Watch my clinic presentation on using Motions, Formations and Shifts in the Flexbone Offfense. This was recorded at the Chicago area Flexbone Round Table on 4/6/2024.
The Run Down
00:00 – Intro/Breaking News
03:51 – Formations
17:30 – Motions
28:02 – Shifts
34:52 – Considerations
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all right thank you guys uh I hope my
voice carries uh I coached a 2hour of
frost practice this morning before
driving here so uh if I need to stop and
take a sip uh my apologies uh today
we’re talking about motion shifts and
formations uh these are three things
that in the last 2ish years uh that I
was at St Ignatius we decided to start
really implementing and playing around
with uh as actually just had the
conversation with a few people uh once
you run the offense for a long time and
those defensive coordinators see it year
after year uh they’re really able to
play those keys so we found shifts
motions and formations as a good way to
disrupt that
Rhythm uh give some false keys and be
able to give that defense something to
think about that’s not hey it’s Tri or
its Zone Dive Right all those base core
plays that they’ve been used to
defending that they felt like they were
comfortable uh in their rules on their
defenses in their
schemes uh so as coach mentioned uh I
run a YouTube channel uh called flexone
101 uh I was formerly at s ignacius uh I
am no longer there uh I’ll get to that
in a
second uh so just a little bit of
background about me on why I don’t know
I’m here talking to you and maybe it’s
important uh a little bit about my
background uh I grew up in Rochester
Michigan uh played at a suburban school
called Stony Creek I was the first class
all the way through I think we ran ver
uh but I played offensive Lind so I was
more worried about blocking the guy in
front of me than what was going on
behind me uh sorry I’m probably just
like most of your kids uh and also
always a good chance to throw up
embarrassing photos from the early 2000s
because thank God I don’t look like that
anymore uh after that I went to the
University of Michigan if the uh opening
slide didn’t give that away uh wound up
starting my coaching career at Madison
West High School in Madison Wisconsin uh
that’s where I first got
my introduction to option football I
won’t say we were good at it I won’t say
we did everything correctly uh but
that’s when I started watching Georgia
Tech games breaking them down trying to
understand what was going on and figured
hey maybe other people would find this
useful and then the YouTube channel
started uh from there uh my wife got
that supposed to be bigger uh my wife
got matched at Larry Children’s Hospital
I came down to live in the city uh was
looking at highlight videos of the close
by high schools to try to figure out
where to coach uh I open up the St
Ignatius highlight video and go hey
they’re running my offense and it’s a
mile down the street uh so I W up
coaching there for 6 years uh in that
time I did what everyone does moved a
little bit north in the city and then
moved to the northern suburbs uh which
then my 5 minute commute became
sometimes a 2hour commute uh when that
traffic sucked which you know I could
live without uh so as for this year I
mentioned I am uh now a free agent uh
and that is mainly due to the fact that
my wife and I are expecting our first
child in
July you
um it is a baby
girl still coming to grips with that uh
however my wife was like you are
absolutely not driving an hour and a
half into the City and home every day
and having a child so one of those
things had to give uh I’m sure we’ll
talk more about that later so into the
Crux of what we’re talking about
today um I’m also a huge tech nerd so
PowerPoints kind of my thing I’m sorry
uh as far as formations uh I think it’s
a good idea some people use these terms
interchangeably I think it’s really
smart to make sure we actually Define
what we’re talking about in each of
those areas um so the formation is going
to be what are you coming out in in the
initial huddle what are your reads who
are your eligible receivers right You’
got the last man on the line of
scrimmage is
eligible uh go catch a pass number
permitting that’s important uh for later
uh and four players in the back field
your quarterback and usually your B back
and two a backs if you’re running a
traditional FL
set our
motions uh one player can be in motion
at the snap of the ball that motion has
to be parallel to the line of scrimmage
or
backwards and our shift uh in this ship
multiple players can move where they are
who’s eligible who’s not eligible which
side of the field it does require you to
be set for a full second before you snap
the
ball now
getting to formations why are formations
important well or maybe some advantages
of using formations right it’s really
easy you come out two x’s 2 a a b it’s a
balanced formation you can run
everything out of it so why would you
stray from
that so the first is you can dictate the
defensive strength right you start
throwing in a tight end you put two
receivers on the same side uh you can
play around and instead of guessing
where the defense is going to be if you
know that the de coordinator is always
going to put his three technique to the
strong side well if you tell him where
the strong side is you’re no longer
guessing so you can make your play call
strong side or weak Side based on where
you know they’re going to
align that three technique or that one
technique right some de coordinators do
