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Richardson tries to keep things rolling along by echoing his own team’s playcalling terms when possible. “It’s tough to keep two sets of calls in your head at once,” he says. “So if our opponent runs a play that we run, we use our terminology. That makes it easier for the guys to remember their responsibilities.”
broke it down as much as we could, but eventually, we just had to move on to more important things.” “You’re spending a few days trying to learn a system your opponent runs all year, so you have to be willing to accept that things aren’t going to be perfect,” Haddock says. “For example, if we’re preparing to play
to learn the techniques they need to be successful against the offense. “The same holds true when we’re playing a fast-paced offense,” he continues. “As a coaching staff, we’ve decided that the best thing for us to simulate is the speed of the opponent’s play calling, not the plays themselves. Rather than teaching our offensive
“I often take the scout team out for pizza, just me and them. That’s a fun time and it makes the guys feel appreciated ... We also look for other ways to integrate them with the rest of the team. When we go to road games, the offense travels on the same bus together, as does the defense. This allows the scout team guys to be on the same bus as starters.” Dominic Saltaformaggio, East Jefferson High School, Metairie, La. What happens if you’re preparing for a team that plays a style your team doesn’t? “You can’t worry about perfecting everything,” says Saltaformaggio. “We rarely threw the ball last season, so when we went up against passing teams, we had to work with our scout team offensive linemen on getting into the proper stance to pass protect. We
against a team that runs the triple option, we’re not going to worry about our scout team quarterback making the right read on every rep or his pitch being 100 percent accurate. We just need the play to look similar to what our opponent will run. If the guys are lined up properly and move in the right direction, that’s enough for the defense
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scout team how to run plays without huddling, we use two scout teams at once. As soon as one play ends, the second scout team jumps in. This means we can’t work as much on specific plays, but we feel it is a good tradeoff.” When it comes to working with individual scout team players, Saltaformaggio
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