[Anthony D Burgess]

Originally Posted by artlax

I have been coaching sports for many years.

Can someone tell me how stopping the board multiple times has anything to do with realism or coaching?

Only during a controlled scrimmage am I allowed to go out on the field and tell players what to do and even then there is a limit to that.

Tudorian made avery good post in another thread - coaching is training them up and them letting them play.

I am not 'dissing anyone's style of play - as I have said before I play in 2 leagues with different rules and style - and enjoy both.

How can you simulate football intelegence!

In the old movies, King Kong for example, stop motion animation was used. Move the model a little take a picture. This was done rerepeatedly, the result the model became alive.

This theory is the same.

Close you're eyes, and play football. Can you see what you need to do? Can you see who you need to block. What would this look like in real life, it would look like men running around without direction, is this how you're playing. Now don't get into you're feelings, just try to understand my point.

If you have coached for years then as a coach you should know that action and reaction are keys to performance. If the player move hear you do this, if you see this you do that. giving the player instructions to follow is coaching is it not ?

Football is a game of action and reaction and you can not accurately play football with out it. ( 2-4 stoppages depending on the performance on the field) not every play lasts 4 stoppages some are 2, snap of the ball, 1st stoppage = a sack or other.

Coaching is :To train intensively by instructions, demonstration and practice, ( TO DIRECT THE MOVEMENTS OF PLAYERS ) is that in you're dictionary?
To instruct, direct, or prompt as a coach.

Program is : A brief use, out line of order to follow, the performance of a program.

Now when you tweak a base you are programing it to do 1 thing, this is called programming, not coaching.

When you direct the movements ( meaning more than 1 direction ) you are coaching.

But if you think programming is coaching then the dictionary is wrong, so if you are offended, let it be that Webster's not me.

Try this, tape a football game, 1 play, then watch it. Once the ball is snaped pause it! Now see what is going on, Now press play and let it run for 2 seconds and pause it again. what do you see?

That is why you need stappages in order to simulate football in realism.