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We have a team in our league that is currently at the top of the table and one we are chasing. I took over as OC this year. On film, I noticed they have one smaller DB. We have two strong, athletic kids, and I want to challenge this kid to play football on his own. They run a 5-3 with very athletic outside linebackers. Do we think a 5-yard cushion is enough to run a stand-up, or what's a good way to cheat this to ensure it's not a pick-6? Is it start wider and run it, then have our WR turn back outside? I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts here. I want to make this as safe as possible. Would one option be to just put them off the line and have them motion inward?

First scrimmage today. Kids were missing blocks left and right or they hit a kid and hold it a second tops. I'm guessing it's a combo of feet and technique. Anyone had thoughts on it?

I’ve been put in charge of our offense for the season. Is it too much of a dick move to coach the other coaches. Effectively I want them to do certain drills to teach our blocking scheme and rep it so we are efficient? I need to be with the skill positions so I need to outsource blocking. We have 4 practices to install something so I want to be very tactical.

My vision. Explain the two plays we are learning today. Walk through what will happen and then break for individual. Then come back to run it together.

I’m wondering if I’m overthinking it, but I’m wondering if I should move my kid to RB. Last year he played TE and had a couple TE reverse TD. We just had practice tonight and he is in the top 3 on speed. The other kid next to him was a RB last year and had too many fumbles.

My son is also a nice 7 pounds under the weight limit. He’s big and physical, fast. I thought he would be a WR in this offense but maybe I should just have him split carries at RB. I’m worried it will look like Daddy ball though.

Had beers with the head coach of our 10U team last night. He asked me to take over the offense, but practice starts this week, We won't install for two weeks as we sort out teams, but I'm trying to design the offense that moves us into modern football. WE play our first game in a couple weeks, so I want to get to the point that we have 3 runs and 3 passes for the first game.

Would you consider using tradtional position names like X, Y, Z, H, etc or I was debating using real names like Rex for the Right WR and always have him on the line. Leo for the Left WR always on the line. Trey for the right TE and Till for the Left TE, but they would always be off the line. I'm thinking this is easier for the kids to remember? Thoughts?

My thought is to add motions or newer formations like Trips/Twins, etc as we go, but let's get some basics down first.

Does anyone have any 12 personnel playbooks they can share? I’m curious on blocking assignments as well for odd and even fronts.

I need a challenge for a project, and I'm curious what things you argue about that you wish you had the data easily at your fingertips to answer?

My son just wrapped up his 12U season and by the end it just felt like a marathon. They played in multiple leagues and I'm happy we are hitting a break. Something just doesn't feel as fun anymore with the games and I'm dreading our road trips next year as we move to the national leagues. We played some 11v11 this spring and I absolutely hated watching it compared to 9v9. My son is really good, but I'm sort of hoping next season is his last. I know he wants to play football as well, but I said your body couldn't handle both sports at the same time. I love that football is local, one game a week, filters to high school and we are done. Soccer is exhausting with the rankings, leagues, travel, etc.

Has anyone else felt like this?

Last night I encountered a new one. My PG was cooking this team, trying to press us, and their big adjustment was to face guard him. Now I've seen face guarding before, but in this case, they just let the kid hug my point guard, even 30 ft from the ball. Two arms out on each side of him so he couldn't move.

I said nothing the whole game because I wanted to see how my PG responded; he's in 4th grade, and this was a 6th-grade game. We had no subs, and this was our second game in a back-to-back.

2 minutes to go, he gets injured/cramped up. I told the ref maybe that doesn't happen if he isn't carrying a guy and being hugged the whole court. Not my best moment, but I felt like the injury was preventable with 1-2 foul calls to loosen it up. Not one off the ball foul was called.

Looking back I wonder if I should have set up a couple plays to do some aggressive back picks on the face guarder to just loosen him up or give him something to think about. How would you approach it? I want my kids to learn to face adversity but how

Note - we didn't have the firepower to win this game. So it's not sour grapes.

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These aliases come from different domains. In Outlook for Mac, I can't get the From field to show up in legacy Outlook, and I can't choose my alias in the new Outlook for Mac. Has anyone successfully done this?

I'm considering moving my son to a new travel basketball club to help him continue to develop, but I'm torn about whether it's the right move.

I'm torn because he is a featured player for his current team. He plays Point Guard, so he is involved in the offense all the time. He makes more decisions each game than probably all the other kids combined. I have been really happy with this growth over the last couple of seasons.

I might be looking because I feel like his teammates are holding him back from playing at his full level. Currently, they are in a bronze/silver setup because they have kids who aren't ready for the aggressiveness of a gold-level game. When we do play in those gold-level games, my son holds his own, but the rest of the squad really lacks the basketball IQ or awareness to play.

I have another older child for whom we had a very similar setup in soccer. I ultimately chose to move my older child to a team playing at a higher level, and it was a real unlock for him. I'm contemplating the same thing for my younger son now. I think he needs more reps against more athletic kids and faster game play to help him continue to develop. The challenge is that I love his coach, and his coach has a history of developing winning teams. He has a long history as a coach for a school, so I know he knows what he is doing.

I don't care about the "wins" just what is going to continue to stretch him. Is he better be the focal point for a lower team now (He's only 10) or would be best served after a couple years in this program to try and make a jump where the talent around him would be much higher.