ma77ox wrote:What stood out to me about Wellston also was that in the Athens game, They ran EVERY play from the I-Formation and never had any receivers spread wide.
In the NY game they used 2 wide on almost every down. They hardly ever changed into different formations.
I notice they like to try to run to the outside more then up the gut.
I think Meigs Defense is more geared to go against Wellston's style of Offense and will shut them down.
I agree with you. The main issue I have with this group of coaches at the moment at Wellston is lack of adjustments they make through out the game. From what I understand and have been told it comes from a lack of FOOTBALL IQ (None of the kids lack IQ in day to day things please do not take that the wrong way) among the kids. But that to me is not a valid reason. It isn't hard to throw in some zone blocking techniques and run some bootlegs, traps, and counter's. Most Programs are running these play's in 5&6th grade and up. for some odd reason all we run are jet sweeps, dives, and pitches it make no sense from my stand point with the players we have in the back field. It is also not hard to switch up the formation. The majority of all Wellston's plays are ran from three formations. A stacked I formation with one receiver, a regular I formation with 2 wide, and a hybrid power formation from the shotgun. My second issue which I didn't think would be one after last year.. Is lack of motivation and conditioning, as stated above by O&B our line is gassed by the 2nd Q, then on top of that we have come out flat every game since Week 3 against Adena. Defensively we have come out strong most game's but we have young guys that take themselves out of plays almost every time, which I hope will get better between now and next season with maturity and experience. On top of that in the past couple weeks for the first time I have seen Defensive players giving up before the play is even over.. I am not sure if this is something internal that I don't know about, but it just seems at this point that players do not want to be on the field, which has led to 3 straight poor performance's. hopefully they can get things figured out and maybe win out for a .500 season but I don't know if at this point that will be a possibility but, none the less I will be there to support the kids.