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east and west 6 th are tough. QB for West very good, #6. East willl prob go unbeaten til playoffs anyway?
JV LEAGUE, Green toppled west 4, I say Burg gets everyone back they will be hard 2 beat. West 4 vs phs 4 will be a good one.

Jv league. top 4, west,phs,green,burg all 1-1
v league, East 4 now 2-0.

I think all the teams are pretty good. It is hard to tell at this age how kids will fare. You never know if they are gonna come to play hard or they are gonna come and go through the motions. In 2 years of watching the 4th grade West Team I have never seen them so flat. I am not taking a thing away from Green. They were at home, obviously worked hard through the week , and they wanted it. Hats off to them. Sometimes your the windshield somtimes your the bug. I really look for West 4th to be there at the end of the year. These kids took there lumps last year as an all 3rd grade team, and I expect they will take this as a learning experience and get after it in the weeks to come. Good luck to all the teams and coaches.

WHAT WAS SCORE OF WEST 6 VS. EAST 6 ???

I believe that it was East 22-16. The West boys fought hard. It seems that East has alot boys on the sidelines, seems like they have kids from other schools which is fine and allowable. Just curious if there is that much interest at East.

I agree with all. My mistake on records! Green beat west which was a upset I suppose? Green looked well coached and our PHS 4 is blocking very well. You never know with the little guys. Burg willl still be hard to beat. But our PHS 3rd will fight em hard when it comes! We have West 4 in 2 weeks , we will be in for a very tough game.

Didnt West 4th beat burg ?

NBDK I know what you are thinking. Like I said on an ealier post you just never know what group of kids is going to show up to play on Saturday. Just like the movie any given Sunday. It is 100% the truth when watching Pee Wee. You can have a team that on paper should be leaps and bounds above another team, but if they are not into the game they can have it handed to them. The games are so quick you don't have time to make adjustments really, and you can not play from behind. I think it is a shame that they are pushing these games through so quickly. All the work all of the boys of this league put in and then they play for less than an hour. Maybe someone should suggest having the JV and the Varsity games at 2 different sites. I know they don't because of the refs, but there are usually 2 to 3 sets of officials throughout the day anyway. If they split up the JV and Varsity they would not have to worry so much about pushing everyone so hard. Parents get upset because there kid doesn't play, the coach didn't make the right call, it is very hectic when you are running wide open with 3rd and 4th graders.

Pee wee football is a great thing, and some of my best memories are from there and little league. I just wonder if some of these teams are getting a little too competitive with these kids. I mean you look at alot of these teams defensive setups and they are nothing like a regular defense. Most teams rarely run less than a 6 man line all the way down the field, and its nothing to see 7, 8, or even 9 on the line of scrimmage. Most of them load the interier between the guards and try to shoot the gaps all the time. Does it work at that level? Yes. But what are you teaching these kids by doing this? It just isn't football. I think the league really needs to push playing a practical style of defense. For instance there is the 7 men on the LOS on offense. Maybe they make a rule for no more than 5 defensive linemen between the 10 yard lines and no more than 6 on the LOS inside the 10. To me this would make for a much more quality of game and would teach these kids alot more.

At West, it is pushed that we run the basic high school scheme on offense and defense because were trying to build the program. I'll be the first to admit that it handicaps you a little in PeeWee running T formation plays where something a bit more wild may be more effective, but it is better for the kids in the future. I think more of these teams should look into doing this.

I agree with some of what you say Siderman, and other things I see your point but don't agree. Stacking the box is common practice. Like you said it teaches the kids nothing. West from what I see at the different grades runs a base 50 defense. So this point is good. Blizting is fine as long as they don't send the house, but it is legal. Being to competitive. I have heard this statement many many times. I understand how people are coming acrossed with it, but you can learn and still be competitive. That being too competitive comes when coaches are sticking 11 in the box. I have watched several sports where they say that every kid needs to learn. I agree fully with that statement. Kids need to learn that it is not about what Mom or Dad sees as fair for playing time. They need to learn the game, and they need to learn to be TEAM PLAYERS. These sports are team sports. When it becomes an issue with playing time it starts with the parents not the kids. Not all kids are cut out for a certain sport or maybe any sport. Those coaches should teach them what they can, and then let the kid decide wether it is right for them or not. Think about it, some teams practice from 8 to 10 hours a week for a game that playing time lasts around 30 minutes? I think most coaches do a really good job of teaching especially for what they are paid...(0)...... And take alot of heat from the angry parents. But why do we keep score? Why do we have officials? Why do we wear the uniform of our home schools for? Because the kids want to represent their team by winning for their school. Also ask yourself if my kid was a senior and I went and complained to the coach would it really matter? If my kid is a 3d or 4th grader and my kid hates english, and is doing horrible at it, if I went and told his principal to stop teaching him English would it make a difference? There are schools around our area that have adopted common practice of letting parents and people with political pull decide how to run a football program, and as you can guess which ones it does not work. I think West is doing a great job at building a program based around Coach Triplett's style of play and incase no one has noticed the program is working.....

I agree with most everything you said and I think you may have took part of mine the wrong way. I want to see kids learn football. What I meant by too competitive is the coaches taking advantage of the youth of the kids by employing strategies to just win a game. All I mean is if all the teams had the vision of learning kids football instead of just winning a Superbowl, the quality of Scioto County football would rise.

I'm sure that West does this, which I'm glad. And as you said, you can see the results.

As far as kids playing. It's not good for kids not to play at all. I understand there are big differences in the kids, and playing certain kids can jepardise your chances of a win. But not getting any reward from practices all week will do nothing but run them to a soccer field, and their is no way that we can predict who will be good when their in High School. I've heard too many stories about kids who barely played when they were young that worked their tails off and became good later on.