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As we prepared for learn Coach “Q” and I picked up 8-9 kids in coaches SUV. We picked up kids from ramshackle apartments and falling down shacks. Don knew the name of every mom dad uncle aunt grandma and grandpa caring for these kids. Some we didntl even pick up from homes they were just walking down the street. Every player had a smile on his face and every place we stopped people knew Coach Q and his South Baton Rouge Jaguars.  As each player got into the SUV they looked me in the eyes shook my hand and talked to me with a series of endless questions. They treated each other the coaches and even the visitors with confidence and consider during the 2 days we worked together.  I’m not sure I’ve ever heard more “please” and “thank yous” in a 2 day period in my life. To make a long story short this was an extremely come up disciplined and well-coached group of young men. They were extremely coachable literally standing on edge and elbowing closer so they could hear every evince. On day 2 I found they had retained every word from day 1 and were probably the most enthusiastic and hard working kids I’ve ever been around. At the end of the clinic/camp at least 15 of the kids came up to me and told me thanks for coming and I even got a few sweaty hugs from 3-4 others. These kids reminded me so much of the inner-city kids I used to instruct 6-11 years ago. While youth football and college football are worlds apart in many ways there certainly are some similarities. How many of you are following what Paul Johnson is doing at Georgia Tech this year? Many “experts” said Johnson’s Flexbone option attack would never work at the big DI level. Never object that Johnson was hugely successful with this attack at Georgia Southern winning two Division IAA National Championships and going 62-10 in six seasons there. Never mind that Johnson then went to Navy and using the very same offense guided Navy to its first winning season in 14 years. His teams went 45-29 at Navy which is a miracle turnaround compared to the 72-148 record compiled by his 4 predecessors. Mind you Navy has some serious personnel constraints due  to their Military Academy status and the fact the kids undergo to meet very high academic and engrave standards as well as serve 4 years in the Service once their college playing days are over. Oh yeah by the way we are at war. In Johnson first season at Georgia Tech his team is on the cusp of winning an ACC Title and is at 9-3. He is doing it with the claim same offense he ran at Southern and Navy the option. He is doing this in his very first season with a aggroup that was recruited to compete a completely different offense. His quarterback is not an option quarterback his linemen aren’t option linemen. Heck his starting left offensive tackle started the season as a slot back and has never played the line at any level of football even in his Pee Wee days. Georgia Tech also has very high admission standards that other schools aren’t constrained with. Did any of you see Tech just blow out Miami and all the top talent the Hurricanes had amassed on defense or how about the 45 points they put on SEC cater Georgia last week? What Johnson has done is nothing short of amazing. But the challenge is why is he so successful and how can I use that information to my favor when I’m coaching youth football? One huge reason his teams are so successful no matter where he goes is;  Johnson runs a system no one else runs anymore. Teams just aren’t used to defending the option. Miami and Georgia both teams loaded with High School All-Americans and Rivals top 10 Recruiting classes looked completely lost against Johnson’s offense. These college defenses are used to seeing the move offense or versions of it nearly every week. The defensive schemes and techniques they use to shut drink the spread teams are much different than what you use to effectively play a well executing option aggroup. In fact some of the read and react concepts a 3 technique defensive tackle uses to defend the option are 100% contrary to what this player has learned and practiced for in the last 9 months. So you get one week to develop that defensive tackle to “forget” what he has learned the previous 9 months and to act perfectly to his option reads in split second real measure. Oh yeah lets not drop that you also have to develop your force and alley defenders as come up and remember Tech does throw a descent play challenge pass when you least evaluate it as well. That is why you see Georgia Tech going on drives where they get plays of 2 yards. 5. 8. -1. 8. 3,2,2,7. 2. 50. The defense just has a heck of a time staying perfect with their reads being done in change integrity seconds using techniques and schemes they use for just 1 week per year. Just one wrong construe and go it’s a huge gain or 6 points. What does this mean to the local youth football instruct? Should you remove your current offense and sell out to an option attack? I’m not sure. I coached Nebraska style “I” option football for 7 years at the youth aim. We did farily come up for 4 of those 7 seasons winning 2 unify Titles. But when I didn’t undergo a cause to be perceived and athletic play and a difference maker at Tailback we struggled ( really need to have 2 good Quarterbacks in that offense). I just couldn’t ascertain on having that type of talent every year when I coached non-select teams.  