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So the offense has completely quit on the RPO game?

Not a great throw but Crooms has to catch that.

This is also a major problem for football. You're right that parents are investing huge money into those other sports. All for the chance at that scholarship that honestly isn't coming for most of them. All we ask of our players in the off-season is to work out and do some speed work so they...

I agree 100% that 2 classes of 9-man NEEDS to happen, BUT there still has to be enrollment ranges for each. Currently it's 150 and below for 9-man before appeals. I am not sure you could just say 150 and above for the other class. You might end up with a school of 160 enrollment up against a...

Thanks for the clarification. I see those schools and think that they are ALL huge with our class sizes in the 30s and 40s. Maybe a top class of 16 or 24? The problem is always the cut-off lines make those right on them either really happy or really upset. I know that our schools have sometimes...

0-4 with a pick six and sack for the second half passing. The passing game has completely regressed into nothingness... Ya ya, Michigan is a great defense, but this has become and all too common thing game in and game out...

Ufff. Our passing game is rough. Can’t protect. Can’t get open. Can’t put the pass in the proper place. AK has the arm strength but the accuracy is lacking.

This is the thing with many sports in high school now, football in particular. It's a physically demanding sport, and requires toughness (both physical and mental) and more and more kids today don't seem to have either. Been coaching for more than 20 years at small schools and am seeing the...

Here is what Indiana does with what they call "Tournament Success Factor" https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/Tournament%20Success%20Factor.pdf

I said this during the game. I've seen high school offenses with more advanced passing attacks than the Gophers. They don't need to be the "Air Raid" Wacker-years Gophers, but they don't even seem to have schemes to beat the coverages they see. Cover 0 and 1 Crossing and Rub Concepts - They...

The Gopher passing game is the most basic scheme I’ve ever seen at the college level.

Pass rush basics. Ends must rush outside to contain. We even coach that in HS. Rush lane integrity.

Yes. Blown by #7.

Exactly the difficulty with this defense. It creates multiple levels that allows defenders to get open run thrus to the ball carriers. It is a very confusing defense for an offense but you better have three dudes up front that can eat up blockers and Nebraska looks to have those.

This actually started last fall. Some families are what’s called direct certs from the state but by no means does that cover every family that actually meets the qualifications for ”educational benefits”. (Thats the new term for it). For instance, last fall, our school was able to direct cert...

No chance of that. The only way anything remotely close to that happening would be based on "points". It would be a 2-year cycle. If you win a state title, you get x points. You make it to state final, you get x points. You win your section you get x points. You accumulate a certain number of...

So you would be in favor of something like promotion and relegation like the soccer leagues in Europe? I believe that some states have a "success" factor that applies to their class placement. I don't know the specifics on any of that.

Explain how we would be better served with 6. And to the point I made about those schools dropping down. It doesn't have anything to do with enrollments increasing compared to peers. Albert Lea dropped from 843 to 760 Cannon Falls dropped from 363 to 302 Red Wing dropped from 701 to 593...

Seems as though quite a few schools are facing declining enrollments. Red Wing, Albert Lea, and Stewartville all dropped down to AAA from AAAA. Cannon Falls drops from AAA to AA. Goodhue drops back to A from AA. Thank goodness that they didn't place Cannon Falls in Section 1AA. Having Chatfield...

Supposed to be a preliminary update out on 9-man through AAAAA districts next Friday. Those are a lot more difficult to do since they can't just use sections since there is no class that has full sections of 8 teams like AAAAAA does.