Comments on: DAMN RULEMONKEYS THREATEN TO KILL OUR BELOVED A-11

By: GTSteve

GTSteve — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:02:18 +0000

I’m imagining Mike Leach seeing this and getting very giddy.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:41:57 +0000

I did coach for four years of undergrad and one after college on a volunteer basis at high schools and did film breakdown at a college. After I got married I couldn’t do it for free anymore. I worked for a while and am now in law school. The bug still hits hard occassionally.

I ran a singlewing with a little league team I had. No center QB exchange and no middleman between smart QB and fast fast RB’s I had. Worked like a charm.

By: Henry R. Saucington

Henry R. Saucington — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:43:58 +0000

#15: Dude, Stephen. You just cited Homer Smith /and/ correctly identified Florida’s offense as being single-wing-based. And you ALSO mentioned the X-Men.

So… the /first/ two points above lead me to ask you: d’you coach? Because the /third/ point compels me, with great sadness, to inform you that if the answer’s yes, you may give me a serious run for my money as the geekiest football coach alive. Sniff. I thought for sure my title was secure.

By: tOSU_radar

tOSU_radar — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:41:20 +0000

That was some awesome cock rock in the background! My mullet just grew back!!

By: The Song of Hiawatha Francisco

The Song of Hiawatha Francisco — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:11:18 +0000

@7: You owe Tony Randall fifty cents. Nicely done.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:50:54 +0000

#12, I think you see elements of it in WVU’s offense. The most incredible thing about the spread it how different incarnations exhibit different parts of football evolution. It’s like X Men hit a whiteboard. This baby spread mutant has scales, this one heals incredibly fast. Usually I think of

WVU – Veer/Split T/Wishbone theory spread; get good blocking lanes (Watching RichRod would cause me to geek out and/or cry two time nightly, amazingly creative)

Wake West coast offense, short passing game

Florida – Single wing

Texas Tech – Run and Shoot

Nevada – singleback/I theory

The spread is here to stay. Homer Smith wrote that to stop an offense, a defense needs 17 men: 8 in the box and 9 in the passing zones. Spreading the field is the first offense to truly force the defense to defend every threat on every play. I’ll go ahead and blaspheme, if the Bear was alive, Steed Lobotzke would be his OC and he’d be running the spread.

By: SC_Gator

SC_Gator — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:50:35 +0000

Now that was fun to watch, it’s like they spread the spread.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:42:57 +0000

I love it! Can’t blitz it because the ball is gone too quick. Inelgible recievers go out on routes to 3 yards downfield to look elgible without getting the penalty.

I think single wing coaches would approve. That entire playbook is about creating unusually favorable blocking angles.

You need two down linemen. Five underneath coverage, four deep. Play almost exclusively zone and see if their QB has the arm to make the throws he has to. Maybe rotating coverage to bring pressure towards the action would help . . .

By: blon57

blon57 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:36:56 +0000

I still love the manliness of Wilkinson’s Split T. Everything comes back around eventually. Some coach will read Bud’s book, rename the offense and everyone will think that he is a genius.

By: Flatlander

Flatlander — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:31:04 +0000

Reminds me of every game played in my front yard until I was about, oh, nine years old. Lots of fun. Would be even more fun if the NCAA would allow us pave the end zones and park a station wagon near the pylons.

By: Ryno

Ryno — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:30:17 +0000

If this offense was made commonplace, methinks you’d sell a few more of your “Possession Receiver” t-shirts Swindle

By: WhiteSpeedReceiver

WhiteSpeedReceiver — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:07:30 +0000

#5-

Joe Lee Dunn grins and plots his return to prominence with the 5-1-5.

By: MACAttack

MACAttack — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:58:29 +0000

wouldn’t this almost make american football more like european football in that defenses would have to be created to shut down all 11 players?

By: intellidouche

intellidouche — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:57:49 +0000

What is hamburger?

Chopped ham?

No. It’s chopped steak.

And what goes better on steak than A-11.

By: dudis41

dudis41 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:48:26 +0000

Now I’m no schematical football genius, but wouldn’t such an offense be next to impossible to properly officiate, considering that the line judge may only have all of one second to determine who is and is not eligible, without the help of the numbering system?