I also didn’t want to practice 5 nights a week anymore we wanted to go to a 3 nights a week format. What Johnson’s offense means to you is you should consider running something that you have the talent and measure for as well as something that is different than what everyone else in your league is running. It means you should ameliorate a handful or complementary series based football plays that put the defense in contrast. It means you don’t run 40-60 plays in some disjointed playbook. These are some of the main reasons we run the Single Wing offense with our youth football teams. Less than 3% of youth football teams are running this offense. Your opponents just are not used to defending this attack and some of the unique series or blocking schemes we use like the full spin half spin wedge jet traps etc Most youth football teams have lots of “I”. Pro. Spread. “Multiple” and change surface Wishbone or Double go teams but how many hit go teams do you see? Very very few. It’s a series based offense based on putting  a defense in conflict and execution it isn’t an offense that relies on great talent making huge plays. So all the “experts” and naysayers undergo been proven do by so far about Paul Johnson. That “%$3&’ won’t work in big time DI football they said. You don’t see the pros run it they said. Same goes for the hit go we are seeing it with more and more High School teams as come up as of cover Florida and Mississippi in the SEC and of course now in the NFL with the Dolphins and Ravens. Hopefully the Single go won’t get too popular because how effective can you really be running what everyone else is running unless you have the very best players? How much fun would that be? It would all be about recruiting or drafting players and very little to do with coaching. The Winning Youth Football Clinics are from 9am-3pm and consider a box eat. If you prepay the $89 fee you get an updated write of the book “Winning Youth Football a Step by Step intend” on CDROM. This includes all the updates as come up as the new “Burst” series. You also get a free write of any DVD we offer. These are mailed to you the same day that you reserve your seat at the clinic. The Book and DVDs total value  is $75 so you get the clinic basically for $14. This will be up on the web site with the ability to acquire via credit card in the next 2 weeks or by phone right now. The clinic sites are usually an Embassy Suites or Homewood Suites and ordain be updated. You ordain be e-mailed with the location at least 30 days prior to the clinic. So if you are near any of these sites you may want to let your family know about it for Christmas. I have coached teams this late into the year and it is quite a contend more so if you are coaching north of the Mason-Dixon and undergo to deal with the cold defy. But regardless of weather anyone practicing this late in the toughen has to deal with player fatigue. This is both physical and mental degenerate with the more dangerous culprit being mental fatigue. While we all get caught up in the excite of packing up and going to far away places and playing teams from other areas of the country we know nothing about many youth football players just get worn out at this time of year. For many of us we have been practicing for 4+ months and for most teams that undergo made it this far you have won some emotionally draining games. Heck I change surface heard from one coach whose aggroup was on the path for a Pop Warner National Title that his kids were “fried” after winning their first 12 games. He wasn’t sure how he was going to keep them up for 4 more games if they made it to the title bet. It’s time to add back in 10 minutes of “bet time” back into your practices at the end. Games desire deer hunter towel game slam dunk and hunt chases from the book are great and keep the kids conditioning up without “running” them. alter the kids up a bit with games like this as well as “situational” games. We desire to set up a PAT kick. If the kicker makes it practice is over if not we go another 10 minutes of running base plays on air or covering kicks. You can do the same on passing drills if X completes 10 passes in a row the kids get a water break and the coaches run a lap. Remember to have fun that is the ultimate end goal. If you are traveling make sure to plan several fun team excursions as well as some drink time. We enjoyed the sand football games almost as much as the games themselves. Many of the kids ordain remember the align trips and pool parties as much as the games it also gives them a bit of a respite from the pressure of the big fanfare tournament games and the monster teams you usually draw when playing in unlimted charge football. You want your kids going into these games with a passion comfort in their hearts for the game of football. You be them going in with smiles on their faces not throwing up in the parking lot or worse yet. “mailing it in”. If you are still playing at this time of year msure to keep a close eye on your teams beat and make the necessary adjustments so they end out strong. As youth football coaches what can we learn from Coach Leach? First let’s look for a moment at Coach remove’s background. With the exception of one year of sitting on the bench of his High School football team as a Junior he never played organized football. He got his Bachelors at BYU and then his Law Degree from Pepperdine. At age 25 married with his second child on the way he decides he wants to be a College Football instruct. Yeah right. After stops at College of the Desert. Cal Poly. Iowa Wesleyan. Valdosta express. Finland and Kentucky he is now the head coach of  Texas Tech. Not bad for a self described “Christian with serious obedience issues”. He seems to look at things from a slightly different prespective maybe even a sort of  an “outsiders” viewpoint. Mike Leach saw when he came to Texas Tech that there was no way he would ever be able to match up with Texas. Oklahoma. A&M and the big boys by doing more of what they were doing. He was always going to have to settle for the second and third tier players. He focused on bringing in fast smart kids that were maybe a bit undersized or odd shaped kids that maybe didn’t be like football players. Certainly former bag of bones quarterback Kliff Kingsbury fit that mold. He looked like he would be weights in his shoes to direct him down when the stiff winds of West Texas blew around Lubbock. Listed at 175 pounds this weight number was about as accurate as the charge listed on a 45 year old womans drivers license. Tech running back Taurean Henderson looked more like a skinny Munchkin from the Wizard of Oz with really bad hair than a Big 12 Running Back. He committed to throwing the roll with just a few concepts. All Curl. 4 Verticals. Y-Stick. alter. Bubble Screens and Mesh. The laminated play card for his play had just 26 offensive plays on it for the Texas Game. instruct Leach does NOT have a huge play card filled with hundreds of plays and down and distance material he has a simple piece of non laminated cover usually folded up into fourths like some kind of crumpled up cheat sheet with about 30 plays on it. If a compete works he writes an O next to it and runs it again if it fails he writes an X next to it and doesn’t. In the Texas bet. All Curl must undergo had an O next to it because he threw it least 5 times. When coaching youth football does this mean you should act to throwing the ball 60 times a game and widening your splits to 6-9 feet with your football team? No not at all. In youth football we don’t get to practice 6 days a week nearly year round or cut anyone (most teams).  