I will say this about East Davidson, they could easily be 3-3 right now. Part of their problem is coaching and part of it is turnovers, mental mistakes, which goes back to coaching. I know some of the kids st East and have been to a few of their games. Two of their close losses they had the ball inside the opponent's 15 yard line, down by less than a TD under 2 minutes left and lost the game. From what I have seen, Hanner is a good fundamental coach and knows how to coach proper blocking and tackling technique but he likes to run the ball alot (like Lingerfelt) and doesn't seem to want to deviate from the basic offensive plan when it's not working. Where I see he can improve is play calling, game adjustments and creativity on offense. When your opponent is consistently stopping your base offensive run plays, you need to have a bigger play book and more formations that include some misdirection and fakes. When East played Thomasville last week, they were consistently stopping East's single back formation runs but he continued to call the same run plays. (BTW, Thomasville returned 2 East fumblers for TDs, one the RB was clearly down and was a terrible missed call by the ref). The game was closer than the score indicated. They also threw the ball some but just from the same 3 receiver set. With a little bit of creativity, East could easily have at least 2 more wins with a few offensive adjustments.
Lingerfelt at West Davidson is basically the same way with play calling and coaching. When East played West, I bet West ran that same Veer play about 30 times to the right and left. East kept stopping it but West kept running it. West has some pretty good size on their line and some decent receivers but don't seem to have worked on developing their passing game much. So, it goes without saying why they have only won one game.
