thought experiment

[DSMan]

some of the rules of the game I think would be interesting to implement

1) determinate game time - if game starts at 7, it ends at 9:30
2) maximum of 30 throws a game
3) 12 plays to get in the end zone

under this strategy, who would benefit the most from it and who would suffer the most? It probably wouldn't change too much but Holdiman's teams at Marshalltown would have been disadvantaged.

 

[paxregis]

You are really going through football withdrawal, aren't you.

 

[LukeFeddersen]

You would single handedly destroy marshalltown football

 

[paxregis]

You would single handedly destroy marshalltown football

It's not like they are tearing it up recently. Haven't beat anybody besides Mason City, Waterloo East and Newton since 2012.

 

[screwloose]

As Marshalltown alum, pax, don't be like that. You're better than that.

 

[BigHawk]

some of the rules of the game I think would be interesting to implement

1) determinate game time - if game starts at 7, it ends at 9:30
2) maximum of 30 throws a game
3) 12 plays to get in the end zone

under this strategy, who would benefit the most from it and who would suffer the most? It probably wouldn't change too much but Holdiman's teams at Marshalltown would have been disadvantaged.

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[BigHawk]

It would benefit the big, powerful teams. 30 passes a game is a decent thought but with all of the no huddle teams...they can run 80+ plays a game which would mean a predominantly run first offense.

Not many teams are going to run on Valley or Dowling consistently much less successfully.

Mandating the game ends at 9:30 would go one of two ways....huddling to slow the game down or no huddling to maximize opportunities.

I think the 12 plays to get it into the end zone would be a major handicap that forces play calling. Let's say you get pinned deep on a punt and then proceed to grind one out and on play 11 you have I.e. A second and seven...but being its play 12 coming...you are almost forced to,pass and defenses will know that.

I'm not implying you are saying this but I don't want to see high school football start devolving to arena league.

 

[DSMan]

I'm not implying you are saying this but I don't want to see high school football start devolving to arena league.

How would the 30 pass play rule turn it into arena league?

 

[paxregis]

As Marshalltown alum, pax, don't be like that. You're better than that.

No, I'm not. I'm an asshole when it comes to the facts. It was a dark day for Mtown when Dave Holdiman retired. He worked offensive miracles there and previously at Mason City.

 

[screwloose]

Asshole? We may be cousins then.

 

[DSMan]

No, I'm not. I'm an asshole when it comes to the facts. It was a dark day for Mtown when Dave Holdiman retired. He worked offensive miracles there and previously at Mason City.

couldn't you have the causal arrows going the wrong way? Maybe Holdiman retired because he saw the talent pool decreasing. After all, he was losing that one QB in 2011-2012 whose name escapes me.

 

[BigHawk]

How would the 30 pass play rule turn it into arena league?

I wasn't thinking of the 30 passes a game as arena league.....but if you implement time limits for games and limits on the number of plays per possession that is a little area a league..ish to me.

If people want shorter football games cut the quarters to 10 minutes....which I also am not a fan of.

Sioux city has an arena team and one year defenses had to raise their hands when the defender was blitzing....ick....keep football...football.

 

[screwloose]

BigHawk, there were two really good quarterbacks in Marshalltown in the last ten years or so. Tyler Peschong and Blake Gimbel.

 

[BigHawk]

BigHawk, there were two really good quarterbacks in Marshalltown in the last ten years or so. Tyler Peschong and Blake Gimbel.

I'm not following ???

 

[screwloose]

Sorry, dude. It was DSMan who the names were escaping...my bad.