pythagoras
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Only after you find my "little red sports car"
Revisiting The Fake FG Play
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Only after you find my "little red sports car"
MikeyLikesIowa
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A red Volvo 240 should be easy to find.
HawkGold
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Some around here are really idiots. This one probably isn't so geometrically advanced.
ArvadaHawk
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Hot damn I still get chills watching highlights of that game. Stanley was an absolute stud that game.
ArvadaHawk
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it's actually pretty simple. It looks confusing but it's pretty simple. The guy in motion, the punter and everyone to the right of kluver are in the backfield. everyone to the left of kluver (except the guy furthest left) are the linemen.
pythagoras
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HawkGold
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We need a comedy night.
99topdawg
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I argued with an official once during a game I was coaching that a team had 5 in the backfield (they had a QB, 3 RB's and a WR in motion at the snap). He said, "a team must have 7 on the LOS, but there's nothing in the rule book about how many they can have in the backfield". I said that, if they had 5 in the backfield, they either had 12 on the field, or 6 on the LOS. He told me to learn the rules.
hawkeyebob62
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So, which one was reffing the game, Gold or TK?
The Big LeHAWKski
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Guys, months from now when you're feeling down about something - JUST REWATCH THIS CLIP!!
I've seen it maybe 25-30 times now and I still yell out loud in my excitement every time!
tksirius
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WTF are you talking about?
Only Iowa message board fans could turn a celebration of a great football play into an anti-intellectual and anti-everyman argument... 
You can appreciate the play's perspicaciousness whether you know the rules or not. It was definitely something from out of the old Hayden Fry days. I knew what they were doing because we ran the same play on every field goal. Line up that way and check the defense. If the opponent doesn't cover your eligible receiver, get set, and throw it to them. If they do, you change the play and kick the field goal.
We also ran a fake reverse kickoff return on every kickoff reception, and a double-halfback-fake-screen-to-qb-pass that sounds like it would take forever to develop but somehow just worked, a weird play where the center put the ball by the gaurd's foot so the guard could run a draw, various direct snap runs with two rbs split on either side of the qb, some fake counters, where the run was delayed to read if the lb followed the pulling guard, etc. My coach liked trick play's. There was one per game at least.
I'd like to see a lot more of them from Iowa on first and ten. Occasionally trying to catch the other guy napping doesn't seem like it would hurt much. I don't think Iowa should become a gimmick offense, but maybe forcing defenses to guess a little bit would slow up the run blitz.
I'd love to see a play-action middle screen today, with the way Wisconsin comes after the run.
You can appreciate the play's perspicaciousness whether you know the rules or not. It was definitely something from out of the old Hayden Fry days. I knew what they were doing because we ran the same play on every field goal. Line up that way and check the defense. If the opponent doesn't cover your eligible receiver, get set, and throw it to them. If they do, you change the play and kick the field goal.
We also ran a fake reverse kickoff return on every kickoff reception, and a double-halfback-fake-screen-to-qb-pass that sounds like it would take forever to develop but somehow just worked, a weird play where the center put the ball by the gaurd's foot so the guard could run a draw, various direct snap runs with two rbs split on either side of the qb, some fake counters, where the run was delayed to read if the lb followed the pulling guard, etc. My coach liked trick play's. There was one per game at least.
I'd like to see a lot more of them from Iowa on first and ten. Occasionally trying to catch the other guy napping doesn't seem like it would hurt much. I don't think Iowa should become a gimmick offense, but maybe forcing defenses to guess a little bit would slow up the run blitz.
I'd love to see a play-action middle screen today, with the way Wisconsin comes after the run.
Only Iowa message board fans could turn a celebration of a great football play into an anti-intellectual and anti-everyman argument...
You can appreciate the play's perspicaciousness whether you know the rules or not. It was definitely something from out of the old Hayden Fry days. I knew what they were doing because we ran the same play on every field goal. Line up that way and check the defense. If the opponent doesn't cover your eligible receiver, get set, and throw it to them. If they do, you change the play and kick the field goal.
We also ran a fake reverse kickoff return on every kickoff reception, and a double-halfback-fake-screen-to-qb-pass that sounds like it would take forever to develop but somehow just worked, a weird play where the center put the ball by the gaurd's foot so the guard could run a draw, various direct snap runs with two rbs split on either side of the qb, some fake counters, where the run was delayed to read if the lb followed the pulling guard, etc. My coach liked trick play's. There was one per game at least.
I'd like to see a lot more of them from Iowa on first and ten. Occasionally trying to catch the other guy napping doesn't seem like it would hurt much. I don't think Iowa should become a gimmick offense, but maybe forcing defenses to guess a little bit would slow up the run blitz.
I'd love to see a play-action middle screen today, with the way Wisconsin comes after the run.
Sounds like you would love the new Purdue coach:
https://www.sbnation.com/college-fo...purdue-trick-play-jeff-brohm-fake-flea-ficker
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...lermakers-just-big-ten-most-entertaining-team
They just keep pushing the boundary of how many "trick" plays they can run, and they never really seem to be pushing up against a point of diminishing returns. It seems a bit like what some NBA teams are doing with jacking more and more 3-pointers. It seems antithetical to what the game normally has been, but it has worked.
I think both the NBA thing and the tempo trick play thing are symptoms of the increasing general athleticism of the species. I read an article that studied foot pressure of athletes while jumping, and running. The conclusion was that if you translated the jump pressure to running, humans could reach top speeds of over 40 mph on foot. We are nowhere near to the top of unassisted human performance yet!
pythagoras
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P.S. It was a fake punt