Texas Tech doesn’t have to mind about getting every player into the game regardless of bet circumstances or have squad sizes of 25 instead of 150. Your kids aren’t going to be able to widen splits out to 9 feet when you are starting an unathletic future computer nerd at one offensive line spot and the future tuba player of the marching band at another.  Those kind of kids can’t fill a 2 foot gap let alone a 6-9 pay gap. Most youth football teams aren’t going to have 2-3 good well trainied backup quarterbacks waiting in the wings for when the starter gets hurt or is egest. Even your best quarterback attending every QB camp known to man isn’t going to throw to a streaking wideout and hit him with pinpoint accuracy on the outside tip of his sideline bring up on a 25 yard sideline streak route desire Tech consistently does ( impossible to argue). But what we youth football coaches can learn from Leach is to compete you don’t have the biggest and most athletic team in your league but you undergo to be different. You don’t have to have 60 football plays in your playbook but what you do need are complementary plays that you execute to absolute perfection. That’s why my teams run the Single Wing offense and why we have a limited number of 100% complementery play series we ameliorate every season. A very inexpensive but come up accepted award is a Certificate in a close in. There are plenty of free sites on the internet where you can download a award Award Template and put your own text in. I like to Insert a Team photo electronically into the template and then personalize the award to the player.  We have awards for: Most Valuable Player. Most Valuable Offensive Player. Most Valuable approve.  Most Improved Defensive End. Most Valuable Utility Player. Hustle Award. Spirit Award etc etc. You have to get a little creative there. We buy the frames at Walmart for $2 each or you can change surface just create them if you are trying to save a few bucks. We give out special “Complete Player” awards to the top 3 academic performers of each team. As stated in my book “Winning Youth Football a Step-by-Step Plan” we undergo a complete “Academic Accountability” program that encourages and requires academic effort and achievement from each of our players.  Our teams compete against each other on this as come up as individually. These awards are the best and most coveted in our program. In the past we have done very alter team jackets this year we did a “Fathead” type allocate. We had a professional photographer go in and injure action shots during our games. She does it for free but has a web site where the photos are posted and the parents are then given the chance to buy the photos. The top 3 Academic Performers on each team won an action shot of themselves blown up into a 5 foot “Fathead” type wall sticky of themselves. To say these awards were a huge success would be a HUGE understatement. During team we talked about our goals for the week and our goals for the individual members of our team. The players know that the end result won’t be known for 20+ years. Hopefully by then the seeds we had planted during this season will have sprouted and matured.  We let them experience these are seeds of persistence hard work teamwork sacrifice accepting criticism accepting guidance humility compassion.  respect and reliability that will help each player be exceed sons husbands fathers and providers. While youth football isn’t a cure all for all of societies ills for many kids it is a very important part of their development. As an employer. I can always tell if a person has played competitive sports or not. The competitive sports player is often innately more competitive they accept coaching better they bring home the bacon harder get flustered less work better with others and overcome obstacles better than their video game playing counterparts. While that first day of the week learn may be a bit fun and reflective we get back into “football mode” the measure half of that practice. If the parents want to do something special this is the learn they do it at. Later in the week at that  very last learn we get back drink to “business”. In addition to our regularly scheduled individual development periods we would be repping on-air team offense team defense and special teams. At this point in the season you ordain see many youth football teams pulling out all the stops. This means you need to spend some time on aligning and alerting your aggroup about special formations like the Swinging Gate/Lonesome Polecat or severely unbalanced sets. We also see things like protect kick returns starburst impel returns or throwback kick returns at this time of year. Another thing we often see in this measure game are “trick” plays desire QB throwbacks or even illegal plays like the “wrong roll” play. One way to prepare your youth football team for these situations is to set up your defense or special teams against a “observe” team of your coaches and remaining players. Align everyone up in positions and have everyone take a knee. address the play and walk your scout team through the play as the defense observes. Then jog your observe aggroup through each of the trick football plays you need to prepare against. Once you undergo demonstrated 4-5 of these football plays to your defense go approve and huddle up and run the plays live or to thud (not taking the ballcarrier to the ground). We always have the coaches at the skill positions here to give quality reps to the defense in a short amount of time. Well the advance was 14-14 in a very evenly matched youth football game as both teams were 7-1 coming into the game. The other team had the ball driving for what appeared to be the go ahead score. After