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Post by blb on Jun 2, 2024 12:29:09 GMT -6
This wasn't on field but hey, Time Out for Laughter.
Involves the RB named Stack who wasn't too bright I mentioned earlier.
Shortly after he graduated (I assume) I ran into him pumping gas at local business (that was still done then).
After pleasantries I asked him what his plans for his future were.
He told me in all earnestness he thought he'd play Football for Army.
He believed by volunteering-enlisting he could play for West Point.
After I explained to him as nicely as I could that wasn't an option and why,
He replied "Oh, okay. Well then maybe I'll try out for the Cowboys."
Several years later when I got back into college coaching at local school I bumped into him on campus.
He was working maintenance-driving truck.
God love him he seemed to be happy-doing well and glad to reconnect with me.
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Post by CoachK on Jun 5, 2024 12:44:10 GMT -6
This was a summer 7 on 7 jamboree at another high school, but one of the offensive coaches held things up for a good 5-10 minutes because he absolutely insisted that he get a 6th WR, otherwise the defense gets 7 and "we get 6." He'd drawn up his cards and everything that way. no Center?  ?? It probably makes the story worse that nobody managed to explain that to him. I was still pretty new to coaching, and brand new on that staff (literally my first day with them), so I didn't say anything and let it play out.
And I cut him some further slack since this was East Bay football, at Clayton Valley HS when Tim Murphy was at his doublewing height there. I don't think anybody actually threw a forward pass within 100 miles of that school until like 2019. 7 on 7 probably meant 7 pullers to 7 DL to them.
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Post by bignose on Jun 5, 2024 13:14:39 GMT -6
Dumb comments Department:
We were a Double Wing team, so our primary use for 7-7 was to give our defensive backs some work.
However, I did draw up some pass patterns from our double tight, double wing formation (in addition to some conventional Spread sets) just to screw with the other guys. It was nothing that we would run during the season.
I did over hear one of the younger assistant coaches from another team talking to his buddies: "Don't they know this is 7-7? Why are they lining up in a punt formation?"
At which point we watched his kids trying to cover us man-to-man in the Double Wing, and "picked" them apart with all sorts of crossing routes. lol
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Post by SAcoach on Jun 7, 2024 21:13:51 GMT -6
In the huddle. “Alright guys, we are just going to kneel the ball here and end the game. Got it!!” “Yes sir!”
Proceed to snap the ball and the qb kneels along with all the Wr’s.
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Post by blockandtackle on Jun 7, 2024 21:34:54 GMT -6
Had a kid allow a kickoff to roll to his feet, then turned and walked off field not realizing it was a live ball.
Thankfully another kid jumped on it before the opponent could recover at about the 25.
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Post by blockandtackle on Jun 7, 2024 21:40:14 GMT -6
Once had a player last name Stack. Outstanding RB but dumb as soup. Since we didn't two-platoon he had to practice somewhere on defense so that was FS. Put him as far away from ball as possible so he could do least damage if he ever had to play. To wit: During two-a-days when installing 70 Stack Blitz while he was in he asks, "Coach - does that mean I blitz?" Reminds me of when I had a Mike linebacker named "Will", and a Will linebacker named "Sam". My Sam linebacker was luckily named Brian. Had a Mike LB named “Will” once, He got confused in a game when our DC was screaming “Will, move over!” at our misaligned WLB. Kid was a stud athlete (who didn’t lift) but he had a hard time processing things. If he had to do any thinking at all on the field, he’d just freeze. He randomly moved way out to his right when the ball was snapped and let the QB go untouched right through his gap. |
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Post by blb on Jun 12, 2024 10:07:11 GMT -6
This didn't happen on game field but is kind of funny.
Once had a kid who was great athlete - 6-4, 190, all-conference in three sports (including as QB and FS).
Later was a D-III NCAA Track All-American in three events.
Also an outstanding Punter.
One day during Pre-Season I was a little late getting out to practice field for whatever reason and Specialties had already begun.
As I was walking out I could see him hitting some bombs - high, tight, spirals.
I went over to where he was punting and his next two or three were out-and-out shanks.
I said "Todd, I saw you hitting nothing but zoomers on my way out here. What's wrong?"
He said, "Coach, it makes me nervous when you watch me."
I told him "Well, I want you to know I plan to be at all nine games!"
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Post by coachcb on Jun 17, 2024 13:39:41 GMT -6
We played a JV game on a Tuesday against a team. They ran Speed Option against us, our DE popped the QB, forced a fumble and we recovered. The officials tossed a flag, called it "roughing the passer" and our sidelines erupted. We argued our point, they picked up the flag and called it "unnecessary roughness" instead..
