This'll cure your fumble-itis

[alleyallen]

A high school coach in East Texas is employing a rather unique way to cure his team of fumble-itis after the squad dropped the ball five times in their opening game.

http://www.itemonline.com/sports/local_story_250001728.html?keyword=topstory

Neat stuff here.

 

[Ace]

A high school coach in East Texas is employing a rather unique way to cure his team of fumble-itis after the squad dropped the ball five times in their opening game.

http://www.itemonline.com/sports/local_story_250001728.html?keyword=topstory

Neat stuff here.

Good high school sports story. That's the kind of stuff to look for.

 

[alleyallen]

A high school coach in East Texas is employing a rather unique way to cure his team of fumble-itis after the squad dropped the ball five times in their opening game.

http://www.itemonline.com/sports/local_story_250001728.html?keyword=topstory

Neat stuff here.

Good high school sports story. That's the kind of stuff to look for.

It's actually the paper where I was AME for about four years.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Cool story, though the "baby the ball" tactic doesn't seem particularly original.

 

[SockPuppet]

As John Heisman said, holding a football and addressing his team, "Better to die young boy than to fumble this.''

 

[hiredguy]

They did this in The Program

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Nick Saban (I seem to be posting a lot about him these days) gave Alley Broussard, then a freshman TB, the "baby" treatment in 2003 after he fumbled twice late in a blowout LSU victory at Arizona.

 

[DisembodiedOwlHead]

I hear that HS also encourages kids to lay down one the middle stripe in traffic.

 

[Claws for Concern]

This is an old ritual, but a good one. Humbling, but a smart mental thing.

 

[farmerjerome]

I like it. But it'd be a lot better if they superglued it to their hands.

Just kidding. Nice work by the coach. A team that I covered could have used this a couple of years ago. Player of the year fumbled three times in a state playoff.

 

[Bob Cook]

This is a very old, and effective, technique. In "Instant Replay," Jerry Kramer writes about Vince Lombardi having rookie Travis Williams cart the ball wherever he went -- including cradling it as he slept -- to solve his fumbling problems. It worked well enough for Williams to have one of the most electrifying seasons for a kick returner ever, the 1967 Super Bowl season.

Unfortunately, there was no equivalent to solve all the other personal problems Williams had after he retired.

 

[Platyrhynchos]

My high school coach made me do the same thing.

That was 31 years ago.

 

[alleyallen]

I understand that this is not a new idea, although in all my years of following Texas high school football I'd never seen this.

 

[Beef03]

I prefer the duct tape method. In Minor hockey during practice my coach would tape my gloves to my stick so I would keep two hands on my stick and it worked.

 

[OnTheRiver]

Did anyone else read the thread title and think it said "Fumble-tits"?