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realized why I was in coaching. Billy Graham once said that “a Coach will impact more young people in a year than the average person does in a lifetime”. I believe that is the reason and is still the reason for being in the position that I’m in at Catawba College. ” NCC: WHAT IS YOUR FUNNIEST
NCC: WHAT WAS YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING COACHING MOMENT? “ In 2008, we finished the season 11-0. We ended up having to forfeit 4 of our wins due to an ineligible
COACHING MEMORY? “ For many years, we had discussed using a fake punt that was quite deceiving and a little unorthodox. We never implemented it into the game plan, so it was questionable if
player. Ironically, he came to us from our county rival, and he was promoted from one grade to another. The catch was he had too many absences which should have not allowed him to be promoted, but their administration did otherwise, and I didn’t catch it. We were fortunate that he came out late and had to sit out a couple of weeks on top of that. So, we had to look at every game to see when he was dressed and forfeit those games. Certainly not one of my favorite memories. ” NCC: WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE PLAY OR STRATEGY? “ We hung our hat offensively as a triple option team and defensively as a 3-3 stack attacking team. We felt this made us different than most typical offenses and defenses. Therefore, you had to take time to prepare for us differently from other opponents. My favorite play was “Trap”. I don’t care where we are on the field; what the down and distance might be; what the score was at that time---it was my “go to” play. It wasn’t a secret, and we ran it well. I still believe that it should be in every offensive playbook. ”
it would work. I finally gave in late in the 2017 season. We worked it in practice and carried into our final game. The officials were made aware of the fake in our pre-game meeting and were told to expect the possible fake if we called for a “pooch kick” from our sideline. The ball would be snapped to the punter who would swing his leg as if he were punting the football. As he did this, he would toss the ball underhanded as high as he could down the field. The two end men on the line of scrimmage released downfield with one designated as the receiver and the other would be his blocker. The entire punt team called out “Peter” which is commonly used as an alert word for the return team to get away from the ball. The opposing team did avoid the ball, and our player caught the ball giving us a successful fake. Sometimes, it ok to think outside the box !! ”
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