Friday night, we're playing the same team's varsity, with the same officiating crew and I'm up in the box. They run Speed Option again, we tattoo the QB and another flag goes up. I lean out the window and yell "It's not friggin roughing the passer!!!". The crew gets together, picks up one flag, tosses another and nails us with "unsportsmanlike conduct" because I was hollering out from the box.
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Post by blb on Jun 17, 2024 13:52:47 GMT -6
We played a JV game on a Tuesday against a team. They ran Speed Option against us, our DE popped the QB, forced a fumble and we recovered. The officials tossed a flag, called it "roughing the passer" and our sidelines erupted. We argued our point, they picked up the flag and called it "unnecessary roughness" instead.. Friday night, we're playing the same team's varsity, with the same officiating crew and I'm up in the box. They run Speed Option again, we tattoo the QB and another flag goes up. I lean out the window and yell "It's not friggin roughing the passer!!!". The crew gets together, picks up one flag, tosses another and nails us with "unsportsmanlike conduct" because I was hollering out from the box. To quote the great Ron White: "You can't fix stupid." |
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Post by silkyice on Jun 17, 2024 14:11:02 GMT -6
We played a JV game on a Tuesday against a team. They ran Speed Option against us, our DE popped the QB, forced a fumble and we recovered. The officials tossed a flag, called it "roughing the passer" and our sidelines erupted. We argued our point, they picked up the flag and called it "unnecessary roughness" instead.. Friday night, we're playing the same team's varsity, with the same officiating crew and I'm up in the box. They run Speed Option again, we tattoo the QB and another flag goes up. I lean out the window and yell "It's not friggin roughing the passer!!!". The crew gets together, picks up one flag, tosses another and nails us with "unsportsmanlike conduct" because I was hollering out from the box. I remember you telling us that story. That is absolutely absurd. They should have at least called it "targeting". Side note: my DC from a long time ago said there was no such thing as unnecessary roughness. I was like, "what?" and argued with him. He said, oh, I don't mean it shouldn't be a penalty. I just mean it wasn't unnecessary. The penalty should be called "necessary roughness". Hahahahaha. |
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Post by bobgoodman on Jun 17, 2024 18:29:10 GMT -6
We played a JV game on a Tuesday against a team. They ran Speed Option against us, our DE popped the QB, forced a fumble and we recovered. The officials tossed a flag, called it "roughing the passer" and our sidelines erupted. We argued our point, they picked up the flag and called it "unnecessary roughness" instead.. Friday night, we're playing the same team's varsity, with the same officiating crew and I'm up in the box. They run Speed Option again, we tattoo the QB and another flag goes up. I lean out the window and yell "It's not friggin roughing the passer!!!". The crew gets together, picks up one flag, tosses another and nails us with "unsportsmanlike conduct" because I was hollering out from the box. I remember you telling us that story. That is absolutely absurd. They should have at least called it "targeting". Side note: my DC from a long time ago said there was no such thing as unnecessary roughness. I was like, "what?" and argued with him. He said, oh, I don't mean it shouldn't be a penalty. I just mean it wasn't unnecessary. The penalty should be called "necessary roughness". Hahahahaha. The way the UR rule is written by Fed, it's unnecessary contact that's prone to lead to roughness. That is, it's not the contact itself that's rough, but that it might provoke retaliatory roughness, I guess. |
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Post by silkyice on Jun 18, 2024 6:53:32 GMT -6
I remember you telling us that story. That is absolutely absurd. They should have at least called it "targeting". Side note: my DC from a long time ago said there was no such thing as unnecessary roughness. I was like, "what?" and argued with him. He said, oh, I don't mean it shouldn't be a penalty. I just mean it wasn't unnecessary. The penalty should be called "necessary roughness". Hahahahaha. The way the UR rule is written by Fed, it's unnecessary contact that's prone to lead to roughness. That is, it's not the contact itself that's rough, but that it might provoke retaliatory roughness, I guess. I think you missed the point of my old DC. |
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Post by coachcb on Jun 18, 2024 8:22:45 GMT -6
We played a JV game on a Tuesday against a team. They ran Speed Option against us, our DE popped the QB, forced a fumble and we recovered. The officials tossed a flag, called it "roughing the passer" and our sidelines erupted. We argued our point, they picked up the flag and called it "unnecessary roughness" instead.. Friday night, we're playing the same team's varsity, with the same officiating crew and I'm up in the box. They run Speed Option again, we tattoo the QB and another flag goes up. I lean out the window and yell "It's not friggin roughing the passer!!!". The crew gets together, picks up one flag, tosses another and nails us with "unsportsmanlike conduct" because I was hollering out from the box. I remember you telling us that story. That is absolutely absurd. They should have at least called it "targeting". Side note: my DC from a long time ago said there was no such thing as unnecessary roughness. I was like, "what?" and argued with him. He said, oh, I don't mean it shouldn't be a penalty. I just mean it wasn't unnecessary. The penalty should be called "necessary roughness". Hahahahaha. I could see a targeting or unnecessary roughness call if the DE led with his helmet or just threw a shoulder into the QB. Or if the QB had just pitched the ball and was defenseless. But, it was a clean tackle and the QB was running right at the friggin DE. Our guy made contact as the QB was trying to attempt a (very) late pitch. But, the QB still had possession of the ball as he was tackled. |
