So Far So Busy

It's almost been ridiculous lately. The past two days I've been getting barely 6 hours of sleep, getting a little anxious for football and the upcoming school year.

The past couple of days I've been spending my mornings at the school, waking up early to attend meetings with the coaches and getting this work program for the seniors in order.

Early this morning, we finally passed out equipment to our 8th graders. The anticipation and the expectations are so high with this team that I'm pretty excited about the upcoming season.

This year, I'm doing things a little differently, especially in the playbooks. Instead of 5-6 formations, we have decided on doing only two (so far), the I-Tight (which I code named "Indy") and the Flex-Bone. We will not have any split outs or anything like that -- we're going to concentrate on the running game (probably 80% of our plays will be runs), and later on, we'll include some bigger pass plays with another formation.

Another of our main focuses is to try to get the players to "know" the plays. If we can run them day-in and day-out with no problems, then we're going to be sharp. Some main questions that we are going to address is how is a specific play going to be run against a 4-4? A 5-3? A 6-2?

We just have to be aggressive, physical -- none of this finesse stuff. Push some people around! If you get knocked down, don't be scared ... punch 'em in the mouth! First middle school game: a home game on the 7th of September.

The varsity has a scrimmage this Saturday morning, which will be extremely satisfying to watch, considering that we've got one of the best backs in the area, although our offensive and defensive lines were depleted from graduating seniors.