There's an entire chapter on Pulaski Academy's acceptance of risk in my friend Toby's book "Scorecasting".
awesome, i really enjoy stuff like this! used to have a cool book about strange coaching in the early days of football, really cool stuff
reading that i thought it was very interesting and a good way to level the playing field against bigger schools. then i watched his qb and realized, it works cause he had the best/fastest player on the field. the onside kicks are just lucky breaks, but still pretty interesting none the less.
Were I a coach I would definitely do all kinds of stuff like this. I might not be successful at it, but that's the sort of coach I'd want to be. barfo
When I play Madden, I always go for it on 4th down and I always go for the 2 point conversion.... I'd be fired within two or three weeks in the real world.
I don't know... going for it on 4th down is fine with me. You figure you have over a 50% chance to convert. If you punt... you concede a TO and sure you have to calculate the yards you move them back... and then their return... and then the avg yards they'd make it back etc etc... but it just seems to me that going for it on 4th down is not a bad option given how often you can convert. Now the onside kicks on the other hand...
There's times to go for it on 4th down and then there's times where your just making a joke out of the game and are about to get so buried that you'll eventually quit the game because the score will be get so bad.
Yeah, I guess. I didnt read the article. I'm a big Chip Kelly fan, but I think he even pushes envelope sometimes on his 4th down approaches.
well, his premise is that in the high school game, his punter can only maybe gain 30 yards of field position, so if he can convert at a decent pace, it is statistically beneficial to go for it at all times. this also gives his players 4 chances to get a first down every time, and they know it in the back of their head, 3rd down isnt the last shot he also doesnt ever return punts, as the probability of a fumble at his level is greater in his mind than the potential of a return just read it lol i dont think his strategies would work as well at higher levels though
Yeah, that sounds like it might work in junior high football. Thats putting a lot on a teams shoulders and screwing them over real quick though.
