HS Trick Play, Part 2

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Originally Posted by rockyroad

Hmmm...since when has a direct snap play been illegal?? If sending our QB in motion is illegal we will stop doing it - that's the reason I asked the question in the first place...

And as for playing the game "straight up", that's a pretty ballsy comment from someone who has never seen me coach or seen my team play...we have never run this particular play in a game, and have practiced it maybe 5 times all season. But since it's on our play sheet, I wanted to make sure it was legal - seems it isn't so it will come off the play sheet.

I coach at a small private HS - we had 20 kids to start the season, have lost two to injuries and have played the last 4 games (with two more to go) with 18 players (playing 11-man football)...my kids are some of the gutsiest, hardest-hitting kids I've ever been around...they play hard and they play well.

And as for wheteh or not you respect me as a coach, all I can do is shrug...

I don't understand why the number of kids on a team comes into a discussion of legality and ethics. Hopefully, lack of numbers is not an excuse for trying to deceive your opponent. Whether a play is legal or not is not the same as if it is ethical or not to deceive your opponent. Deceptions occur in real life even though they are legal. Sounds like with the hard-hitting gutsy kids that you have that you won't need to rely on deceiving your opponent. Playing hard and playing well is all you can ask of them.

Continued good luck in your coaching.