Alex Holland - STUD

[tidesturning]

Anyone have any predictions as to how many yards he'll finish the year with? Could he get over 2,500 yards again? 3,000?

He ran for 315 week 1 on 22 carries.

I do have to say though that I can't believe Smethport led at the half and only trailed by one point after 3 quarters. That's not something I saw happening.

[AMLDUDE]

Big thing is that he is very fast, so he's going to rip off long runs. Smethport really contained him last week, for the most part. His TD run were 4 carries and 227 yards, the rest of the night he was 18 carries for 88 yards.

I think he'll be up around 2,500 to 3,000. I don't think anyone in the league, outside of Brockway, can keep him under 200 yards for a game. I still think they are the only AML team that can match Cville at the line of scrimmage. The rest of the time I could picture him getting 10 yards per carry.

I'd also be concerned that Burg could very easily end up forfeiting their last game of the season, which will hurt his total. They only have 20 kids out, 10 are first year kids, and they are going to get beat up badly. By year end, they could easily say "no thanks" to even playing Curwensville.

[amlallstar]

He is good, but you can't rely on him to win games. I'd probably give him over 2,000 again.

[AMLDUDE]

He is good, but you can't rely on him to win games. I'd probably give him over 2,000 again.

Holland will pick up more yards than that because he is thier entire offense.

OK, here is my Curwensville rant, and I've thought about this a lot over the last couple of years, and have never come straight out and said it.

They have become more and more predictable. They are simply going to just feed Holland the ball. No deception in thier gameplan whatsoever. Just a simple thing of have Holland go left and run a counter right with the FB. They are doing absolutely nothing to decieve a defense. They could put the Greslick kid on the corner and run misdirection with him. He looks to be a decent back. When he does carry the ball, its because they have pulled Holland out and Greslick is a TB, the whole defense can follow Greslick just like they would if Holland where in the game. Just like the defense could have followed Greslicks older brother when he played and Holland was the FB (and Holland only got the carries that went striaght up the middle, so he rarely broke free) Curwensville has not shown much creativity over the years, but they used to run little dumps offs to Sipes and run split backs and give the ball to the FB on plays other than ones that ran right over the center-guard gap. They used to run misdirection with the QB, not anymore.

The only other thing they are going to do is throw the 30 to 40 yard jump ball pass to Zorger, and Zorger was preceded by Best/Shane Hoover, proceded by Jesse Hoover, proceded by Swatsworth, proceded by Gilbert, proceded by Records. That one throw has been 70% of Curwensvilles passing game for 10 years. A defense should just line up a DB over there, get him 12 to 15 yards off the line of scrimmage and tell him to not let the WR get behind you. Short of that, put 10 in the box. They throw nothing on the short, safe underneath stuff that really isn't hard to coach or execute.

Curwensville coaching philiosphy has become, we are going to show you what we are going to do, and you have to stop it, and if you stop it we know you are not going to stop it for a whole game, so we are going to keep doing it. Last year against Brockway. The rovers put 11 in the box, lining up their OLB's inside of the DE's and literaly played without a safety. Do you think Curwensville would try to run quick pitches wide or heaven forbid just run the TE down the middle of the field. Nope, and it made Curwensvilles coaches look like total idiots. They kept trying to block 10 guys with 7, and they just acted like they could not understand why it was not working. Brockway was giving away easy ways to beat their defense and Curwensville didn't even try. They just kept pounding the ball up the middle of the field for about 1 or 2 yards a clip, until they punted.

Curwensville is the one team in the area that has had the players to make runs into the state playoffs on and off over the last 10 years, but short of the one year when they were just absolutely loaded, they have never won a state playoff game, and it is the coaching, and the offensive coaching is worse now than it was 5 years ago.

If Curwensville continued the player development and strength program the have now (give credit where it is due, these kids are big, strong and as football players based on thier abilities couldn't be much better), but had the technical game coaching of a Simcoe (Coudersport) or Deflippi (Smethport). They would be a possible powerhouse in single A, and I think fans in the state would know there name similar as to how a Rochester or Southern Columbia is mentioned.

[Ghost]

Solid post AMLDUDE. What's up with the Tide? Seems like they just don't have "it". I thought they'd be blowing teams out right out of the gate.

[amlallstar]

AMLDUDE


I'm in total agreeance.

Cville is going to shoot themselves in the foot this year strictly because they refuse to open things up.

Pisarchick even said last year, that there is no way Holland will have 100 yards against that defense, and he was right. Brockway just clogged the middle and Cville couldn't figure out what to do.

[AMLDUDE]

I hate to be that critical, because I know how hard it is to coach HS sports.

Also, as I mentioned the Curwensville coaches might get more out of their players than any other coaching staff in the region. Every year they are able to reload with a lot kids you rarely heard of. They develope kids that can play, and it is a legit single A school. These kids aren't transferrring to Cville in 9th grade to play football, beyond all of that the coaches believe in what they are doing and get the kids to buy into it. That will always make a good team dangerous.

This year, I think they miss Best, Hoover and Dimmick a lot more than most would have tought. All were good athletes and those three added a lot to the team speed especially on defense, and in the return game. Their defense has been very weak early, even though they shut out Sheffield, it wasn't because Sheffield wasn't moving the ball, though I understand Cville really dominated on Monday.

Against a team like Port, Cville doesn't have the athletes in the secondary that will make big plays, and that is huge.

[cabloom390]

I totally agree with the post, ive been criticizing Cville coaching for years. Before they had the athletes to line up and run over everyone but they really dont have that when they get to tougher teams. I thought this year would be a very good year for Cville, better than last years team. My reasoning is they had there whole line back and some. To have a good solid team, you have to have a good solid line for Holland to run behind. They worry me now after the first 2 weeks whether this team will come together and play like they should. I think they will but i dont know whether it will be this week or not, if not they will get beat by Port this week. Cville has never started well when traveling and especially Saturday games, this game should be a fun one to watch.