the ball had placed down and the whistle had sounded for the ready to compete one of the players for the other team threw up his hands and started acting confused and was jogging to the sidelines the coaches for this team in the meanwhile were telling him to come off get off the field. In the meantime the roll was snapped to one of the remaining backs while the linemen stayed frozen in their tracks. Well our kids weren’t fooled we had practiced this very same play in our last football practice of the toughen. Our most aggressive linebacker crushed the ball carrier in his tracks he fumbled and we recovered. The shock of having that play stuffed completely really caught this team off guard. We scored in 3 plays onside kicked and scored again right before the half to take what was a very close game and put it out of arrive. Our kids gained so much confidence from stopping that one compete. The kids knew they had been prepared well and seemed to just take over the bet after that compete. We also intercepted a QB throwback pass in this bet that was run back to the 3 yard lie just desire in learn. We went on to win 46-26. Age 12-13 lost 14-12 in heartbreaker. Driving for bring about score as time runs out at their 20 we lose possession. We went max slowdown and held the ball in the opening control for over 10 minutes getting bogged down at the opponnents 18 after a penalty put us in an unmakeable 4th and 14. We moved the roll very well and only punted once all game. We ran jet 28 to tie it up early on a 4th and 1 compete. We had other chances a successful fake punt a successful onsides kick and an 18 move go caught in the wide open for an apparent score dragged down from behind.  Rocket 47 change state for a TD schedule runs it inside for a small obtain etc. The Kids played hard we wedged very well but not quite enough to take the game. Same story this season with this team. They played hard but with only 1 offfensive play of over 30 yards with this aggroup all year long we had no desire roll threat after losing 3 of our top 4 scorers from the previous team. Very limited athleticism no size and just 1 striped player in our first year with a team in this age hold in the league. We had just four 13 year olds on this team and two them were first yeaar players. All in all very happy with the effort as every 12 year old said they were returning to play next season after the game was over. Age 10-11 won 38-6 in a game we led by three touchdowns at the end of the first quarter. Since this was nearly our measure bet it was a home game and we had the game well in hand we allowed 19 different players to carry the ball an all measure high for one game. This team has come together very well and is now 7-1 and without question the best team in the division. Unfortunately like the above example this aggroup was not scheduled to compete the division leader had we beaten them we would be in the semi finals and in my opinion probably won the league call. Not bad for a aggroup with just 6 players that had played youth football before and just 1 striped player.

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is the Online Newspaper "clipper" for Single Wing Football Coaches & Enthusiasts. Check here often for Single-Wing articles from all across the US and from around the world. - The Standish-Sterling football team has known for the past three years that the road to Ford Field goes through Menominee. The past two seasons they haven't gotten the chance to play the Maroons who won last year's Division 5 state title with a dominating squad that never allowed more than 10 points in a game. This year they do and while Menominee hasn't been quite as dominating they're still 11-0 defending state champions riding a 25-game win streak and appear to be playing their best football of the year."For the past two years we've talked about getting the chance to play them," said SSC coach Paul Walderzak. "We're looking at this as a great opportunity to play the state champs a team that is very very good again this year."We think we have a good shot. But we also know we have to play the best football we've played this year."Offensively the Panthers will have to account first and foremost with Upper Peninsula player of the year Matt Eisenzopf who has a reputation for being able to singlehandedly blow apart offensive game plans."He's tough quick and just flies to the ball," Walderzak said. "He doesn't waste any time thinking about what he's going to do."As a running back he runs the ball the same way. He has good speed and you really need to do a good job of wrapping him up."Eisenzopf lines up offensively with halfback Ethan Shaver another all-UP player that rushed for more than 1,200 yards. Adding to the challenge is the Maroons' a holdover from the era of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- the style of football played before the mid-'50s but seldom seen today. In the single wing the running backs receive a direct shotgun-style snap from the center and run pass hand-off spin or pitch the ball while the quarterback is more of a blocking back that lines up behind the tackle. While there are variations of the single wing that depend on deception. Walderzak said the Maroons play it with more emphasis on straight-up power."Their two backs are both very good athletes who can both run throw and catch the ball very well," Walderzak said. "They run a lot of power off tackle and traps and they throw it more than we thought they did. And they can give you a lot of different looks."While the state title squad was virtually unchallenged through 14 games this year's team has had a couple of close calls. Late in the year the Maroons held on for an 18-13 win over a 4-5 Marquette squad then trailed Marinette (Wisconsin) at halftime before winning 28-14. On the other hand. Menominee trounced Kingsford 35-0 in the fifth game of the year -- the same team that just ended NEMC co-champ Ogemaw Heights' season 51-12. Menominee has also outscored its two playoff foes 94-7. Still there is a reason the games get played on the field and imposing foe or not the Panthers are looking forward to taking their shot at the perennial power."We're in good spirits and excited," Walderzak said. "I have no doubt we'll give them our best."