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Post by silkyice on Jun 18, 2024 9:18:51 GMT -6
I remember you telling us that story. That is absolutely absurd. They should have at least called it "targeting". Side note: my DC from a long time ago said there was no such thing as unnecessary roughness. I was like, "what?" and argued with him. He said, oh, I don't mean it shouldn't be a penalty. I just mean it wasn't unnecessary. The penalty should be called "necessary roughness". Hahahahaha. I could see a targeting or unnecessary roughness call if the DE led with his helmet or just threw a shoulder into the QB. Or if the QB had just pitched the ball and was defenseless. But, it was a clean tackle and the QB was running right at the friggin DE. Our guy made contact as the QB was trying to attempt a (very) late pitch. But, the QB still had possession of the ball as he was tackled. Oh, I understand. I just meant to cover their bad call, they would just say "targeting". It would be BS, but at least that would "explain" the bad call. |
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Post by bobgoodman on Jun 18, 2024 9:24:18 GMT -6
The way the UR rule is written by Fed, it's unnecessary contact that's prone to lead to roughness. That is, it's not the contact itself that's rough, but that it might provoke retaliatory roughness, I guess. I think you missed the point of my old DC. I didn't miss it, I ignored it. |
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Post by knightfan64 on Jun 19, 2024 7:29:11 GMT -6
Y'all gotta learn to keep your blitzes simple! Had a kid who was a fantastic football player but struggled intellectually. DC started naming the blitzes he needed to go as "Johnny Fire". So Johnny would look down on the card and see that he was blitzing. I had one jv kid one time who couldn't tell right from left. Strong and quick as a cat. Had to put him at Noseguard because he literally couldn't do anything else. Well kid got an infection on his forearm in preseason and had to keep it wrapped up with a bandage and a sleeve the rest of the year. So instead of strong right/strong left, my mike would literally tell him "good arm" or "bad arm" for which way he needed to slant.
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Post by blb on Jun 23, 2024 11:14:09 GMT -6
Didn't "see" this, just heard it.
Guy I went to college with got a job as Head basketball coach that included being Asst. JV football coach.
The Head JV coach he was working with was a long-time assistant at the school who had played college football.
First day of practice Head guy blows whistle, calls all the eager young Sophomores up, and says,
"You see that tree over there? Take a lap around it!"
So they take off running and come back huffing and puffing.
Head guy says, "You see that tree over there (different tree-direction)? Take a lap around it!"
So the kids do, huffing and puffing and dragging.
When they all get back, he says "Okay - three lines, two balls - three lines two balls!"
He turns to my acquaintance and says, "What can you do with three lines and two balls?"
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Post by coachwoodall on Jun 23, 2024 13:44:15 GMT -6
Didn't "see" this, just heard it. Guy I went to college with got a job as Head basketball coach that included being Asst. JV football coach. The Head JV coach he was working with was a long-time assistant at the school who had played college football. First day of practice Head guy blows whistle, calls all the eager young Sophomores up, and says, "You see that tree over there? Take a lap around it!" So they take off running and come back huffing and puffing. Head guy says, "You see that tree over there (different tree-direction)? Take a lap around it!" So the kids do, huffing and puffing and dragging. When they all get back, he says "Okay - three lines, two balls - three lines two balls!" He turns to my acquaintance and says, "What can you do with three lines and two balls?" Reminds me of my 3rd grade youth coach..... Start of the first practice, we all circle up and do cals for about 20 minutes followed by a lap around the field. When we return we circle up on the coach huffing and puffing with our hands on our knees, and he asks, "Who needs a break?" Of course every hand goes up. "You see that telephone pole over there? Go run around that pole and come back here; that's a break" We all ran down and back, and returned huffing and puffing even more. "From now on when you need a break, that is what you are going to do." For the rest of my life, 'taking a break' was not something I looked forward to doing. |
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Post by bignose on Jun 23, 2024 16:54:21 GMT -6
Years ago we were participating in a preseason 8 way scrimmage at a school in a nearby large urban area.