it by side some do strength some do the
player um so that’s part of your
scouting and figuring out how that
strength is going to be
called Next is to gain a numers
advantage while we’re balanced on an
offensive formation so are they so if
you’re able to move guys around whether
that’s two a backs on the same side two
x’s on the same side an X in a tight end
whether you’re able to move the B back
out you can create mismatches and
depending on how the defense adjusts or
doesn’t adjust able to as we used to say
bring another guy to the party
right so there are a lot of plays when
you’ve got guys on the backside who
maybe are runoffs maybe they’re just in
motion kind of eye candy sometimes you
can use that eye candy to help you out
in the play in your blocking
scheme uh creating schematic confusion
uh there are not a lot of defenses that
know how to say defend a fourman surface
uh they may not know if you’ve got two
x’s on one side and two A’s on the other
side how they’re going to debate that
and in the those two three 4
seconds that the defense is trying to
figure it out you can snap the ball and
that gives you a huge Advantage uh cuz
if they’re looking at their coach if
they’re looking at each other they’re
not looking at the ball they’re not
looking at their reads uh that’s when
big plays
happen and the last one is to break
Tendencies so
I uh I need to be very careful with my
language um previously at Ignatius I
think we had some very Ironclad
Tendencies right like if you watched our
film and you knew the certain situation
you knew exactly what we were going to
do so being able to use
formations um well being able to use any
of these really um not only can you
break Tendencies but you can give false
Tendencies and false Keys we talk about
those more later so some
examples so the first this is my
absolute favorite I’m sure this is
nothing new for a lot of you uh but
running over right putting those two A’s
on the same side put that inside a on
the line and put that defense in
Conflict are they going to Apex an
outside backer and give you a numbers
advantage to that side or are they going
to roll the corner over and wind up
overloading that side and allow you to
run to the back
side pretty
simple but from a formation standpoint
and I have this drawn up pretend we’re
running rocket I feel like that’s just
it’s a really easy play to run for well
the purpose I’m going to make uh it is
pretty easy to flex that vack out to the
opposite side and force their hand to
say you have to cover that beback you
cannot roll that
corner to the 2x side so it’s something
really easy and God forbid if they don’t
cover that beback throw them them all um
I know a lot of times when we would run
formations we would have different
aspects we didn’t necessarily have that
ready right we didn’t have a call we
didn’t have the quarterback understand
like if if no one’s out covering the
beback just throwing the ball uh but
that is a part of the offense that hey
even if it gets three or four yards
that’s all you really need right to stay
on on Target on track on script uh
assuming your beback can catch I guess
that’s a a
caveat uh for example two uh so if we
continue with the rocket example but
we’ll stay out of our base formation
right whether you call it spread whether
you call it Bas uh at ignatious we
straight up just didn’t call a formation
if we didn’t call it that’s what we
wanted uh again if we’re running rocket
your bb back is usually squirting out
the backs side uh sometimes you might
throw a screen to him but he’s there um
and instead of him just being eye candy
to The Backs side you can actually
motion him into the
slot so both of these examples you an
empty look uh most defenses only have
one check to empty so if you really want
to throw the ball or you know that’s
something that you can test and probe
early in a
game to understand how they play over or
to understand how they play empty now
you’ll know all right these are the
passing Concepts that might work against
that later in the game if we need
them for our next example
uh being able to cheat your playside
receiver
in uh we called it snug trim I’ve heard
you can play around with that split but
being able to switch that aack and that
X where your X or your number one
receiver is in the slot and your aack is
way
outside guess what your best receiver is
now being guarded by a safety and an
outside linebacker uh and that’s
probably a much better matchup that you
like versus probably their number one
corner uh and God forbid if they try to
bring that corner in and bring a safety
out uh those are the type of Miss
Communications and uh assignment
switches that we’re looking for as
they’re trying to communicate that you
can run a quick play uh especially if
your X can block you are able to switch
those assignments so you can still run
your full accompaniment of plays uh to
that side even though you don’t have an
attached aack
all right this is one of my favorite
examples uh so I was combed through a
bunch of Air Force film uh a little bit
of Harding film uh to try to find some
good examples because as much as me
drawing stuff up goes uh I’m sure seeing
it actually run in person sometimes uh
solidifies it a little bit so the first
thing I want to show is that we have a
four man
Service uh now why that’s important
you have your aack
outside you’ve got
your receiver as the last man on the
line of
scrimmage you have your tackle over and
what the defense doesn’t realize right
