Sun. & Mon., June 9-10, 2024
These two days were spent largely on the HUDL app breaking down and analyzing three late arriving game videos from Italy.
After enjoying a Bye during the IFL's
Wild Card Weekend, the Varese Skorpions
would be back in action next Saturday
The #1 seeded Skorpions (8-0) next opponent would be the defending IFL Champion, #4 seeded Parma Panthers (6-3).
The Skorpions beat the Panthers, 38-34, in Parma on April 6th. The rematch in the IFL Semifinals will be played in Varese.
The Varese 11 did not know who their Semifinal opponent would be until after last Saturday's Wild Card win by the Panthers over the #5 seeded Legnano Frogs (4-5), 29-20.
This meant that I would get the last three Parma game videos late Sunday afternoon and early Monday morning. I finally finished tagging the games, making the asked for cut-ups based on the Panthers four most recent games and then sending them to all of the Skorpion players and coaches at midnight Monday night. Thus they had four full days to review the cut-ups before their game on Saturday.
To be sure, I was weary of looking at my computer screen for hours on end.
In case you were wondering about those cut-ups, they broke down as follows:
16 Kicking Game/2 Point Play Cut-Ups
31 Defensive Cut-Ups
32 Offensive Cut-Ups
The Kicking Game/2 Point Play Cut-Ups featured a separate one for Kickoff, Kickoff Return, Punt, etc.
The Offensive and Defensive Cut-Ups were done by Down and Distance (1st & 10, 2nd & 1-2-3, 3rd & 10+, etc.) further broken down by Passes only and the Runs only.
Hopefully it will help get the Skorpions to the IFL Championship game on June 29th in Ravenna against the winner of the other Semifinal game between the #2 seeded Firenze Guelfi (6-2) and the #3 seeded Ancona Dolphins (7-2).
The Road to the 2024 IFL Title
is almost finished
Saturday's post included a photo of the two Athlon's and Lindy's 2024 college football magazines that recently hit the news stands and now proudly sat in our TV room.
One of our blog readers wanted to know why I didn't buy the iconic Street and Smith's Official College Football Yearbook.
This was my favorite football guide growing up but, unfortunately, it is no longer being published.
It got me to thinking about those great Street and Smith's covers feature a star of the year in full gear sans a face mask. I needed to browse through one of my old ones.
Billy Main, RB, Oregon State
We actually did wear face masks in those long ago days, just not on the cover of Street and Smith's.
I opted to peruse this old, weather beaten tome and found this . . .
. . . interesting predictions
of the West Coast teams
Today the Pacific 8, Pacific Coast AA, California AA and Far Western Conferences no longer exist. Only the DIII Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference remains.
Additionally, the following 19 colleges of the 41 listed above, no longer field football teams:
Azusa Pacific
Cal Tech
California Western
Cal Poly Humboldt
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal State Chico
Cal State Hayward
Cal State Long Beach
Cal State Los Angeles
Cal State San Fernando/Northridge
Cal State San Francisco
Loyola
Occidental
Pacific
San Francisco
Santa Clara
UC Riverside
UC Santa Barbara
Whittier
Nineteen is simply a staggering and highly disappointing number!
I opted to also look back at Street and Smith's 1968 issue.
His wearing of a face mask on a
Street and Smith's cover should have
been a red flag for all of us
Washington Husky stars of 1968
Al Worley would earn First Team All-America honors that season in large part for his still NCAA record 14 interceptions in the one season.
Al was a humble teammate and just a simply good man who we were all proud to see earn so many accolades in 1968.
I wonder if Paul Sabolic and blog follower
Paul Sabolić are one and the same person?
Back to the ever popular EuroBall scene . . .
Belgium's Kasteel Nitro's QB, #99,
looked great in this photo against
the Rotterdam Trojans
Watch his incredible agility, quickness and shiftiness on this clip as he runs the Read Option to perfection: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1127288731705285
Sunday the ELF played four games
The Paris Musketeers were
primed for their game against
the Frankfurt Galaxy
Paris (2-0) won a close one
over Frankfurt (0-2)
Berlin (2-1) had no trouble with
Hungary's Enthroners (0-3)
The Wroclaw Panthers looked
ready to take on the Vienna Vikings
Close but no cigar,
Vienna (3-0) edged Wroclaw (1-2)
Interesting Prague Lions-
Munich Ravens pregame poster
The Ravens (2-1) though
swamped the Lions (0-3)
All of the ELF Week #3 Results
The separation in the standings
is happening weekly
out of 17 are left after three weeks
have a Bye in Week #4 ELF action
Finland's Maple League is one of
Have's and Have Not's
Bulldogs with an upset win in the
Hungarian Football League
In the German Football League
the Assindia Cardinals took the
measure of the Cologne Crocodiles
Why do the Cardinals bill themselves online as "The Men in Blue?"
Another photo from the Kasteel Nitro's . . .
To make matters worse, our favorite
Belgian QB is about to land on this
poor, leg chopping DB
About right in today's America
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