The San Benito High football team is returning to its roots.
Head coach Chris Cameron and offensive coordinator Bryan Smith
introduced a
”
new
”
attack at the team’s scheduled spring practices last week – new
in the sense that the current players on the Balers’ offense have
not seen it before.
HOLLISTER
The San Benito High football team is returning to its roots.
Head coach Chris Cameron and offensive coordinator Bryan Smith introduced a “new” attack at the team’s scheduled spring practices last week – new in the sense that the current players on the Balers’ offense have not seen it before.
But Cameron is only reintroducing an option-oriented offense, where at its roots will be based on the triple option.
San Benito began running the same offense back in 1998, and Cameron said the team was “running it with authority” in 2004 and 2005 when the Balers made back-to-back appearances in the CCS Large School Division championship, even winning it all in the latter year.
“But we kind of got away from it,” Cameron said. “We just got away from things we were doing real well.”
The team would add new elements and tweak it here and there each season, essentially leaving the Balers with an attack it didn’t start with.
“We kept building off of it and we got away from it,” Cameron said. “But it’s all stuff that we ran before.”
The triple option forces opposing defenses to worry about several different running plays where the quarterback can pitch to the fullback, pitch to the halfback, or decide to keep the ball and run upfield.
“The kids are loving it,” Smith said. “They’re excited and we’re getting a lot of energy out of them.
“And we are passing the ball.”
Cameron said the team made plenty of strides in just four days of spring practice, but they are still “light years” away from where they want to be.
“It takes a lot of work,” Cameron said. “But it also gives you a lot back.”
Read the full story in Friday’s edition of The Weekend Pinnacle.