The other teams are running the ubiquitous Spread Offenses, we are running our Double Tight, Double Wing.
We lined up in an "End Over" set, and the very inexperienced linesman standing directly in front of me throws a flag and blows the play dead.
I asked him what was the flag for.
His reply: "Illegal formation, you don't have enough men on this side of the center!"
Rather than blow a gasket, I asked him to bring the "White Hat" over, an official who as old and crusty as I was.
"Could you explain to your young charge that we were lined up in an "Unbalanced line" and that it is totally legal?"
He chuckled and took the young official aside to explain the rule to him.
On the next play, the young ref takes his position, and said over his shoulder: "Well we don't see an offense like that around here!"
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Post by 44dlcoach on Jun 25, 2024 10:57:28 GMT -6
Sadly we had a ref mess up an unbalanced line in a regional championship game (3rd round of the playoffs).
Our kids recognized our oppenent in unbalanced and didn't cover the TE, our opponent threw to him downfield for a 3rd Down conversion.
When our head coach asked the ref he said that because there was a player in the backfield between the split end and the covered tight end, the covered player was eligible.
Thankfully we were able to get the white hat over, once he heard the explanation he pulled his guy off to the side, talked to him one on one for a few minutes, and threw the flag. Of course the opposing fans went berserk when that happened haha.
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Post by olcoach53 on Jun 25, 2024 12:07:52 GMT -6
Didn't "see" this, just heard it. Guy I went to college with got a job as Head basketball coach that included being Asst. JV football coach. The Head JV coach he was working with was a long-time assistant at the school who had played college football. First day of practice Head guy blows whistle, calls all the eager young Sophomores up, and says, "You see that tree over there? Take a lap around it!" So they take off running and come back huffing and puffing. Head guy says, "You see that tree over there (different tree-direction)? Take a lap around it!" So the kids do, huffing and puffing and dragging. When they all get back, he says "Okay - three lines, two balls - three lines two balls!" He turns to my acquaintance and says, "What can you do with three lines and two balls?" I am lost... |
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Post by blb on Jun 25, 2024 13:25:45 GMT -6
Didn't "see" this, just heard it. Guy I went to college with got a job as Head basketball coach that included being Asst. JV football coach. The Head JV coach he was working with was a long-time assistant at the school who had played college football. First day of practice Head guy blows whistle, calls all the eager young Sophomores up, and says, "You see that tree over there? Take a lap around it!" So they take off running and come back huffing and puffing. Head guy says, "You see that tree over there (different tree-direction)? Take a lap around it!" So the kids do, huffing and puffing and dragging. When they all get back, he says "Okay - three lines, two balls - three lines two balls!" He turns to my acquaintance and says, "What can you do with three lines and two balls?" I am lost... So - you wouldn't know what to do on the first day of JV football practice with "Three lines, two balls" either? |
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Post by silkyice on Jun 26, 2024 12:35:58 GMT -6
Didn't "see" this, just heard it. Guy I went to college with got a job as Head basketball coach that included being Asst. JV football coach. The Head JV coach he was working with was a long-time assistant at the school who had played college football. First day of practice Head guy blows whistle, calls all the eager young Sophomores up, and says, "You see that tree over there? Take a lap around it!" So they take off running and come back huffing and puffing. Head guy says, "You see that tree over there (different tree-direction)? Take a lap around it!" So the kids do, huffing and puffing and dragging. When they all get back, he says "Okay - three lines, two balls - three lines two balls!" He turns to my acquaintance and says, "What can you do with three lines and two balls?" I am lost... I think that is the point. The coach was lost also. For context, 3 lines and two balls is a basketball drill. |
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Post by blb on Jun 27, 2024 10:52:14 GMT -6
Our opponents had the ball on their 40-yard line with 5 seconds on the clock before halftime.
Their QB dropped back (clock should have started, but never did).
Hit their Flanker on a Curl.
He Zig-Zagged through couple broken tackles until we get him down around our 10.
Officials huddled up, white hat came over and told me they were going to take four seconds off the clock (leaving opponents enough time to run another play).
I told him he just awarded that young man the world-record in the 40-yard dash while wearing full equipment and not even running a straight line.
And of course that didn't include the time it took QB to drop back or for ball to be in air before caught.
Fortunately we stopped their next play and won the game.
Did I mention we were playing on the road?
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