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Q:
Not only do we not have the size of most CS8 opponents, we don’t
always seem to have as much overall team speed as they do either,
especially at the skill positions. I’ve kind of thought that
sometimes we might need a little more razzle-dazzle, more trickery,
more ball fakes, bootlegs, etc. to offset the strengths of our
opponents. How will you interject those things into the system here?
A:
That all starts out with basic fundamentals. If they’re doing it
right from the beginning, they’re only going to get better as time
goes on. I need a quarterback that's going to be a great ball faker.
He’s going to have a lot of steps to take, a lot of little moves
before he hands off that ball. He has to be savvy and be the
decoy-type guy in the long run.
Running
backs have to be just as convincing. If they take a fake and dive
over the middle, we hope that two guys tackle them and take
themselves right out of the play, and then we’ve got another back
with the ball running around the outside.
I
haven’t seen all of our skilled position players on the field at
one time, but watching them on film, I know we have a lot of them
coming back. I’ve got to put them in the best possible position on
the field. I’ve got to get the ball in my fastest players’ hands
whether it be in the receiving corps or through the running backs.
We had a sophomore who ran for 1300 yards last year and broke the
school record. How many times is he going to touch the ball this
year? I’ve just got to give them as many opportunities as I can.
As
far as our run-pass percentages, I really don’t know what kind of
balance we will have. We may need to start throwing the ball a
little bit more. Your running game can set up your passing game, but
then again in the year 2000 it’s vice versa now. Some teams throw
the ball 70 times and only run it five. I do want to emphasize the
idea with the kids that we do have to run the ball in order to
maintain and stay in the ball game.
It’s going to be a new
challenge for me. I know very little about the CS8. I basically
followed it through the papers and I did see a couple of Lincoln
games last year, but it will be new to me.
Sports
fans, make LDN your start page for the next three days to get all of
the plans Coach Tomczak has in store for the Lincoln Railer football
season. If you miss one, worry for naught; on Monday next week we’ll
follow up the last article with all five other articles.
[Jeff
Mayfield]
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