Post by lochness on Mar 8, 2005 6:55:58 GMT
Coaches,
I will need your advice on this one.
I am always trying to look ahead 2 years when planning offensive installation and player development. We have 7 returning starters coming back on offense next season, including a 3 year starter at QB and 4 of our 5 offensive linemen. They are all very smart guys and fundamentally sound. For 2005, our personnel are generally going to be the same and I see very little reason to change much on offense, other than the fact that we are going to incorporate some H-back formations due to the abundance of TE / FB talent we have.
My concern is for 2006. We will have a much smaller OL, a small but athletic QB, and some talented but not sensational guys in the RB pool. My thoughts have been mostly on running option schemes and zone blocking schemes to better meet the talents of our QB and OL. Currently, we are more of a power football team (iso's, man blocking, some IZ, traps, counter trey, guards pulling, etc.).
The problem is that option and zone will be relatively new concepts to us if we go to install them in 2006. I am thinking that we should probably introduce them now in 2005, even though it is not our intention to run them very much. I just don't want this to take away from what we do well already. We don't have spring ball here, so it is difficult to work on these things. I think we have enough experience to slide it by, but what do you guys think?
We've worked very hard over the past 3 years to raise a team that was bottom tier up to middle-upper tier. We've gone from ending up with 40-50 kids in the program at year end to 100 kids at year end. I want to make sure we are always competitive and that we don't have to go through that mess every again. I know we are looking at a talent drop-off after 2005, so is it reasonable to start preparing now?
I will need your advice on this one.
I am always trying to look ahead 2 years when planning offensive installation and player development. We have 7 returning starters coming back on offense next season, including a 3 year starter at QB and 4 of our 5 offensive linemen. They are all very smart guys and fundamentally sound. For 2005, our personnel are generally going to be the same and I see very little reason to change much on offense, other than the fact that we are going to incorporate some H-back formations due to the abundance of TE / FB talent we have.
My concern is for 2006. We will have a much smaller OL, a small but athletic QB, and some talented but not sensational guys in the RB pool. My thoughts have been mostly on running option schemes and zone blocking schemes to better meet the talents of our QB and OL. Currently, we are more of a power football team (iso's, man blocking, some IZ, traps, counter trey, guards pulling, etc.).
The problem is that option and zone will be relatively new concepts to us if we go to install them in 2006. I am thinking that we should probably introduce them now in 2005, even though it is not our intention to run them very much. I just don't want this to take away from what we do well already. We don't have spring ball here, so it is difficult to work on these things. I think we have enough experience to slide it by, but what do you guys think?
We've worked very hard over the past 3 years to raise a team that was bottom tier up to middle-upper tier. We've gone from ending up with 40-50 kids in the program at year end to 100 kids at year end. I want to make sure we are always competitive and that we don't have to go through that mess every again. I know we are looking at a talent drop-off after 2005, so is it reasonable to start preparing now?
I had never heard that one before. I knew about his son that QBed at UVA, never knew about the Punter at Richmond. Are they still the Spiders? Interesting story on that note: One afternoon just before practice the HC and I were sitting in the team room (we had a beautiful new field house, 3 million bucks worth) and I looked up on the wall and here was this giant Florida spider, about the size of a tarantula! I grabbed the broom and was fixin' to way lay him when the coach yells "No coach Easton, don't kill him!" When I said "why not?" he says " Man, what's wrong with you! Thats the starting left tackle on the spider team! " I about fell out!