Does this site ever discuss football?

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

If you considered only the coaches of children's football being played under Fed rules, you'd see a lot more pushing of the envelope than you ever see in college. For instance, that was the primary place for the development of "not ready" tactics that both Fed & NCAA then saw necessary to legislate specifically against. I don't know what impelled Fed to legislate against 2 forward passes in a down, but I bet it started with children's football. If these things stayed confined to children's play, Fed would see no need, but they percolate up to HS level.

I am not talking about just pushing an envelope, I am talking about having enough time and energy to know the current rules and find a loophole. Most coaches are not going to do that very well unless they have nothing else better to do than just coach. Youth coaches do not make a living only on coaching.

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[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I am not talking about just pushing an envelope, I am talking about having enough time and energy to know the current rules and find a loophole. Most coaches are not going to do that very well unless they have nothing else better to do than just coach. Youth coaches do not make a living only on coaching.

Then you'd be surprised at the proportion of advances in many fields that are made by amateurs.

But even if you don't count the amateurs, most of the tactical advances in football that came to be popular in college and/or the pros debuted in high school. It's an enormous laboratory out there. And among those who straddle a fence, some try things out in the lower-stakes field before trying it in the higher-stakes one. For instance I knew of a couple HS coaches who'd experiment with stuff in women's football.