More on the A-11

[voiceoflg]

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=911196

[Mike L]

I cast you out, unclean spirit. The power of Christ compells you, be gone!

[voiceoflg]

LOL

I hope it is gone. A quick and painless death would be fine.

[Ed Hickland]

Originally Posted by voiceoflg

lol

i hope it is gone. A quick and painless death would be fine.

rip a-11.

[TXMike]

Don't be so quick my little chickadees...looks like the truly American "solution" may be on the horizon...HIRE A LAWYER!

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/...uarterback.php

Steve Humphries is facing 4th-and-very, very long.

A few years back, the San Francisco mortgage broker devised a football offense that forever altered the prevailing paradigm of who the head cheerleader is supposed to date. Humphries and fellow Piedmont High School football coach Kurt Bryan's A-11 offense features two quarterbacks -- and 11 eligible receivers. To keep the high school motif going, think of it as the shotgun spread offense x 1023.

In two seasons employing the offense, Piedmont -- a small, suburban school in an affluent East Bay community best known for its annual bird-calling exhibition on The Tonight Show and David Letterman (and Arsenio, that one year) -- won 15 games and lost only five. This year, the team went 8-2 and scored 33 points per game. Articles about the distinctive A-11 offense (that stands for "All 11" as in everyone is eligible to catch a pass) appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, and ESPN Magazine.

Naturally, High School sports' governing body is leaning toward banning it.

The National Federation of State High School Associations' rules
committee met last month and is expected to release its rules changes
for the 2009 seasion -- which were decided by secret vote -- sometime
in the next week. Humphries said he thinks his offensive system's
chances of survival are "50-50." But he talks like a man who knows the
score when he angrily sums up the governing body as "A bunch of
traditionalists."


Ironically, Humprhies' response to being dealt the black spot by the
governing body may well be the traditional Piedmont reaction to being
handed a setback -- call a lawyer. He told SF Weekly he may file a suit and seek "a federal injunction" -- and, truly, there is no shortage of lawyers in Piedmont.

Less bombastically, he postulated that Piedmont may secede from the
NFSH and play in an independent -- and A-11 friendly -- league, or even
work with the governing body to form a "sub-federation" of A-11 teams
(there are quite a few around the nation now, including Mission High
here in the city).

When asked if the school really felt it was worth seceding or filing
suit rather than just going back to a traditional offense and appeasing
the governing body, Humphries said school principal Randy Booker was
100 percent behind him. Booker hasn't yet returned SF Weekly's call.

But it would make sense. The A-11 offense, like the bird calling contest,
has gotten Piedmont plenty of glowing press -- and it doesn't require making a jackass out of yourself on Letterman.

[kdf5]

Ahhhh, California. Truly the land of nuts and fruits.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by TXMike

Don't be so quick my little chickadees...looks like the truly American "solution" may be on the horizon...HIRE A LAWYER!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

When my dad called it the land of, well, you know the saying, he wasn't far from the truth.

[ajmc]

For all the wailing, shouting, threatening and begging that happens on sidelines all over, not very many considered rulings ever get changed. Desparate and stubborn people will do what desparate people do, not matter how unsuccessful all their finagaling is.

As has been observed long ago, many times over, those responsible for the rules of the game must be painfully aware of this controversey and are expected to respond to it, one way or the other. That decision is expected shortly, and one side or the other, will likely be unhappy with the decision.

There may be resulting wailing, shouting, threatening and begging, but it will likely suffer the same fate as all the "noise" that periodically rises from different sidelines. To paraphrase an old saying, "When "noise" from a sideline is simply ignored, does it make any sound?"

[Blue37]

from the article, "and it doesn't require making a jackass out of yourself on Letterman."

I was not aware the location of the act mattered.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by kdf5

Ahhhh, California. Truly the land of nuts and fruits.

Originally Posted by RichMSN

When my dad called it the land of, well, you know the saying, he wasn't far from the truth.

We truly have gone into the Twilight Zone.

Yes, let's get the legal system involved...over high school football. Give me a break.

[asdf]

Voluntarily join an association, then threaten to sue them when your attempt to circumvent their rules (for profit) is challenged and possibly fails...


Makes all the sense in the world to me....

[Mike L]

I'm not sure about the Piedmont area, but all he has to do to run this goofy offense is play in an 8-man league. Down here we have a few teams with small enrollments that do just that. But that would involve acting like adults rather than stomping ones feet and insisting to get ones way.

[Welpe]

No such beastie as 8-man up here in the Bay Area.

[Mike L]

Well how about that? An opening within the rules KB can "exploit" to form his new league. All he has to do is get them all to play 8 man and the problem is solved. Odds on that happening? Anyone? Anyone?

[daggo66]

Originally Posted by ajmc

For all the wailing, shouting, threatening and begging that happens on sidelines all over, not very many considered rulings ever get changed. Desparate and stubborn people will do what desparate people do, not matter how unsuccessful all their finagaling is.

As has been observed long ago, many times over, those responsible for the rules of the game must be painfully aware of this controversey and are expected to respond to it, one way or the other. That decision is expected shortly, and one side or the other, will likely be unhappy with the decision.

There may be resulting wailing, shouting, threatening and begging, but it will likely suffer the same fate as all the "noise" that periodically rises from different sidelines. To paraphrase an old saying, "When "noise" from a sideline is simply ignored, does it make any sound?"

When long winded self indulgent posts are written that really have no point or anything of value to add to the discussion are ignored, will they continue to be written?