away is the end guy on the line of
scrimmage is your other
receiver so all of a sudden on that n
side they’re not paying attention to
that nub receiver they’re
honestly at this point they haven’t even
really overloaded to the fourman surface
so you could kind of take your pick on
where you want to
go but what winds up
happening is shockingly they throw the
ball uh and they wind up having the
tackle wide open if this works the way I
want it
to there we
go they he fakes a block just like we
saw the previous uh outside gear boot
he’s wide open intermediate behind the
corner so they wind up missing that
route um unfortunately a lot of the
examples I wound up using uh weren’t
exactly huge play but I figure they are
good for the sake of conversation that
you can see the idea that just putting
that defense in Conflict bringing that
receiver instead of split out or snug
lined up at tackle and forcing the
defense to have to realize that
is an advantage that you can
take uh the last I think is this my last
example yes no
so formation wise you’ve got a snug
receiver you’ve got an outside a in the
slot and I wish this went faster there
we go so notice that they have their a
in the back field one thing we didn’t
really talk about as far as formations
is changes in alignment off of your base
formation um if you watch air force a
lot that aback and sometimes both of
their AB backs will be anywhere from
touching the tackle sometimes there’ll
be a yard back sometimes there’ll be two
yards back sometimes they are damn near
even with the BB back in like an old
school T
formation uh that does create Tendencies
uh however what it allows you to do is
able to run uh if I remember correctly
we’ve got mid triple towards the snug
receiver you’re able to run it without
motion because he’s already in the back
field in the right
spot so just by changing those
responsibilities right if your X knows
how to come down and block and your a
can stalk and go to the outside you’re
still able to run your full menu of
plays to that side and all you all
you’ve done is change that
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look uh I will say on going moving the
aback back there has to be a
little
gamesmanship um because if you only
cheat your aack back say on mid- Triple
on Rocket um I can tell you Loyola
Academy picks up on that really fast uh
so your guys have to be smart enough to
know hey maybe I’m not involved in this
play I’m going to cheat my split back on
my own
so that I don’t give away that hey I’m
running that way every time I’m cheated
back uh and if you want to watch the
Ignatius uh playoff film uh you’ll see
what happens if you don’t do
that uh so where did I go
here ah
so perfect example I love when I ramble
right to the example I’m going to make
notice that there’s the abat that is all
the way back into the back field this is
usually the key
mid triple or rocket
away if you watch the defensive end on
this play right you can tell he knows if
that aack is back my responsibility is
to the outside and you will watch him
fly outside uh and be able to be run
underneath so those are the types of
games that you’re able to play
hopefully that’s all making sense I feel
like formations are a really easy way uh
with all of these things a lot of it
comes down to verbage what you’re
actually doing uh when we ran
our packages with running uh our aback
different sides uh we
used excuse me SAS saw was and wow so
strong a strong strong a weak we we a
strong we a weak uh is the easiest way
we could do it we could tag our
formation so that no matter what we were
in we could send those aacs different
places uh we use bow and boss for be out
W be out weak be out strong uh so that
you’re not putting in full new
formations you’re not allowing uh or
forcing your kids to learn five six
seven 10 new formations you’re able to
use what you already have and tag it to
move them around
uh of course there’s games you can play
off of that as
well now as we get into motions so some
of the reasons we like to run
motions uh is to gain a numberers
Advantage similar to formations you can
bring another guy to the party you can
add an extra blocker you can add eyes
and drag people if you’re faking a jet
and forcing guys to jump
outside um but if the defense doesn’t
react if they’re not bringing a guy to
your motion you’re basically cheating an
extra guy
over uh second is manipulating defensive
assignments
so if you go hard right you’re a big
mid- triple team you’re a big triple
Team Rocket right they’re used to seeing
that guy constantly going in motion and
knowing the play is going that
direction you can change that defensive
assignment where all of a sudden you’re
throwing in a twirl motion all of a
sudden he’s motioning the opposite
way uh being able to fake that jet and
put that D end in conflict is he a pitch
player or is he a jet player uh same for
that outside
linebacker uh something I
didn’t appreciate enough early on was
disrupting eye discipline right teams
work all leak against the triple right
here’s your key here’s what you need to
be watching right as soon as the puddle
is broken y get to the line hey that guy
goes in motion you’re doing X well what
happens if all of a sudden that guy goes
in Motion in another direction right
what happens they’re sitting there you
know they pop up they have to think
they’re already playing defense so we
know they’re probably not the smartest
players on the field and that gives us
an
advantage sorry you guys also here
