There were clearly some changes after the first season, but we also have to realize that these weren't the same age groups as season one, so they were fuller along in their development as players.
In terms of changes
The head coach for the Colts who left at the end of the year to go to the Outlaws, is technically a good coach and he found a balance towards the end of the year in terms of authority versus yelling. I think he also realized that he was the cause of a lot of injuries.
The outlaws won in spite of their coach, I think coach to kid the head coach was very good, but he was a pretty terrible manager of the other coaches. but that team won because they were just a talented group of kids that had been developed well.
The Bronco's really over compensated, they got rid of the coach from year one who was a brutally bad coach, but they bought in a coach that was good technically but didn't demand accountability from the players, especially in practice.
The guy that ran the spartans who had a girl on their team made a big adjustment mid season in how he dealt with the players, and it was a good change.
The coach for the other team the one that banned the family, was horrible in every aspect, even his pre game speeches were completely random and you could see the kids checking out.
I still cringe at a lot of things that they do.
Every team ran the blind pit, and that drill is just terrible, you can see that either the coaches weren't teaching the heads up technique or the kids just didn't get that, all I heard over and over again was the helmet to helmet sound, and there was too much of coaches not listening to the kids afterwards, and telling them to basically rub dirt on it.
The outlaws and Colts ran these major playbooks, you could see it in the highlight films that they showed of the games. The Colts coach even bragged about running a college offensive set on offense. That's really the easiest way to leave kids behind.
When I coached at Bantam this year, I loved our playbook from a logic standpoint, but at times I looked at the fact that we had 60 to 80 play calls in it and was worried about that. But we had a smart coach in terms of how the plays were called and realistically in the games we ran maybe 5 to 8 of those plays in total.
I would really like to see them continue this series but moving up to the next level which would be bantom 12-15. I would also love to see a season where they follow the high school teams.
I think that Tyfa was embarrassed badly by the first season, and the screaming and running kids til they wanted to die, and the talking about injuring with hits, and they cleaned it up some.
The biggest embarrassment in the second season was the conduct of some of the parents and the near brawl, the infighting by coaches, and the off camera fight between the Ducks coach and a parent.
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