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[JR4AU]

Been watching Aliceville for 18 years.  They start throwing from the first play.  I've thought they coach like they are playing PlayStation. 
 

There's a lot of that going around.  Some coaches are enamored by it, while other cave to parent or even admin pressure to look like the latest craze in college football.   

We beat the shit out of PA the other night.  They're a veer team, and not a good one.  Though they got an athlete at QB.  Fast motherfuckin' white boy!  I understand that in times past they've been a good small private school program?

[JR4AU]

I saw where Lanier is in the DB rotation at UT.

What about the long snapper rotation?

[Snaggletiger]

What about the long snapper rotation?

That's definite concern got UT.

[Kaos]

There's a lot of that going around.  Some coaches are enamored by it, while other cave to parent or even admin pressure to look like the latest craze in college football.   

We beat the shit out of PA the other night.  They're a veer team, and not a good one.  Though they got an athlete at QB.  Fast motherfuckin' white boy!  I understand that in times past they've been a good small private school program?

In the early 90s they were as good as I've seen in AISA.   Won five championships or more.  Had some kids go on to play small college ball at places like UWA, Jax, Samford, etc. 

Josh Wright (now HC at Bessemer) was a damn good QB and could run.  His brother Jody Wright -- where do we know that name? -- was hell at RB.  If he got outside it was over.  They both set AISA records.  Had some big linemen, too.  Real headhunter defense.  Super linebacking. 

Then the parents started flexing muscle.  This one wasn't playing, that one should be over there.  Eventually forced the coach and headmaster out.  Downhill ever since. 

Not sure he could do much with the numbers they have now, though.  Small scrawny kids.  I picked them to go 5-5, but my instincts really said 2-8 at best. 

[AU_Tiger_2000]

There's a lot of that going around.  Some coaches are enamored by it, while other cave to parent or even admin pressure to look like the latest craze in college football.   

We beat the shitake out of PA the other night.  They're a veer team, and not a good one.  Though they got an athlete at QB.  Fast motherfudgein' white boy!  I understand that in times past they've been a good small private school program?

PA as in Patrician Academy?  We used to play them when I was in high school (Clarke County Prep; nee Grove Hill Academy) in the old AISA days.  I can't remember one way or another about them in high school football, I know they kicked the crap out of us one year in basketball.

Every week in AISA it was Wing-T or the Veer, you didn't see a lot of creative play calling.   Down south Alabama it's all power football even with the bigger schools.  When Thomasville played Guntersville for the 4A state championship a few years ago Thomasville came out in the Wing-T and ran on Guntersville pretty good, but had not idea how to stop the spread O that Guntersville was running.  Thomasville just lined up in a 4-3 defense and played two deep-5 under zone and got picked apart.

[Kaos]

Pickens. Not patrician.

[djsimp]

I think the lure of the all out spread passing has about run it's course, for the most part.  Some are still enamored with it.  The move to power run spread, IMO, is due, in part, to what guys like Malzahn and Meyer have done with the power running spread.  Pelham HS used to be a Tony Franklin System team.  Unlike Hoover, they never had much success with it.  Their "Franklin guy" left to take a HC job in GA, and they've now gone to Double Wing.  I haven't seen them play, but was told they're running it a la Ga Tech, which is not what I call Double Wing, but that's what I heard Josh Niblet call it the other day in a radio interview.  At any rate, whether it's power Double Wing, or Option Flexbone, it's certainly a far cry from the 40 pass per game spread.   Then again, the guy that just came in at Spain Park is a Tony Franklin System guy, though he doesn't call it that, that's essentially what it is.   Niblet kept the spread look at Hoover, but is much more run oriented.

Niblett will win championships at Hoover. He coached a bunch of white boys to a state championship at Oneonta a few years back. He is a good guy and a good coach.

[ssgaufan]

I think the lure of the all out spread passing has about run it's course, for the most part.  Some are still enamored with it.  The move to power run spread, IMO, is due, in part, to what guys like Malzahn and Meyer have done with the power running spread.  Pelham HS used to be a Tony Franklin System team.  Unlike Hoover, they never had much success with it.  Their "Franklin guy" left to take a HC job in GA, and they've now gone to Double Wing.  I haven't seen them play, but was told they're running it a la Ga Tech, which is not what I call Double Wing, but that's what I heard Josh Niblet call it the other day in a radio interview.  At any rate, whether it's power Double Wing, or Option Flexbone, it's certainly a far cry from the 40 pass per game spread.   Then again, the guy that just came in at Spain Park is a Tony Franklin System guy, though he doesn't call it that, that's essentially what it is.   Niblet kept the spread look at Hoover, but is much more run oriented.

