Quote Originally Posted by Ironlung View Post
What you folks seem to forget (and Counts pointed it out to me during that game) is that when Union kept getting yardage with that during the first half Clintwood called a T/O in the 2nd quarter and they widened out their outside LB's. After that T/O Union ran it again and got 4-5 yards after that, that play was stuffed. That's the reason they went to the spread. That play was not going to work anymore against Clintwood.
Clintwood did widen out and stop the sweep but if Union would have stayed in the T and ran barker up the gut for a few 4 or 5 yard carries every other down or so then that would have made clintwood pull back in. Union dont have the type of players to run the spread. Justas was mentioned by dawgs 2010, all offenses are designed to work and execution plays a huge roll in making any offense work, but you have to play to what you have to make it work. For example, Clintwood has a young qb who is just learning the possition so it would be kind of bad for the coach to run an air attack run and shoot offense with him. Union dont have the qb to run a spread. Their pass game needs to consist of bootleg play action passes and maybe a few slant rout passes out of the T or I formation. Ball controll offenses like appalachia used to run are very happy with 3 to 4 yards a down because every three downs you have a first down. It keeps the game low scoring but it sure helps to win doing that