[bob green]

here is some more food for thought. Power running teams are physical and hard to deal with in the line of scrimmage. Spread teams are more finesse but much more difficult to deal with in the perimeter. Does it make sense to play more to your teams strength? Spread teams like Highlands gets the best of both world because of the number of players they have. Mountain teams play the best 11, where they have a best 22. Not just Highlands, but teams in that category. One down fall of being a spread team is keeping you players physical up front because of the nature of the offense especially if your lineman play both ways like most mountain teams. IE South Laurel threw the pill around for years and it made them less physical defensively and cost them a lot of wins because they could not stop any one. Plus if you have to play people both ways do you need to make the game last longer of shorten it so that you have some gas in the 4th quarter?

Balance is what we all want, and you have to be able to complete passes at the right times. But that has nothing to do with a change in philosophy for teams like JC or Whitley, or Bell, or who ever this concerns. A physical team can make it hard on a finesse team and vise versa.