Illegal Formation?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by tomes1978

Exactly right! I was a youth coach for 11 years before I started officating. Teach the kids the fundamentals that they will use the whole time they are playing football and you will help that kids football career a lot more than teaching them trick plays.

That's the mistake you and a lot of other people in youth football have: assuming the kids will have a football career! I assume the truth, which is that most of the kids will never play organized tackle football much past puberty -- and that we're here for all of them to have fun, not just those who go on to have something that could be called a "football career". And the kids find the trick plays that work only with beginners to be Fun with a capital F. You think those are primarily devised by coaches to stroke their own egos? Look at the games only or mostly children play, especially those that they make up themselves; they loooooove tricks of all kinds, to the point where some of the games they play are mostly about tricks.