OT:A-11 offense could be the future of football

[colvegas]

These guys may be on to something.http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=825031

[Sting]

Good find. At some point you have to get under center when you get close to the goaline, that's the only problem that I see with the formation. Florida can run a goaline out of shotgun because they stack the backfield with backs in front of Tebow, but being spread out like they are in the video, I just think that they have to get under center or bunch 'em up close to the goaline.

[Solidice]

Quote: Originally Posted by stingmgt

Good find. At some point you have to get under center when you get close to the goaline, that's the only problem that I see with the formation. Florida can run a goaline out of shotgun because they stack the backfield with backs in front of Tebow, but being spread out like they are in the video, I just think that they have to get under center or bunch 'em up close to the goaline.

Texas Tech doesn't use a "goal line" either.

[xxjgbxx]

my hs team played another school that used this when they would go for 2 pt conversions, but they ran a screen out of it

[MUTTS]

What they do with this offense is exploit the "numbering exception" rule that exists in high school football on punt formation plays. By going out of punt formation, they can have linemen without jersey numbers 50-79 so it confuses the defense as to who is/isnt eligible. We touched on it very very very briefly at out June officials meeting but I got the feeling there has been some interest in this offense in New York state. I'm sure I'll here more when we resume meetings in 1-2 weeks. I got the impression from the rules interpreter that at some point there would be rules changes related to this. Again, I havent spent but a few seconds looking at it, but I'm sure I'll get to know it better soon.

Tony

[RAZRr1275]

I was just about to post this. You beat me to it. I saw it on the frong page of yahoo when I was checking my email. It think that this offense is really cool.

[Deltron]

I heard of this before and while it's legal at the high school level in certain states, I believe it is against NCAA rules.

[trick02]

yeh it saying at the end that it will be the norm in 50-100 yrs makes me laugh. Its a creative idea to exploit the rules to make a bad team decent.