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62 stack my @$$

posted 15 years ago by capablecarl
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Terrible strategy, run goal line on every play. Yeah, that'll work.

I would play action fake and screen pass my way up and down the field and run up the score on this imbecile. How could a D-1 school even consider a coach so tactically incompetent? I know it's Cal Poly and not a real football school but for crying out loud!

And I think Nickerson needs a hearing aid. He's always asking his players to repeat themselves.

Nickerson: Are we quitters?

Team: NO COACH!

Nickerson: What?

Team: NO COACH!

Who does this showboat think he is, Louis Gossett Jr. in "An Officer and a Gentleman"? That style of coaching went out with leather helmets.

His cute wife should leave his sorry @$$ and try to find that dude she really wanted to marry back in high school. Maybe she wouldn't be stuck in Ampipe right now with her wagon hitched to this bust out.

[–] bigcat20 15 years ago

Yea, i mean why not just draw on the board this play where you have 5 wideouts and they all run down to the endzone and the qb throws it as far as he can, yea do that on every play coach. I was wondering what Craig Nelsons football back ground was till i saw him draw up that defense.

[–] creegah-3 14 years ago

You can't be serious. Every single coach in our conference does the "I can't hear you" bit. Just like most defensive coaches will put 11 men on the line. Why? Because 80% of high schools have no passing game.

[–] Eels14 14 years ago

Excuse my ignorance I'm a rugby league fan, does a goal line defence mean you have no defenders back enough to break up a long pass? Ie just one straight line of defenders.

And why run the play on your goal line in terrible conditions. PS2 NFL Madden will teach you that. Coach Nickerson is dumber than a computer game.

[–] stones78 14 years ago

really bad call by the coach there; just qb sneak. I was even shaking my head at the tv at the stupid call. Bosco shoulda kicked his ass in the bar.

[–] vampslayer33000 14 years ago

If high schools don't have a passing game they shouldn't call their quarterbacks "Rifleman".

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[–] DrDanielChallis 13 years ago

6-2 stack is still used to this day in NFL defenses where they put their best two players at DE, especially for edge containment. It has to be lots of blitz and stunts, and you have to dominate, otherwise, you give up a TON of yards. Sometimes, it can also be known as a 4-4 because of 2 of the LBs alignment

No help from Harold

[–] bccoolj 12 years ago

I believe the movie explained why Coach Nickerson designed the goalline defensive strategy--to contain Alexander, the runningback for Walnut Heights. Alexander was quick and strong once he got started, but as Nickerson explained, when Alexander got to the line, all he'd find was a pile of bodies, which would slow him down. If Alexander tried to run around the sides, the linebackers would get him. It seemed the strategy worked well except for one long run Alexander scored on (a draw play). And, it appeared late in the game Ampipe changed their defensive strategy and spread out more, as to anticipate more passing by Walnut Heights, which they did and moved the ball effectively to the goal line (and Stef's interference call). Then Ampipe went back to the goalline defense and stopped Alexander on multiple plays. As the story went, Nickerson's strategy was effective. But nobody expected the Ampipe fumble on the last play would change the outcome of the game. [Yeah, it should have been a quarterback keeper!]

But, just like what another comment on this thread said, high school football doesn't tend to have strong passing attacks and resorts to more running attacks, save Ampipe's Rifleman which connected on one big pass play for a TD. So, it makes sense to me that Ampipe's defensive strategy of 6-2 stackmonster throughout the majority of the game for the single purpose of containing Alexander, which was accomplished overall.

[–] jefgg 11 years ago

Nickerson was the genius who called a hand off on the last play of the game instead of having "Rifleman" (who barely threw) take a knee. Then Nickerson lambasted poor Salvucci for fumbling.

Did Nickerson have any assistant coaches? I don't remember seeing any.

Nickerson seemed like the typical douche bag coach. They act like they are infallible. They would rather win than lose, but their real priority is getting brown nosed by players. And coaches like that seldomly move on to the next level.