Stitt on Bleacher Report

[SonomaCat]

On the topic of the fly sweep that Stitt gets (claims?) credit for (shout out from WV coach) ... we were running that play in 6 man football at Winifred when I was in high school from 1987 to 1990. Get my PR guy and our lackey at Bleacher Report on the phone -- we have reports of days-gone-by offensive genius to share with the world!

[cats2506]

On the topic of the fly sweep that Stitt gets (claims?) credit for (shout out from WV coach) ... we were running that play in 6 man football at Winifred when I was in high school from 1987 to 1990. Get my PR guy and our lackey at Bleacher Report on the phone -- we have reports of days-gone-by offensive genius to share with the world!

Stitt gets credit for making the ball exchange a forward pass rather than a handoff, thus eliminating the potential for turnovers from a bad ball exchange.

I agree that it was a very good insight to see that part of it, but it is still a small addition to an existing play that has been around since the dark ages.

[SonomaCat]

On the topic of the fly sweep that Stitt gets (claims?) credit for (shout out from WV coach) ... we were running that play in 6 man football at Winifred when I was in high school from 1987 to 1990. Get my PR guy and our lackey at Bleacher Report on the phone -- we have reports of days-gone-by offensive genius to share with the world!

Stitt gets credit for making the ball exchange a forward pass rather than a handoff, thus eliminating the potential for turnovers from a bad ball exchange.

I agree that it was a very good insight to see that part of it, but it is still a small addition to an existing play that has been around since the dark ages.

Yeah, we made the ball exchange by way of a forward pass rather than a handoff (hand-offs weren't even legal in Montana 6 man rules at the time) ... so we beat him to it by at least 10 years.

That said, I'm sure hundreds of other teams around the country beat us to it as well.

[TomCat88]

Stitt wouldn't be the only coach to take credit for something he didn't come up with.

Bill Walsh re-named Paul Brown's offense the West Coast offense. He was taking credit for it until Bud Grant told the world it was the same offense the Vikings were using and they got it from Brown. Oops! Walsh started referencing Brown after that.