[charlie22]

There is so much more to this than what meets the eye. There is not a right and wrong tot his. Jimmy's and Joe's come first. Then mold what you do to what they can do and coach them up in that system. It is not college where you can recruit players to your system (I.E. Georgia Tech). Like I said earlier, it is a waste of time trying to do things you are not capable of on offense because it puts your defense in a bad situation. Football has three elements that must work equally together for you to be successful. Knox had great success because they have great players. What happens when their skill is not what it was this year? There are a lot of strategic ways to win games with less talent. Over extending your self ability wise is not one of them. You talk about winning championships, you win championships by mastering your craft offensivly and defensivly. Don't let special teams beat you. All offensive sytems work when you have players. And the type of offense you run does not really dictate how well you stop other people. How good your defensive players and how hard your defensive coach works at stopping them determines that in my opinion.

This is all a matter of philosophy. If you believe in christianity you won't go to a muslim church. If you beleive in the option don't try to be a 5 wide guy. Teach and coach what you know.

Bob, I have to agree with Football1. I agree with you that all offensive systems work when you have the players. That's fine in the year or years that you have the players that are better, or much better, than your opponents. But how often does that happen? I'd say pretty rarely. And even then, if because of the system ran, your opponent is able, with it's lesser players, to more easily scheme to stop your O, you may lose even when you have the better system.

Before I finish typing this sentence, I know I'm going to get the "Highlands thinks they do everything best" response, but I'm going to type it anyway: I love the Highlands O system. When you have the O line and backs that can dominate the opponent's D, you can run out of it easily. Put two backs in there and you can run power O. When you have the QB and the receivers than can dominate the opponent's D, you can pass out of it easily. Because you can both run and pass out of the same formation, it's a much more difficult sytem to defend against. It's the same offensive system and formations year in and year out, but the plays called are based on the type and strengths of the players on the team as well as being based on the defensive strengths and weaknesses of the opponent. Look at what Highlands did to CovCath this past Friday. Offensive system and formations pretty much exactly the same as the first match up against CovCath. But this game, because CovCath was committed to try and stop the deep ball, Highlands ran the ball down CovCath's throat out of the same offensive sets that they used to throw the ball deep against CovCath in the first game.

You don't have to mold the players to fit the system; rather, you adjust the system and the plays called to fit the players.

If the mountain coaches do not adjust their philosophies, they will only win state in the extremely rare years when their players are way more talented than every opponent they play in those years. That's not going to happen very often. It's just not.