Spread vs. Standard
Like other great debates, "Tastes Great vs. Less Filling," "Give me Liberty or Give me Death," Brown vs. Board of Education, the question of spread vs. standard needs some full, honest and open debate.
I, for one like the standard. But I'm eager to be made a spread convert.
AaronB.Leavy
I, for one like the standard. But I'm eager to be made a spread convert.
AaronB.Leavy
posted by aaron at 10:27 AM
4 Comments:
My initial argument in favor of standard is that it by definition ensures that you have a cut from a stopped disc. On a stopped disc in the spread none of the cutters should be cutting, rather waiting for the disc to be moved to a handler. If, as happened over the weekend this results is higher stall counts our cuts are less well set up. Ideally the cut would afford the handler a 3-4 second window up field and 3-4 second window to deliver the dump. But I think the spread tends to reduce creativity (despite being designed to encourage it) because while waiting for the power position we're trying to guess when to cut. in the standard it's easy...if you're in the back...you damn well better be cutting.
But, as I said, I could easily be converted.
Well, one modification would be to have a spread with each corner numbered.. and when ever a disc is started, call out a few numbers.. like 231, which means 2 should get open in, continue to 3 and hit 1, with the knowledge that if it gets stopped, we dump, and call a new number (i.e. the dump calls the number before they receive the dump) Hmm.. but maybe that's too complex......
Yeah, all this numbering, is confusing. I really liked the pairs we ran yesterday. it was more informal and I think got us in a better position to think creatively and to work to take what we were given.
I like the idea of calling plays when you get near the endzone.
So I could yell, Whitman 7, and that could mean charles (whitman college) to the breakside (7). or Kenyon (9) and that'd be michelle ot the force. something like that.
For break versus Force side, I am a bigger fan of what we did last year and the year before (and I think stole from subliminal) which is a room inside the house = break mark, and outside a house = force side.
Example:
"I want Megan in the kitchen" means I want Megan to get open to the break side, while "I want Liz in the shed" means I want liz to get open on the force side.. It worked pretty well.. and gets funny :)
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