Watch Bismarck High boys in the state tournament. They play a dozen players. Full court press the entire game. Would be a good model for ndsu to copy.
They bust their ass every minute.
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When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. -Max McGee
“I really thought you had to run the football to control the game,” Erhardt once said. “You had to throw the football to score but had to run the football to win.” - Ron Erhardt
When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. -Max McGee
“I really thought you had to run the football to control the game,” Erhardt once said. “You had to throw the football to score but had to run the football to win.” - Ron Erhardt
You need to be deep and athletic. The problem with constant full court pressure is your going to give up some easy baskets at times. It will be interesting to see how it plays out this weekend. I think it would be tougher to implement and maintain at the college level.
25-30 years ago West Fargo High played a similar type of pressure defense when Bob Torgrimson was their coach. He won a few State titles.
It's worked at a few places at the college level. Like with Nolan Richardson's "40 minutes of hell" at Arkansas or more recently Bob Huggins' Press Virginia. But you're right that those teams needed and had a lot of great athletes and more specifically great athletes who were rim protectors that could erase a break if the press did get beat.
North Dakota State, a football team the big boys of college football should avoid like the plague, helped christen a $90 million renovation to Snyder Family Stadium — including a statue of famed Kansas State coach Bill Snyder himself — by taking a sledgehammer to the place.Bob Lutz, The Wichita Eagle, August 30th, 2013