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Arm’s Race in High School Football?

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 This is a football geek post. I now go to our local high school football games (my daughter is on the dance squad – so I support the team of course). After having gone to two games this year, I’m already seeing a pattern. Teams are breaking out these incredibly diverse offenses to try and offset some of their physical weaknesses against stronger opponents. In one situation, it worked for the team – they knocked off a better opponent. In the other instance, the ploy almost worked – it kept the game a lot closer than it should have been even though the fell short by one score.

 

I sat next to a gentleman at the last game that played back in the 40′s and 50′s – and he jumped up and said look “they’re running the old double wing offense, haven’t seen that in decades!” We know the story about some of the new offenses we see across the NFL, NCAA and High School: there’s now the pistol, the wildcat, the double wing and a host of new innovations in football “offenses”.

 

There’s a morale to this story – two actually. First, remember that the more things change, the more they stay the same. There is nothing new under the sun (figuratively speaking), so most “new” things are variations and modifications from older things. Don’t forget that there is a time and place for digging out the old play books and running a variation of the old “double wing offense”.

 

Second, we still have to push for constant innovation and creativity. There are times when it is necessary to change our approach – throw out the old playbook and reach for a new one. And in the case of these two schools, both went to schools in the south that had been successful with those offenses and worked with coaches at those schools to borrow the playbook. Non-competing schools working together to better both – interesting concept.

 

Well, time to go see if I can pull out the old “Wishbone” to use in our company, could be really interesting to introduce the “option” in the marketplace.what a cool concept.


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