Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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I've been at the school for 10 years now. Playing state powerhouse, they come in with 28 game win streak, blah, blah, blah. Great game, back and forth, lousy conditions, we're up 9-8 after taking intentional safety. On their next drive (2 min to go) we pick them off at our own 10. They have no TO's left, so we run into the line 3 times, then punt with 16 seconds left. We call TO with playclock at 1 to set things up. We make sure of protection, get punt team ready, then we kick. I'm sure they're coming after the block, right? Nope. They fair catch the ball at the 37 yard line. Who can guess what happens next? You older, wiser coaches can probably think of it. The officials back all our kids up 10 yards off the LOS, and the placekicker comes trotting out onto the field with the kicking block and a holder. We stand there and watch, helpless to do anything as this kid booms a 47 yard FREE KICK field goal! Of all the things. What a helpless feeling. Credit to the kid for making the clutch kick, and to their coach for realizing the opportunity. What a sick feeling. Thanks for letting me vent, I've been an avid reader for the past year, but haven't written in before. Anyone else ever coached in a game with a free kick? Anyone lost on one? :Q Enough whining for now, back in the saddle this week,
30 plus years coaching high school ball and I never even saw it done, let alone got beat by it. Is that rule in the national federation rule book or what? How about you ONE BACK?
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
At my former school we practiced it every thursday. We never got to use it but we were aware of it. The most suprising thing I saw lately was a team that didn't have a snapper that could snap 13yards. So the team lined up and kicked a field goal from their own 30. In essences it was similar to a punt. It was not as effective as a punt though.
Sure appreciate your post. Like I said I never heard of the rule or saw it performed as Zuck and Bill have.
I feel your pain in losing that way! I coached HS ball in Florida, for the most part, in the highest classificaton of the state to the second lowest and just never run across it that I can remember. I know Bill coached in Virginia, where do you coach Zuck?
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE
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We're a Multiple Pro-Set with a West Coast based Passing Attack on Offense.
On defense we're becoming more and more a 3-3 Stack team but we still sprinkle in some 4-3.
That rule is a great question to ask all coaches. I quiz coaches on that all the time. Hardly anyone knows the rule. IT only applies to HS and NFL. Does not apply in college.
Can a FREE KICK be used from a place kicking Tee ? I'm asking, I don't know. I always thought a FREE kick could be used from a place kicking TEE.
Happy are those who dreams dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Admitteldy I am a neophyte in coaching with only a few years of experience and I had never heard of this rule before but in our game this weekend a ref told me about this same rule. Our team was in a similar position (on the field that is) not with the game on the line and he told me if they would have fair caught the punt they could have lined up for a free kickoff to make the field goal and I couldn't believe it. Grouchy I am sorry to hear about your team losing the game that way but it is a very interesting rule that I am glad I learned (not the hard way)
The referee told me they could line up like a kickoff and kick it off the tee through the field goal and the other team stands ten yards away with no rush. I don't know if you were refering to this rule or a free kick in general but they can use a tee with this rule according to the ref I talked to in CA.
Thanks. that was my question. I was wondering why the above posted team would use a holder when they could have used a kicking tee. Maybe for them, the block was easier.
Happy are those who dreams dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Lets say the free kick is unsuccessful with the ball going into the endzone. There is still 15 seconds to go on the game clock. Does the ball revert back to the point it was actually kicked from (like on a failed field goal) or does it come back out to the 20 as if a regular touchback?
Or how about this? The free kick falls way short and remains on the field of play. Can the defending team now run it back as it would a punt? If not, what happens then? Thanks for your time.
Coach Easton-TIGER ONE
J.C. EASTON<BR>HEAD COACH<BR>GA TIGERS FOOTBALL<BR>PROFESSIONAL MINOR LEAGUE