jtdc492 wrote:Seems like everyother team has a running back that is going over 150yds a game and some are going for a lot more. 200 yd games are common this year and few have gone over 300 yds and one went over 500. Now, I'm going to date myself here, but when I played from '80-'84 no one went over 200yds, and going over 100yds was a special nite. "Is the difference less quality. Less numbers of kids translates into a team with less overall speed which can devastate a team in 9man, I believe this to be the reason."
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GRIDIRON GURU wrote:jtdc492 wrote:Seems like everyother team has a running back that is going over 150yds a game and some are going for a lot more. 200 yd games are common this year and few have gone over 300 yds and one went over 500. Now, I'm going to date myself here, but when I played from '80-'84 no one went over 200yds, and going over 100yds was a special nite. "Is the difference less quality. Less numbers of kids translates into a team with less overall speed which can devastate a team in 9man, I believe this to be the reason."
Actually I think the opposite is true, back in 80-84 there were few co-ops, they were just starting to form in the mid 80's, most towns played with what they had and they did not have an over abundance of size, athletes, or speed, hence, lower offensive output. A lot of smaller schools did not have football and no co-op but had some great athletes that would have been great additions to any football team. I think of Binford, GSM, Crary, Aneta, Warwick, and a bunch of smaller towns that did not have football but had kids who would have been great football players, never got to play football in the late 70's to mid 80's now people are driving 50 miles one way to play football.
Back in the 80's the offenses where much more vanilla, If I can think back that far I believe every team we played ran wing I or split backs, double tight, Some teams ran some wishbone, Full house T and Wing T but for the most part pretty straight forward offenses.
In the early to mid 80's I would say that almost nobody lifted weights and if they did it was no where near the type of dynamic weight programs of today.
There were 200 yard rushing games back then but you never heard about them because it might have only been in the local paper or never reported. I know we had backs go over 200 yards both my Junior and Senior year and we sucked. That was way past your prime though it was 84and 85 LOL.
Coaching and rule changes have also made big improvments, back in the 80's there were a bunch a sick sadistic caoches who thought it would make you tough to work your butt off for two hours with no water and barely work on anything that had to do with football.
Now with the information age even really crappy coaches have information at their finger tips in a matter of seconds. They can see what good coaches do and what makes successful programs work.
Think back to the 80's if some one spread you out all over the field, the o-line could block with their hands instead of their forarms, if you had game film to study, if you could research and see how innovative offenses worked on the internet, if you had an explosive weight training regiment. If you had coaches who actually played the game of football, if you could have had all the best players in your county on one team.
The reasons are vast why teams are putting up big numbers and it does not supprise me one bit, and I actually think there should be those big numbers every year.
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