[oneijoe]

With all due respect to Pikeville and their performance against Belfry, your coach has always had "the scheme" for slowing down/stalling out Belfry's offense, now it was made easier due to the fact that he has better athletes to plug in and fill the roles he has set forth for stopping this offense. I believe it was just as much to do with scheme and gameplan as it was personnel. Look at the Hazard and P'burg game. Watch the film of the Belfry game vs. The film of the Hazard game, I bet you will see completely different techniques and defensive allignments. Not much use in "diving" at offensive linemans ankles against a spread attack, versus implying said tactic against a quick hitting spread option attack. Just my opinion :igiveup:

The ingredients required to beat Belfry aren't a secret.

On defense, it takes linemen who won't surrender 2-3 yards off the ball, quick and sure-tackling linebackers, and good open-field tackling corners. On offense, you need is a passing game good enough to prevent the Pirates from playing more than 7 on the defensive front and a running game competent enough to take advantage of it. In other words, a balanced attack.

Prestonsburg had it in '09 and '10 and Pikeville had it Friday night...



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