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is the Online Newspaper "clipper" for Single Wing Football Coaches & Enthusiasts. Check here often for Single-Wing articles from all across the US and from around the world. - The Standish-Sterling football team has known for the past three years that the road to Ford Field goes through Menominee. The past two seasons they haven't gotten the chance to play the Maroons who won last year's Division 5 state title with a dominating squad that never allowed more than 10 points in a game. This year they do and while Menominee hasn't been quite as dominating they're still 11-0 defending state champions riding a 25-game win streak and appear to be playing their best football of the year."For the past two years we've talked about getting the chance to play them," said SSC coach Paul Walderzak. "We're looking at this as a great opportunity to play the state champs a team that is very very good again this year."We think we have a good shot. But we also know we have to play the best football we've played this year."Offensively the Panthers will have to account first and foremost with Upper Peninsula player of the year Matt Eisenzopf who has a reputation for being able to singlehandedly blow apart offensive game plans."He's tough quick and just flies to the ball," Walderzak said. "He doesn't waste any time thinking about what he's going to do."As a running back he runs the ball the same way. He has good speed and you really need to do a good job of wrapping him up."Eisenzopf lines up offensively with halfback Ethan Shaver another all-UP player that rushed for more than 1,200 yards. Adding to the challenge is the Maroons' a holdover from the era of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- the style of football played before the mid-'50s but seldom seen today. In the single wing the running backs receive a direct shotgun-style snap from the center and run pass hand-off spin or pitch the ball while the quarterback is more of a blocking back that lines up behind the tackle. While there are variations of the single wing that depend on deception. Walderzak said the Maroons play it with more emphasis on straight-up power."Their two backs are both very good athletes who can both run throw and catch the ball very well," Walderzak said. "They run a lot of power off tackle and traps and they throw it more than we thought they did. And they can give you a lot of different looks."While the state title squad was virtually unchallenged through 14 games this year's team has had a couple of close calls. Late in the year the Maroons held on for an 18-13 win over a 4-5 Marquette squad then trailed Marinette (Wisconsin) at halftime before winning 28-14. On the other hand. Menominee trounced Kingsford 35-0 in the fifth game of the year -- the same team that just ended NEMC co-champ Ogemaw Heights' season 51-12. Menominee has also outscored its two playoff foes 94-7. Still there is a reason the games get played on the field and imposing foe or not the Panthers are looking forward to taking their shot at the perennial power."We're in good spirits and excited," Walderzak said. "I have no doubt we'll give them our best."

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is the Online Newspaper "clipper" for Single Wing Football Coaches & Enthusiasts. Check here often for Single-Wing articles from all across the US and from around the world. - The Standish-Sterling football team has known for the past three years that the road to Ford Field goes through Menominee. The past two seasons they haven't gotten the chance to play the Maroons who won last year's Division 5 state title with a dominating squad that never allowed more than 10 points in a game. This year they do and while Menominee hasn't been quite as dominating they're still 11-0 defending state champions riding a 25-game win streak and appear to be playing their best football of the year."For the past two years we've talked about getting the chance to play them," said SSC coach Paul Walderzak. "We're looking at this as a great opportunity to play the state champs a team that is very very good again this year."We think we have a good shot. But we also know we have to play the best football we've played this year."Offensively the Panthers will have to account first and foremost with Upper Peninsula player of the year Matt Eisenzopf who has a reputation for being able to singlehandedly blow apart offensive game plans."He's tough quick and just flies to the ball," Walderzak said. "He doesn't waste any time thinking about what he's going to do."As a running back he runs the ball the same way. He has good speed and you really need to do a good job of wrapping him up."Eisenzopf lines up offensively with halfback Ethan Shaver another all-UP player that rushed for more than 1,200 yards. Adding to the challenge is the Maroons' a holdover from the era of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- the style of football played before the mid-'50s but seldom seen today. In the single wing the running backs receive a direct shotgun-style snap from the center and run pass hand-off spin or pitch the ball while the quarterback is more of a blocking back that lines up behind the tackle. While there are variations of the single wing that depend on deception. Walderzak said the Maroons play it with more emphasis on straight-up power."Their two backs are both very good athletes who can both run throw and catch the ball very well," Walderzak said. "They run a lot of power off tackle and traps and they throw it more than we thought they did. And they can give you a lot of different looks."While the state title squad was virtually unchallenged through 14 games this year's team has had a couple of close calls. Late in the year the Maroons held on for an 18-13 win over a 4-5 Marquette squad then trailed Marinette (Wisconsin) at halftime before winning 28-14. On the other hand. Menominee trounced Kingsford 35-0 in the fifth game of the year -- the same team that just ended NEMC co-champ Ogemaw Heights' season 51-12. Menominee has also outscored its two playoff foes 94-7. Still there is a reason the games get played on the field and imposing foe or not the Panthers are looking forward to taking their shot at the perennial power."We're in good spirits and excited," Walderzak said. "I have no doubt we'll give them our best."

