my kid plays for this team and I suggested teaching basic football routes etc and maybe only letting DJ run the ball every 4 downs and rotate quarterbacks... Shane and I were chatting abt it last night and I asked him how many running backs we had.... His response "oh Amanda, I've got 13 running backs" oh it was so funny, I kept laughing for abt an hour afterwards thinking "my God I'm glad my job is to cheer and chase Allie" Not sure if y'all are familiar with broken arrow, OK. But they take this shit serious. This park has 5 football fields with bleachers, call booths, lights and score signs... All for ages 5-9 football!!! I see a jumbotron next year to watch replays... Crazy
Oklahoman's are definitely serious about their football. This meltdown from 2005 is epic. http://ericba0.tripod.com/OUvsUSC_orangebowl_thread.pdf
Why doesn't Oklahoma produce a lot of top tier talent? I know the state produces some, but for a state that treats football as a religion you would think it would be more.
Oklahoma, Nebraska and most of the great plains states north of Texas have a lot of wide open spaces meaning they have a lot of small rural high schools that are too scattered to consolidate. Lots of B and C schools with no football programs, although some play 8-man football. And outside of a few urban cities, there are few black athletes. It is why Oklahoma and Nebraska have always recruited nationally. They have to go looking for speed.
That made me curious about how much of the United States is unpopulated. So I found this map. The green represents unpopulated areas. Roughly 47 percent of the United States is unpopulated. That's interesting.
You would not make a good football coach. You go with your best QB and play every player in positions accrording to their physicalities and abilities. A kid who runs a 6 second 40 is going to be a turrible, turrible running back but might just be a good tackle. I know its important for every kid in youth football to get to play but it's also important to learn how to win.
