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I know Gallatin Co. runs 3 and 4 wide over 50% of the time and Lone Oak runs the Tony Franklin spread. MS football is not close to what is was when I played. There are still teams that line up in power set and pound between the tackles but there are also alot of coaches putting in the extra time to develope their players. We run cover 2 cover 3 and tampa 2 and straight man coverage. We do find that 7on7 help us greatly. If your team does none of this then that is fine but please do not try and bring the people who do down.

Coached against LCA this past year and we use to play Gallatin Co until this past year. We have played a number of teams that do spreadout at least in the beginning. We spread it out some. I said there are not many teams. I did not say there were none. We do 7 on 7 with our HS. I said they have there place where teams work on what they truely do. What Spencer Co is offering is an example of 7 on 7 done the right way. Tournaments can get just silly with the type of stuff teams do. What I am talking about is not restricted o MS teams. If you watch HS 7 on 7 tournies you see just some silly stuff.

I am not trying to bring anyone down. Its good to see teams do it now. It just helps everyone involved when done in a manner in which services both teams and gives realistic looks.