Just want to point out that Hueytown beat the crap out of Pelham in the season opener.  Hueytown uses the spread (and the have Jameis Winston).

[AUTiger1]

I usually do a lot better job about keeping up with the teams that are close by.....The only ones I am hearing about around here are Tanner, Hartselle, Muscle Shoals, and Deshler.  I need to get on the ball and see what's up so I can find some games to go to.

[ssgaufan]

I usually do a lot better job about keeping up with the teams that are close by.....The only ones I am hearing about around here are Tanner, Hartselle, Muscle Shoals, and Deshler.  I need to get on the ball and see what's up so I can find some games to go to.

I can tell you that Sparkman looks like crap.  They had a football player killed in a car wreck and buried him the week prior to the season starting.  Somebody told me that there are two directions a team will go from that kind of tradgedy, and it looks like it will be a long season for the Senators.

[AUTiger1]

I can tell you that Sparkman looks like crap.  They had a football player killed in a car wreck and buried him the week prior to the season starting.  Somebody told me that there are two directions a team will go from that kind of tradgedy, and it looks like it will be a long season for the Senators.

I didn't know that.  Sad. 

Have you seen Hartselle or Athens play this year.  I head Athens is teh suck.

[Snaggletiger]

Daleville H.S....home of Tony Richardson...beat Bullock County 53-23 Friday night.  They had a running back, Brandon Burks rush for 401 yards and 7 TD's.  2 more were called back for penalties.  Now granted, Bullock County normally is beyond suxxors, but that's impressive against a pee wee team. 

The most impressive thing about Bullock is usually the band.  I saw a half time show last year where 3 people got pregnant.  Good times.

[ssgaufan]

I didn't know that.  Sad. 

Have you seen Hartselle or Athens play this year.  I head Athens is teh suck.

I haven't seen either of those, but I have heard that Hartselle is looking like its normal self.  They had a pretty impressive win in the opener.

Since Snaggle mentioned pee wee football I will tell you what happened to my nephew this weekend.  My nephew is 11 and is about 5'5" and over 100lbs, so he is a good sized kid.  He went to make a tackle against a kid bigger than him (holy shit, there's some big kids in the 6th grade) and ended up getting his back broke in two different places.  He had to be transported by amberlamps to the ER.  He broke one in the C section of the spine and one in the L section.

[AWK]

I haven't seen either of those, but I have heard that Hartselle is looking like its normal self.  They had a pretty impressive win in the opener.

Since Snaggle mentioned pee wee football I will tell you what happened to my nephew this weekend.  My nephew is 11 and is about 5'5" and over 100lbs, so he is a good sized kid.  He went to make a tackle against a kid bigger than him (holy shit, there's some big kids in the 6th grade) and ended up getting his back broke in two different places.  He had to be transported by amberlamps to the ER.  He broke one in the C section of the spine and one in the L section.

Jesus, hope he is alright.

[AUTiger1]

Jesus, hope he is alright.

Yeah, me too. 

[ssgaufan]

Jesus, hope he is alright.

C-7 and L-5.  Yes he is ok, other than being in a lot of pain.  One other note, they didn't find the C-7 fracture that night at the ER.  My BIL was called Sunday morning and told that the radiologist had found another break. 

[Tiger Wench]

C-7 and L-5.  Yes he is ok, other than being in a lot of pain.  One other note, they didn't find the C-7 fracture that night at the ER.  My BIL was called Sunday morning and told that the radiologist had found another break.

Damn, dude.  Is he in a body cast?  That's neck and lower back - how in the HELL does an 11 yo get hit that hard?

[ssgaufan]

Damn, dude.  Is he in a body cast?  That's neck and lower back - how in the HELL does an 11 yo get hit that hard?

I'm not sure how it happened, all I was told was that he was trying to make a tackle against the boy.  May have landed funny or on another player.  No, they didn't put him in a cast, just gave him pain killers and he was suppose to go back today to see a specialist.  I'm out of town now, so I won't find out any updates till later tonight.

[Jumbo]

Daleville H.S....home of Tony Richardson...beat Bullock County 53-23 Friday night.  They had a running back, Brandon Burks rush for 401 yards and 7 TD's.  2 more were called back for penalties.  Now granted, Bullock County normally is beyond suxxors, but that's impressive against a pee wee team. 

The most impressive thing about Bullock is usually the band.  I saw a half time show last year where 3 people got pregnant.  Good times.

Now that's some good shit.