2015 Preseason schedule is announced.

[Dodger12]

By the way that #22 was truly gifted, consistently ran a 9.7 100 yard dash in track. #34 wasn't far behind him. And both were bruising backs, shifty and slashing as well. Either could take it to the house on any given play from any spot on the field. We lost only one game in three years, when both happened to be out with injury.

It's amazing how much even the high school game has changed. You'd rarely see any passes thrown back then. Now HS teams run a spread offense, go no huddle and throw the ball all over the field.

 

[Dodger12]

That fucker... He'll defy us all and still be around when Midswat finally kicks the bucket at around age 90.

Midswat will die of AIDS long before then. His gay French airline steward will see to that.

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

So Dooms, if you watch college football much, were your plays much like Gus Malzahn ran at Auburn in 2013 with all the misdirection, players going wide, etc.? Or was it more straight ahead stuff? Supposedly he got a lot of his inspiration with all the backfield misdirection from the old Wing T.

Also, I love that old West Texas field. Almost as much dirt as grass, amirite?

 

[Doomsday]

It's amazing how much even the high school game has changed. You'd rarely see any passes thrown back then. Now HS teams run a spread offense, go no huddle and throw the ball all over the field.

We would throw quite alot for a split T, usually pretty much though a 2-1 ratio with the running. But if we found vulnerability against the pass we would throw it all day until the defense corrected the matchup issue.

That was the whole philosophy of this offense. To at first probe the defense for weak spots, then run that same play over and over until the opponent showed they could stop it. Then we would move on to another play, until they started slowing that down too.

One day we ran "50 Pop" 20 times straight... Another, we threw 40 times. It all depended on what the probing in the first quarter found.

 

[Doomsday]

So Dooms, if you watch college football much, were your plays much like Gus Malzahn ran at Auburn in 2013 with all the misdirection, players going wide, etc.? Or was it more straight ahead stuff? Supposedly he got a lot of his inspiration with all the backfield misdirection from the old Wing T.

The Wing T was a outgrowth of the split T, with a wingback added to cause more matchup issues with the defense. We had some wing T plays we would run as well. And yeah, most all of the plays other than the "Pop" plays and the "Blast" plays were misdirection and option pitches.

Also, I love that old West Texas field. Almost as much dirt as grass, amirite?

Yep, it was called "Sticker Stadium." We had one opponent who had tall grass and would water their shit for the whole week leading up to when we were coming in, making the grass tall and the field muddy. It held the score down but we still beat their asses. Our field was flat, sparse and very fast. Picture was taken on the practice field there.

 

[Doomsday]

Practice was brutal - game day was practically a day off for us. We would run through the whole playbook against our own 1st team defense and we better execute all the plays perfectly or there would be hell to pay. If we weren't sharp in practice the coaches would make us "crab" around the goal posts. If you alone kept making mistakes they would make you "crab" until you would drop.

Crabbing is literally, crawling like a crab would. A 120 yard football field is LONG when you're crabbing. We tried really hard not to have to do that. But by game day, we were a really surly and pissed off bunch, ready to knock some jocks off.

We didn't have any kind of FG or extra point kicking team - we always went for two. Kicking was for sissies. But we DID have the drop kick in our playbook and I was the drop kicker. Had about a 50 percent success rate.