Spread offense

[QuoteTheRaven]

Wyomissing beat Aliquippa in the AA State Championship last year with the Wing T. Southern Columbia has won a ton of class A State Championships running the Wing T. And De La Salle from California, at one point had the nations longest winning streak of 144 straight games...and guess what offense they ran...the Wing T! In my oppinion the best high school offense there is. It utilizes 3 runningbacks and a quarterback as a duel threat. Its your ultimate decieving formation, ground and pound eating up clock, and gives your fresh legs to run the ball by distributing the ball to 3 capable runningbacks

[konjo78]

And a top 5 national team and continuing 3A state champion Bellevue runs the wing T.

[TheRealBleacherCoach]

So your saying an offense line averaging 190 pounds should run power game instead of utilizing their speed and running zone blocking schemes. The wing T is not effective if you don't have the personel. The spread will open the field and give your athletes room to use their speed in the open field. Personally I thonk your dumb not to run the spread if you have the personel. There is no defensive gameplan for speed. You either have the speed to match or you don't. So what it comes down to is run the offense that best fits your players and get them in the weight room in the off season.

[Manfred]

Kids don't want to push themselves to the weight room anymore. This, in my opinion, contributes to a LOT of the injuries we are seeing lately. FH had maybe a dozen kids lift in the offseason, and it showed.

[HSFootball88]

I know Portage has had a strong offseason program for a long time. I know they go to weight lifting competitions, 7on7 passing camps, summer workouts, and many other activities that keep the kids wanting to be there. Im guessing from what i hear about 3/4 of the team or more go to their summer workouts.

[Footballfan17]

I have heard that don bailey doesn't put a huge emphasis on summer weight lifting? Any truth to that Manfred? What ever he has done over his career obviously works.

[konjo78]

I know Portage has had a strong offseason program for a long time. I know they go to weight lifting competitions, 7on7 passing camps, summer workouts, and many other activities that keep the kids wanting to be there. Im guessing from what i hear about 3/4 of the team or more go to their summer workouts.

This is the same with Penns manor since 2007. Teams that commit in summer and spring do well in fall. Coaches and players need to see that at struggling schools

[HSFootball88]

I agree, and that is why teams like Rockwood can not field enough players to have a team. If they had summer workouts or other things, they could have atleast known they weren't going to have enough players before the start of the season.

[12HankQB]

I can see that argument but I live in the area where 90% runs spread offense but the 10% are usually state champions. What I gather from This is its Harder to defend what you don't usually play against and that any offense can explosive if ran correctly

I think Portage's offense explains this to a "T". Teams know we are gonna run the Wing-T with FullBack off tackle, Jet Sweep, Criss Cross Reverse and Toss sweep but we run it with such fluidity it's still really tough to stop even though the defense MOST of the time knows whats coming.

Sidenote Konjo: IUPtv taped the game last friday, is there anywhere online for me to watch it by some chance?

I loved playing Portage defensively. It is easy to read what's happening quickly. Really loved going against the Wing-T in the Lantzy game as well

[konjo78]

Same here. even when i watch wing t teams play from the sidelines i can just tell what play is going to be run. Offensive linemen have the biggest giveaways. Guards are by far the worst.