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Show Spotlight on Sports By Don Robinson If football gets anymore complicated the schools are going to have to offer a short course for "Fans who want to understand what they are watching, when watching watch-ing football." Have your wife listen to five minutes of a telecast or broadcast ball game and ask her what happened. hap-pened. Moab coach Glen Richeson spent three hours this week attempting to explain to coeds what the game was all about. He won't have a game this week so he may recover from the experience bv the next playing date. Maybe the game is getting a lttle complicated for the players too. In the past two years I've seen three teams that appeared to have some exceptional personnel, but never got anything going. Some coaches seem determined de-termined to use their college offense when they have 16 year olds for personnel. College offensive and pro offensive sets are possible because, in both cases, coaches recruit or draft specific men for specific positions. To try to apply these practices to the preps is frustrating and sometimes some-times discouraging to the youngsters. Moab's team this year has a comparatively simple offense comparatively that is. Coach Richeson says: "Execution matters not how fancy you get. Execute well and the play goes even when the defense knows you are coming at them." Amen! That simple offense mentioned men-tioned has four offensive sets (like Slot-T, Y Formation, Power I, etc.). From each set you can run about 15 running run-ning plays. The plays however, are basically alike despite de-spite the set. How about passing? It all depends on the defense and the imagination of the quarterback and the coaches on a given night. Defensively, seven sets are used with variations in reaction to the offensive alignment. That's enough for any high schooler to think about and still pay football. : At mid-season let's look at the stretch run. Moab has four league games to go and three are on the road. They meet both San Juan and East Carbon on foreign fields and the Vikings could well be a big stumbling block. San Juan (0-2) has five games including two against ag-ainst the Vikings plus Moab and Monticello. They get Moab at home, but travel to Monticello where the Buck-aroos Buck-aroos have an ambush ready. Monticello is in the driver's driv-er's seat for the class B region title and maybe the whole bag. Coach Ray Odette gets both Blanding and East Carbon at home and he beat them away which helps. Other than going to Moab, he plays winless Green River twice. Monticello's closest rival, East Carbon, is 0-2. |