New football offense

Out of interest I went back to the 2006 season...the one before they implementedthis "innovative offesne"... they seemed to have scored more, still only lost one conference game, and still made the playoffs where in the first round they only lost by 7 instead of 35 points.

I'm no coach, but that doesn't seem like much of a real improvement to me.

 

The center is the only guy not eligible for a pass.

 

What a pathetic article. A novice wrote it. Was a single thing fact-checked?

The average score for the team with the gimmick offense? 21.7 ppg. The team's average score after the first two games? 25.5 ppg. WOW!!!

This team scored more than 21 points just three times last season. THREE!! All seven wins were due to defense. Piedmont allowed 14 points or less in each win.

The season before the gimmick offense, Piedmont scored 71 more points.

The rival coach quoted in the article had a team that gave up 49+ points three times. His team only lost 47-7 to Piedmont.

Piedmont made the playoffs the year before. And the year before that. The team has had the exact same league record the past three seasons, 4-1.

Piedmont played 11 games under that same coach both last season and the season before. Eight of them were against the same opponents. Piedmont beat the same teams and lost to the same teams both seasons. The two extra wins in 2007 came against the Moreau school which sucked, and Trinity, which was 5-5 and has an enrollment half as much as Piedmont's (important when you consider one of the reasons for Piedmont's gimmick offense is that the article states the school has to compete with so many others twice its size).

The offense is a joke. The article is worse.

 

In my day we played real football, dammit. None of this consarned newfangled trickeration.

 

The hell with that. We're going old school (as dixiehack notes).

 

The greatest passing offense will never win a championship. You have to run the football (or be able to when needed) to win a championship at almost any level.

You would think the NE/NYG Super Bowl was 35 years ago.

In the defense of this offense, it would make the opposing team devote valuable practice time to prepare for it.

Sure, you are wasting time yourself, but gadget plays sometimes have more value than you think.

 

Bryan, Piedmont's coach, and Steve Humphries, the director of football operations, had developed an offense in which all 11 players on the field potentially are eligible to catch the ball.

So they didn't have the resources/athletes to compete with the big boys, but they've got a full-time director of football operations?

Hmmm ...

 

You forgot a wing, Ragu



Though I did see a team win an Oregon Class 2A semifinal game with the single wing. The score? 8-6...

 

If I were to coach, and had the athletes to do it.....I would do the pass-n-shoot.


WR WR WR G C G WR WR WR WR


QB


7-wide.

Chuck it all over the lot.

Run the big splits with the guards and the centers.

 

98 percent of high schools I've ever seen don't have the wide receivers to make an offense like this work well.

After the 10th sack, I'd start feeling bad for the quarterback.