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These coaches should be ashamed of themselves. "Hey, lets see if I can outsmart a bunch of 12 year olds." :rolleye33:

 

Only time i would think that is acceptable is if your team is just incredibly overmatched that you have to do something.

 

Football is going down hill, it's becoming more like pro wrestling. We'll have people flipping and flopping like they do in soccer soon.

They just had a segment on Outside the Lines on cheating, they were showing all these videos including a coach that was using a play wristband that fell off the opposing teams QB wrist.

We occasional use to run something like this in basketball... if we got the ball at the start of 2nd half, everyone once in while we would set all our players up on the defensive side and the other team would think that was our goal.... we would inbound and the guy would get a clean layup because the defense was on the other side of the court. I would say it worked about 80% of the time. We certainly didn't practice it... one half the coach just say everyone get underneath the defense goal.

 

This reminds me of the two HS clowns out west who came up with the A-11 offense that was based on a scrimmage kick jersey numbering loophole. Even after the national body of HSAAs closed the loophole and made the A-11 illegal, these guys went around the country trying to sell their system and actually get high schools to withdraw from state HSAAs to form A-11 only leagues. I'd love to see a coach explain to his kids that they're going to give up their goal of a state championship to go run a gimmick offense.

At the HS level it doesn't even have to be that tricky. When I was in HS I kept the books and stats for the team and we played Dunham one year. Their jackass coach had them build up an 8-10 point lead, and had their kids bring the ball across halfcourt in the 2nd quarter, and just sat on it the rest of the game. They positioned one player on the opposte side of the court near halfcourt and passed to him if one of our guys started getting too close. No shot clock, perfectly legal.

 

That is when you rush a double team and try to force a closely guarded count turnover. They may break inside with an open lay-up but the next time they come up the floor you bum rush another double team and force the issue. There are always ways to break up a delay.

 

I went to a small 1-A school out in the boonies, nobody knew how to do that.

That same year Southern Lab beat us by 100+. Part of my job was keeping stats on the other teams' scorers and I just gave up once they took a 50-point lead. :rolleye33:

 

Freezing it? Doesn't sound like the "4 corner" variety.

Everybody pick up a man is all you need or put in a scrub from the bench and make him foul. :hihi:

Early on in my career at a middle school in Lake Charles we ran the fumbaruski (sp?) aka "guard around" against Iowa and our guard got his first touchdown. It went for 40 + yards.

 

I'd never heard of the A11 offense, so I youtubed it, but I'm not sure why it's illegal. Granted, I still don't know much about it, but from what I can tell, it's just a weird formation with a lot of eligible receivers. Can you elaborate on it a little?

To think those guys tried to convince high schools to withdraw from HSAAs just to run a gimmick offense is absurd. Can you imagine how that conversation went? I'm sure they had A LOT of success with that. :rolleye33:

Jeez, what a pu$$y. I think I'd intentionally foul or something.