post by coachd5085 on Oct 16, 2007 18:23:47 GMT -6
I think much has to do with what your program goals are, if you are a direct feeder school or not, and your practice time available.
Personally, If I were a HC, I would rather you spent the time making sure each kid can perform base/down/reach/trap blocks, and can tackle, and run 4 running plays and 2 passes.
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Post by dubber on Oct 16, 2007 19:28:32 GMT -6
how much can they handle?
Say your varsity's base series is Bucksweep series.
Then, you get AWESOME, execution wise, at trap, bucksweep, counter, and waggle
Once you're good at that, you install jet series
if that is the second week of practice, then do it then
if that is the next to last week of the season, then do it then
jmo
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Post by trojan on Oct 16, 2007 19:43:56 GMT -6
We ran about a dozen plays out of four formations for our first month in practice. We later added jet, rocket, and wedge. I think you are right on the money with your number of plays.
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Post by Shotgun1 on Oct 16, 2007 20:14:03 GMT -6
You need an inside play, off tackle play, sweep, counter, keep pass, waggle, and maybe one or two different longer passing plays.
We run Inside Zone Read, Outside Zone (jet/rocket), Power, Counter Trey, waggle, keep pass, sprint out pass, and some quick passing. However, we are unable to execute the quick passing in games so far. We are not as offensively sound in this as we were in the wing t but we run what the HS runs.
When we ran the wing t we ran buck, trap, waggle; power, power sweep, criss cross, keep pass; belly, belly opt, belly keep pass; down, down keep pass; plus some trips sets with Q sweep, speed option, and a sprint out. We would add each series just as I listed them above and by the 3rd week of practice we could run it well. We could execute much better at the MS level running the wing T than a spread zone concept.
Next year our 7th graders will have had the luxury of running the same offense so they should start off ahead of the game as 8th graders.
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