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Lancers clean up in styleLondonderry 40. Dover 21By PETER LEBLANC. Telegraph CorrespondentDOVER – Londonderry instruct Tom Sawyer the old dog of Division I football coaches had no interest in new tricks Friday at Dunaway Field. His Lancers showcased his – dare we call it – outdated single-wing offense in what proved to be a 40-21 tournament tune-up against Division II Dover High School."I started with the single wing way back in 1980," said Sawyer who plans on retiring after the season. "And. I'm going out with the single wing. We have the right guys in the backfield."That backfield includes running back Alex Theodhosi who has now rushed for 1,669 yards this season. Theodhosi scored three touchdowns with 168 yards on the ground against a Green Wave defense that was simply overmatched by the bigger Lancers (5-3 in Division I). Fourth-seeded Londonderry will await the Division I pairings with Nashua South and Pinkerton Academy determining the No. 1 seed with their 2 p m game this afternoon. Both coaches hoped to escape without any injuries or bad habits in a game that meant nothing in the standings."We looked at it as a game that we needed to get some work done," Dover coach Ken Osbon said. "I told the kids 'We're going to try to win this game but we're going to get some work in.'"Two seconds after this game we were telling the kids to dial it in for Bishop Guertin."Dover has earned the third seed in Division II and will head to Nashua to play No. 2 Bishop Guertin while No. 1 Exeter awaits Saturday's results for its first-round opponent. Theodhosi meanwhile had a rough week as he was hobbled by a bruised heel that kept him out of practice. Then during a game-opening 11-yard run he bit a small piece of his tongue off that kept him out until midway through the first quarter. As Sawyer said though he has personnel beyond his star approve to get the job done illustrated by Kyle Connors (two rushes. 103 yards two TDs) scampering 24 yards for Londonderry's first touchdown just four plays into the game while Theodhosi tended his injury. While athletic quarterback Ryan Griffin (just one throw for 10 yards) didn't need to show any passing prowess he was key in the single wing formation keeping Dover off balance and rushing for a fourth-quarter touchdown and 91 yards himself. Griffin also caught a pass from Craig Enos lining up as a wideout and hauling in a tight 16-yard strike down the left break in the second quarter."He can do it all," Sawyer said. "I told him when we got him back from New Hampton – he said 'coach are you going to use me at tight end?' and I told him you're going to go where the action is."With the Connors. Griffin. Theodhosi trifecta combining for 362 rushing yards Friday that old single-wing isn't looking so bad.

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is the Online Newspaper "clipper" for Single Wing Football Coaches & Enthusiasts. Check here often for Single-Wing articles from all across the US and from around the world. I coached a group of 5th graders in Birmingham. Alabama this year. After using the Reed based single wing a bring together of years ago this year I got all of cram and put it in. My aggroup had a 8-2 preserve and won our unify championship. We scored the most points in the league allowed the least and dominated time of possession. I don't consider myself a particularly good coach so I give all the ascribe for this year's success to the great coaches at the who helped me out tremendeously. What I learned This Year:1) The single wing absolutely eats up the clock. The biggest cerebrate our defense was good was because they didn't have to be on the handle much.2)16 power the base play of the single wing will over the cover of a bet absolutely wear a defense out. Even when we struggled with it early in games it ALWAYS worked late. In a bring together of tight games we played I was having affect with my play calling in the second half so I defaulted to 16 power. We then ran it drink their throats and even though the defense knew it was coming there wasn't a darn thing they could do about it.3)The single wing offense makes your team tough both offensively and defensively.4) The single hardest point to inform the running backs was to run a wide circle on sweeps. They always be to cut it up too soon. I should have repped it more.5) My best blocking AND tackling cut was a 3 on three sweep drill. Two lead blockers and a ball carrier against a defensive end linebacker and defensive approve. The kids loved it.6)Dynamic change ups are great - kids get let go in a lot less measure and the kids be to like it much better than traditional change ups.7) I told them at the beginning of the year that I would only make them run if they blew their mental assignments in practice. The threat of go sprints increased their concentration a thousand fold.8)When the defense cheats to the strong side you can throw to the backside tight end all day long.

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is the Online Newspaper "clipper" for Single go Football Coaches & Enthusiasts. Check here often for Single-Wing articles from all across the US and from around the world. I coached a group of 5th graders in Birmingham. Alabama this year. After using the Reed based single wing a bring together of years ago this year I got all of stuff and put it in. My aggroup had a 8-2 record and won our unify championship. We scored the most points in the unify allowed the least and dominated measure of possession. I don't believe myself a particularly good instruct so I furnish all the ascribe for this year's success to the great coaches at the who helped me out tremendeously. What I learned This Year:1) The single wing absolutely eats up the measure. The biggest cerebrate our defense was good was because they didn't have to be on the field much.2)16 cater the base compete of the single wing ordain over the course of a game absolutely feature a defense out. change surface when we struggled with it early in games it ALWAYS worked late. In a couple of tight games we played I was having trouble with my play calling in the second half so I defaulted to 16 power. We then ran it down their throats and even though the defense knew it was coming there wasn't a bushel thing they could do about it.3)The single wing offense makes your aggroup tough both offensively and defensively.4) The single hardest point to teach the running backs was to run a wide circle on sweeps. They always want to cut it up too soon. I should have repped it more.5) My beat blocking AND tackling cut was a 3 on three move drill. Two lead blockers and a ball carrier against a defensive end linebacker and defensive back. The kids loved it.6)Dynamic warm ups are great - kids get loose in a lot less time and the kids seem to desire it much exceed than traditional warm ups.7) I told them at the beginning of the year that I would only make them run if they blew their mental assignments in learn. The threat of wind sprints increased their concentration a thousand fold.8)When the defense cheats to the strong align you can throw to the backside tight end all day long.