defense uh and lastly uh giving false
keys so as a way of similar to Breaking
Tendencies right if they’re used to
seeing every time a guy goes One
Direction you run One Direction being
able to give a false key being able to
get guys flying the wrong direction
making guys uh you know coaches put
themselves in bad situations based on
their calls their blitzes their schemes
uh all very important for
Success so I think this is probably the
most basic that Ignatius we started
playing around with uh it could
technically be considered a shift uh
bringing the backside aack on Zone
dive uh across the formation now whether
you want to fake a jet and have him
continue on and lead to the outside of
your attached AAC that’s one way to run
it uh or you just really motion him over
inside your playside a back and you just
wedge it straight through the two gaps
uh that is what Air Force does here and
I finally fairly good success B he goes
he gets
set you’re running zone die Straight
Ahead uh I did I guess my subtitle of
the presentation uh my joke was always
we want up doing all this work uh to run
Zone dive uh I W up calling our offense
50 Shades of Zone dive dive because we
literally just dressed it up as many
ways as we could uh and we knew as long
as we had an attached aack somewhere uh
you know if we got in trouble they came
out something we didn’t know we audible
uh tried and true one of our
quarterbacks just called it bread and
butter that’s what we would have
run for a second
example uh similar to the formation oh
you know
what there was a good example I forgot
to put in here I’m going to have to talk
about that
uh defensive backs have to communicate
coverage a lot of defensive coverage is
based on all right I’ve got number one
to number two I’ve got number two to
number one right I carry number one if
he goes vertical so what you can do is
if you change who your number one and
new number two receivers are by
motioning your aack from one side to the
other of that snug receiver all of a
sudden those DVS are turning around and
communicating and not looking into the
back field or at their keys or at the
ball it’s something really simple
uh you can actually do it from the
backside uh of Zone dive as well I
forget if I actually threw that in
here okay
so we did not run a lot of basic trips
at Ignatius and by basic trips I guess
traditional trip flexbone trips uh but
out of this look most people would say
it’s really hard
to run say triple right mid triple right
rocket
right but using twirl motion with that
attached
aack all of a sudden now you have that
full accompaniment of plays so not only
are you giving a false key going away
with your motion but to have him come
back as a play caller you’re able to
have your full menu your chances are as
if you guys see anything like we used to
see that safety might sprinting with the
motion all of a sudden that playside
safety is now 5 seven yards out of the
play uh and able
to take advantage of that as
well so motion from the playside aack
this is the Harding national title game
uh I don’t have the all 22 of this game
uh also I apologize because it is uh
like most lower level football not the
best camera work uh but if you pay
attention to play side a and you can’t
actually see the safety in the play but
you can see his
shadow and what they’re able to do is
they’re able to run mid triple without
an aack and what they’ll do is they’re
going to run that plays side a back he’s
just going to motion away from the play
and what you’ll see is the shadow of
this safety is running and screaming so
hard in the opposite direction they
cancel him out they don’t have to
block that’s pretty good pretty good Jay
in motion the quick read and Pitch one
man to beat first down R up to the 24
string it
up so I don’t know about you guys our
receivers and our aack I would not say
are our strongest blockers on the team
uh so to be able to cancel out a
defensive back right where a guy where
you’re like yeah 50/50 maybe we get them
blocked but maybe he takes a good angle
just running him clear the opposite
direction is way more effective than
trying to
block oh I did talk about this all
right so when we have our Zone
Dive Right traditionally we would have
our a back right you want it to look
like triple you want it to look like
everything else you want that flow play
side uh I actually saw uh my hometown
team the Detroit Lions uh started
playing around with this a lot where no
they’re not Flex obviously uh but Aman
ra St Brown all of a sudden you would
see him take off opposite the
play and wind up just running straight
down the field after that so messes with
eye discipline gives you a false Tey and
God forbid if no one goes out and covers
him you can run a two-man route
combination on the backside out of play
action right you can run your post post
you can run your post wheel uh you can
run smash literally anything uh but I
think most times you will see that if
they’re paying attention to that guy
running the opposite direction it’s that
backside linebacker who might make the
touchdown saving tackle on someone dive
that is no longer there because now he’s
in
coverage so this gets a little bit tied
into what we talked about with the
formation oh excuse me
little bit with formation notice that
you got the aack in the back
field um I have never seen this and I
think it’s worth talking about while we
have a whole section on motion there’s a
lot of value to no
motion so we are nothing if not dogmatic
