[RunItUpTheGut]

Why? And I'm not being flip here, either. I would really like to hear your rationale.

I'm looking at this strictly as a regional premise.

First off, teams like Highlands can platoon, and it work. Its worked for a while. Its also unstoppable to team that play almost every kid both ways that aren't very well conditioned to begin with, but lets look at "mountain" football for example.

To break it down, I don't think a lot of coaches are capable of setting up a platooning offense with success in this part of the state. Platooning players takes a lot of research, player breakdowns, and the most important thing, really smart and intuitive players.

It is to easy to get players confused. Early this season while I was watching Auburn play Alabama and Florida State, did you notice that in the hurry up, they were platooning players like crazy, all while holding up signs with something like this....

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This was obviously designed by the coaches to make it easier for the players to understand and harder for others to decipher and pick up on there plays. That takes a LOT of preparation and getting 16 and 17 year olds to be paying close attention so they know what formations they will be in on and what they will be doing in hundreds of different situations is extremely hard without complete dedication.
Call it an advanced futuristic form of football, as this was just 10 years ago, but this is the reason we see teams around here run the ball 90% of the time or more. Its easy, its fast, every player has one assignment and I think coaches either cant or wont convey a complex scheme to a team when the coach himself doesn't even understand it.
A lot of coaches wont take those risk and what would be a couple of bad, complicated years for the risk of losing there jobs on something that may or may not work against there competition.

Don't get me wrong, I think platooning can be very effective, I just think it depends on what you have to deal with to get it right.