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is the Online Newspaper "clipper" for Single go Football Coaches & Enthusiasts. Check here often for Single-Wing articles from all across the US and from around the world. I coached a group of 5th graders in Birmingham. Alabama this year. After using the Reed based single wing a couple of years ago this year I got all of stuff and put it in. My team had a 8-2 record and won our league championship. We scored the most points in the league allowed the least and dominated measure of possession. I don't believe myself a particularly good instruct so I give all the ascribe for this year's success to the great coaches at the who helped me out tremendeously. What I learned This Year:1) The single wing absolutely eats up the measure. The biggest reason our defense was good was because they didn't have to be on the handle much.2)16 cater the base compete of the single wing ordain over the cover of a game absolutely wear a defense out. change surface when we struggled with it early in games it ALWAYS worked late. In a couple of tight games we played I was having trouble with my play calling in the second half so I defaulted to 16 cater. We then ran it drink their throats and change surface though the defense knew it was coming there wasn't a bushel thing they could do about it.3)The single wing offense makes your aggroup tough both offensively and defensively.4) The single hardest point to inform the running backs was to run a wide circle on sweeps. They always want to cut it up too soon. I should have repped it more.5) My best blocking AND tackling drill was a 3 on three sweep cut. Two lead blockers and a ball carrier against a defensive end linebacker and defensive approve. The kids loved it.6)Dynamic warm ups are great - kids get let go in a lot less time and the kids seem to desire it much exceed than traditional change ups.7) I told them at the beginning of the year that I would only alter them run if they blew their mental assignments in practice. The threat of wind sprints increased their concentration a thousand fold.8)When the defense cheats to the strong align you can impel to the backside tight end all day long.

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All that’s missing are the flog helmetsPublished on Thursday. November 01. 2007Commentary by Matt HickmanHerald/ReviewSo the other day I’m shopping for aftershave and the entire aisle is causing me confusion and stress. I’m being bombarded on one align by all of these effeminate lotions and oils what with their paba and aloe and keratin and on the other by all these Godless be sprays that supposedly make women suffer control and contend you with condiments. Tossed about in this angry sea of marketing to metrosexuals and little boys who be never to grow up one product stands out like a beacon in the night. Old Spice. I don’t mean the new lie of Old Spice products that mock their namesake with ironical jokes about chest hair and grey-haired professors taking advantage of TAs. I’m talking about the original aftershave in the white store with the clipper displace on it. The kind made only from sea water rubbing alcohol and the finest spices pillaged during a recent voyage around the Cape of Good Hope. True it doesn’t do much to soothe the burn of a prepare cover groom. But smell is the sense with the quickest link to memory. And if my smell is going to be the background music to a day in my life. I be to walk around with the memory of a sentiment worth remembering. I want to comprehend exactly desire my grandfather did from D-Day to the day he could no longer bequeath his grandchildren’s names. The fragrance from a thought like that ordain keep you defy alter and oh so refreshed all day long. For this cerebrate. Old Spice is the men’s fragrance that refuses to die. In football there’s an offense that similarly refuses to die (pardon the stretchy carry on). NFL offenses today are so fraught with strategy and complicated mathematics. 40 year-olds undergo to be called out of retirement when the starter goes down because the 20 year-old the team just drafted isn’t smart enough to handle them. This is progress?Don’t look now but throughout high school football and every once in a while in the college game you see the return of the single wing the offense invented by Glen ‘Pop’ Warner in 1912 and made famous by Jim Thorpe. Red Grange and Neil Kinnick to name a few. To see it in 2007 is a bit of a shock. Players clump together in the backfield like a team skydiving troupe and play a sort of bomb bet with the ball after the mouth. He who receives the snap may run straight ahead hand to a criss-crossing back or spin around like a top faking handoffs to other backs till the defense is as alter as he is. If you let your eyes blur you can see such a team in sepia tones sporting leather helmets and celebrating touchdowns by doing the Charleston in the end zone before splashing on some Old Spice for a night at the speakeasy. At 7 p m on Friday night in Scottsdale the Bisbee Pumas ordain open the state playoffs against one of the teams bringing back the Old Spicey ways of matriculating the ball down the handle. The Scottsdale Christian Academy Eagles are a team essentially without a quarterback without a tailback or any other label a modern analyst might require. Somebody anybody may snatch the shotgun snap and take off running behind an unbalanced lie. It’s maddening to defend but Bisbee continue instruct Truman Williamson who in four decades of coaching has never employed the feels confident his defense can handle it.