with we have our Cadence we have our
timing right we leave at this time on
our
motion sometimes if you are a big
audible team like were you know we would
say set check with the sideline defense
knows hey I don’t actually have to be
ready until you know for another 12
seconds so to be able to get up to the
ball get under Center run a play without
a Cadence without a motion is another
way that again messes with scheme messes
with discipline especially you guys
might see teams they like to stem their
dine right bring a linebacker down and
they all bump over they bump their
tackles in they bump their tackles out
if you can go run a play with no motion
all of a sudden you’ve got a guy who’s
up on the snap of the ball he’s a lot
easier to drive block than he would be
if he were down in a fourpoint
stance um I actually loved this
play I forget which way they run this
let’s take a look if I smart enough oh
high so the a back is in the back field
so they actually run mid triple instead
of having any backside he’s actually the
front side aack takes a half jab step
and because that
midline uh the midline mesh is so fast
all he has to do is take one step and
outside and now all of a sudden you’re
running mid triple triple everything
else with a playside aack all because
he’s cheated back with no
motion okay now getting into
ships ships are interesting uh and there
is well I won’t get into that too much
yet because I’ll talk about it later uh
shifts are really good for changing
formation
strength being able to move one player
two player four players and all of a
sudden you were strong on one side
become strong on another other side
forcing the defense to figure out gives
you an
advantage next being able to disguise an
unbalanced formation right just by
switching one or two players able to go
from a balance to an unbalance and
having a defense have to re react and
adjust before you can run a play becomes
very
important and lastly uh to reduce
reaction time
right again if hey if you’re doing this
uh I will tell you that the play clock
is not your friend uh to be able to have
to call the play have the players
understand break the Huddle get to the
line of scrimmage get the original
formation call Ship have everyone ship
get in the right spot for the full
second
count before that play clock ends uh
there was a you know early on it might
burn a lot of timeouts you might get a
little nervous you might take a few 5
yard penalties
uh but it is very imperative that if you
do want to incorporate this uh getting
in and out of the Huddle running to your
spots is very important because those
one or two seconds when your right
tackle is too lazy to run to the left
because he’s tired uh is the difference
between a big play and a
timeout so for this example uh this was
our bread and butter uh when we
had five
tight end Justin Scott uh that we used
uh if we ran him into the boundary and
we set our strength into the boundary we
had the defense set their strength into
the boundary and all of a sudden we run
him to the other side and get down and
run a play that’s huge cuz all of a
sudden you have an unbalanced formation
numbers to the field and a lot of times
nothing but space once you get to the
second
level uh teams do start getting smart at
this uh so we did experiment we played
around with shifting him to the field
and then immediately going back into the
boundary and just hammering the boundary
right if we could catch them in both of
those uh it led to good outcomes for us
cuz I don’t know about you guys we’ll
live in the boundary all day we will run
to the boundary 100 plays out of 100 it
does not bother us uh sure we’d like the
field and our aack would love running to
the field a little bit more but we knew
we were good into the boundary to get
our two three four yards every
play another example uh I thought this
was funny I’ve watched a lot of Air
Force film and I haven’t actually seen
them do this a whole lot so I don’t know
if this was a mistake on their part uh
or if this was actually
called but they just switched their a
so nothing crazy uh if you got teams
that are manned up if they’re try if
they’re straight up putting guys on your
aack um obviously a pitch
but if you got a dude one dude at aack
and one less dude at aback and you’re
like hey I really want to run this the
other direction you can just shift him
over
what you’ll notice there is
also I don’t know if I’ll play this
again uh the BB back while they’re
switching actually does his own shift
about a yard backwards uh that is a huge
tell for Air Force
that chances are they’re running his own
do CU he’ll take that extra step uh CU
that’ll come into play here in a
second so what’s going to happen here we
have a tight end to the right
uh there we go and we got our other
receiver we got both A’s on the same
side and our B back and what they wind
up
doing is they
shift so you’ve got the a back in the
back field coming up to be attached
you’ve got the other aack coming up onto
the line of
scrimmage so you’ve now went from a
three-man surface to a four-man surface
uh and if I recall correctly the defense
does not adjust at all to this
so you notice that outside guy
actually widens outside the widest
guy there was a 8T hole between those
two uh so by just that shift getting
that extra man surface opened up a whole
extra Gap worth of space for them to go
through
the last one I forgot to make this slide
and it was part of the reason I wanted
to do this presentation and that’s what
