Gentlemen,
I watched my first middle-school football game last week - first middle-school game I've seen in twenty years, that is. Have things progressed this much in two decades? I remember seeing middle-school teams running basic football on both sides of the ball...it was more of a "teach them the basics" game a couple decades ago. But, what I saw a couple days ago was vastly different. Spread. Shot gun. I heard one guy (I think someone's grandfather) say, "the QB is about to call a fair catch on the snap!" Is this just the progression of the game? Is shot gun so prevalent now, that installing spread offenses are now considered basic building block type stuff? I figured, after so much time away, that the game would have passed me by...but I had no idea. Is this a middle-school coach who is trying to do something that he shouldn't be...or is this the norm anymore? Help out an old vet who is trying to catch back up.
I watched my first middle-school football game last week - first middle-school game I've seen in twenty years, that is. Have things progressed this much in two decades? I remember seeing middle-school teams running basic football on both sides of the ball...it was more of a "teach them the basics" game a couple decades ago. But, what I saw a couple days ago was vastly different. Spread. Shot gun. I heard one guy (I think someone's grandfather) say, "the QB is about to call a fair catch on the snap!" Is this just the progression of the game? Is shot gun so prevalent now, that installing spread offenses are now considered basic building block type stuff? I figured, after so much time away, that the game would have passed me by...but I had no idea. Is this a middle-school coach who is trying to do something that he shouldn't be...or is this the norm anymore? Help out an old vet who is trying to catch back up.