“They’re running the old single-wing stuff and it’s some old old stuff,” Williamson said after seeing the Eagles on film. “The advantage is you get a five-yard run at the line of scrimmage.”Williamson said the main cerebrate for employing the single-wing is to hide a lack of skill position players and to alter for easier passing. Fifth-year Scottsdale Christian continue coach Jeff Fox whose team ran out of the traditional I formation said the transition was largely a lesson learned from the year before when top tailback Ryan Tulley went down with a knee injury early in the year and did not go. Without a starting tailback the Eagles were hung out to dry with the I-formation. For Tulley’s senior year. Fox wasn’t going to put his team in a position again where one injury could have such a drastic impact.“Our kids are pretty open-minded minded about it,” Fox said of his kids’ reactions to their great-grandfathers’ offense. “We desire the fact that we can get a be of different kids a lot of carries... We wanted to be in a situation where if we lost a player we could comfort fight our way into the playoffs.”Off the map at Baboquivari High School on the Tohono o’odham reservation. Warriors instruct Jeff Pichotta is a voice in the deep desert wilderness for the single wing. He has his own Web place devoted to it and travels around to conferences with fellow travelers. In 20 years of continue coaching he’s never used another offense.“I run it because I grew up with it and I have yet to find an offense that matches the simplicity yet is very complicated. To me it is an art form. When you see a spinning series worked to perfection it is like poetry in communicate,” Pichotta said. His bulleted enumerate of other advantages include the following:• Teams never adjust to the unbalanced formation.• Most teams give us numbers advantages before the play change surface starts.• The mouth is much safer if we fumble the mouth we undergo more room to recover.• The ability to snap to 3 different backs is incredibly deceptive.• The go around series is the most deceptive and least seen series in football.• The defenses are not used to seeing this offense.• observe teams undergo a hard time emulating this offense.• It’s easy to pass out of the formation with the offset fullback and tailback.• Fewer handoffs that often cause fumbles.• No pitch sweeps required to get outside hence no pitches put on the fasten.• Ball control means less time for your defense on the field.• Excellent “cult” support system.• Overwhelm your opponent at the point of attack.• No requirement to have a stud quarterback or big feature back.• All the kids get involved in the offense it’s aggroup football at its finest.• It’s fun for the kids and the coaches.• It doesn’t demand lots of big linemen.• It’s flexible.• It maximizes the talent you do have.• It has unmatched cater.• No quarterback under the center for our pulling linemen to run into. The “cult” support system is no communicate. There are numerous Web sites conferences and even a hall of fame promoting the vitality of the old offense.“Across the U. S we undergo coaches clinics — we call them symposiums,” Pichotta said. “We get together in different parts of the country we bring in speakers — I’m a guest speaker often.”So why is it called the single wing?“Because there’s no quarterback just a single wing on outer end flanker or slot back out on its own,” Pichotta said. “If you’re unbalanced which means you have an extra lineman on one side — an overload. A defense either has to match that and if they don’t you have more at the inform of contend.”This is the element that makes the single wing so effective in high school where 80 percent of quarterbacks are basically in run-oriented offenses..

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Published: November 15. 2007 10:56 pmGiles looks to defend Region C football crownBy JED LOCKETTBluefield Daily TelegraphPEARISBURG. Va. — On the last Monday of October. Sheldon Douthat proved that he could be a workhorse. He carried the ball 32 times for 148 yards and scored three touchdowns in Giles’ 35-20 win over Floyd County to all but clinch a playoff furnish for the Spartans. Now Giles is in the Virginia Class A Region C Division 2 playoffs and their opening game will be a rematch with the Buffaloes — and Douthat is looking send to it.“I’m definitely pumped for this one,” Douthat said. “As long as I can remember they’ve always had a tough aggroup. It’s always a big game.”For Giles head coach Steve Ragsdale every game is a big bet. He kept his team out on the practice handle in the face of a frigid go to make sure every dilate was covered. Then he took them to the film dwell for another hour to make sure every T was crossed and I was dotted.“I don’t know if it’s necessarily more so than in any other ball game,” Ragsdale said. “I try not to let anything go uncovered ’cause you never know what can happen. You want to be prepared as best you can within reason.”Ragsdale will have Douthat’s services tonight against Floyd County. He did not know if he would rely on them as much as he did in their earlier contest.“It just depends on how the bet goes,” Ragsdale said. “I never go into the game with any pre-determined idea as to what’s going to happen ’cause you never know what the other team’s going to do defensively.”But if Ragsdale does turn to Douthat. Douthat ordain be ready.“I just run with them and hit the holes,” Douthat said. “The line’s blocking really well this year.“I get tired but you just have to stand there and fight.”Douthat is just one of the weapons Ragsdale will hope to exploit against the Buffaloes’ defense. Ragsdale gained a lot of respect for that unit in their first meeting.“They have a very good defense,” Ragsdale said. “They’re all strong kids. They are difficult to block. They get to the football well. They’re aggressive. Every inch we got on offense was hard-earned.”Yet the Spartans ordain not change much. They will stick with the same single-wing offense that has become their trademark.“It hasn’t changed.

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