I get for waiting till 10:00 last night
to finish my
slides it’s another way to mess with
teams if they’re if you go over and they
don’t bring the
corner you can actually use a shift put
your backside aback on the line move
your uh inside receiver off the line and
now make him eligible cuz then they have
to figure out oh that receiver that
we’ve just been treating as an extra
offensive lineman can all of a sudden
now go out and deep for a pass um and
see them try to freak out uh and there
is a good chance with a lot of
these uh one example I wanted to put in
here is if you come out in some wild
ridiculous formation or you shift into
something chances are you’re going to
get that other coach to burn a timeout
right CU they’re going to want to see it
they’re going to want to understand it
they’re going to want to diagram it and
tell their kids like hey we haven’t
practiced Five Guys on one side like
what do we do and then you can either go
right back to it and take advantage of
that or you can save it in your pocket
for later in case you need it and run
away from
it so this is a lot of me rambling
actually you uh there is a lot of things
you can do there was a lot of
potential uh
but I wanted to make sure that this
isn’t completely free to install right I
think there it has a time and a place I
think there’s a lot of value to it um I
think it is very hard to live in uh for
a few
reasons so uh the first I called it
opportunity cost uh CU I’m a nerd in
like
economics but all the time that you
spend figuring out uh what is your
verbage how long are you going to
practice this
making sure the kids actually understand
it that’s a lot of time that is being
taken away from some of your bread and
butter right like could we get that much
better at outside beer could we get that
much better at our inside beer could we
get that much better at literally
anything and figuring out what that
value
is because if the value is yeah this is
going to help us and we got to well I’ll
get to that later but our kids can pick
it up it’s not going to be that
expensive to install great I highly
recommend it but if it’s taking away and
you’re messing up snaps and messing up
reads may not be worth
it the second one thing I didn’t touch
on is Personnel uh I’m sure we would all
love to have a 67 250 receiver who is
able to run deep on the outside and also
able to line up at tight end and block a
d end um most of those kids don’t exist
uh so what happens is you wind up having
to Personnel this right if you’re
shifting and using formations with a
tight end and your receiver
is 51 140 lbs uh is that really giving
you that much of an
advantage however you may Personnel it
and all of a sudden you wind up auding
or shifting into another formation and
now you have an offensive tackle lined
up at wide receiver because you didn’t
have a second receiver on the FI uh so
that’s happened to us more times than I
want to admit uh it
does give you some blockers uh so as a
play caller you have to
understand all right I have two aack on
what on one side what can I call what
can I not call or I’m motioning this guy
out of the protection where am I to be
uh I don’t have a receiver on the left
side what can I not
do because your play sheet almost
becomes hey what can I and can I not run
to each side out of these
situations uh because you don’t want to
run triple right not have a backside
aack and all the sudden you have a pitch
to no one and turn the ball over that’s
also
happening and lastly uh it’s a fun one
to end on I originally had it as kids
are dumb and last last night I decided I
want to be a little bit more positive
kids can be done right this offense
takes a lot to run it takes a lot of
rest to understand your dive key your
pitch key reading your closest safety is
it a two man two high defense is it a
one high defense all those is it a
seven-man box is it an eight-man box all
those things we ask our kids to do and
when you’re motioning you’re shifting
you’re using formations all of a sudden
they’re having to make all these
calculations they’re having to figure
all this stuff out in like 6 seconds
which at ignacious fortunate for as
smart as those kids are on paper some of
them really struggle uh and the hardest
part that we ran into is yeah you rep it
with your ones uh but your twos your
threes they may still be figuring out
how to run a post route so if your
number one goes down and all of a sudden
you have to throw away everything that
you just put in it’s because the kid is
too dumb to know whether he’s lined up
outside or
inside I really don’t want that to
happen to you guys cuz it is immensely
frustrating and you realize you can wind
up wasting a ton of practice
time uh to get this right so that’s not
to scare you away from it I do think it
has value uh but for each situation it’s
going to be different on whether you
have a team of seniors where you know
your install going to be a breeze and
you’re looking for new stuff versus hey
I know I’m a sophomore heavy team maybe
let’s get really good at our BAS stuff
and look at this in a few
years so with
that uh like to say thank you again I’m
Alex Carrick you can reach me there uh
like I said looking for a job uh so if
you know of anything if you’ve got
questions if you want cut UPS uh
honestly I I work intact during the week
you just want to like hang out on zoom
and talk ball I’m happy to do that as
well um thanks for having me
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Great video!