Bentonville defense preparing for Conway
Posted on Wednesday, August 27, 2008
BENTONVILLE - Even though the season's opening game is a week and a half away, Bentonville's defense already has begun preparing for Conway, which the Tigers play on the road Sept. 5.
Head coach Barry Lunney said defensive coordinator Robbie Jones has placed some periods into Bentonville's practices devoted to the Wampus Cats' tricky Wing-T offense.
"It's a unique offense that we'll see one time a year unless we see them in the playoffs or if somebody else has switched to it," Lunney said. "There's lots of misdirection involved with it, double handoffs, angle blocking. Defensively we've got nine starters back, not that we've arrived by any stretch, but we felt like we could spend a little time looking at [Conway ]."
The Tigers structured practices during the first week of school as if it was a game week. They worked out in full gear on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before practicing in shorts and helmets on Thursday. Bentonville went through a scrimmage Friday.
The Tigers are going through the same routine this week and will travel to Tulsa Union on Friday for scrimmages against Oklahoma schools Owasso and Sapulpa before playing a two-quarter mini-game against Union.
"[Today ] we'll start talking a bit about Union and Sapulpa and some of those we're going to see in that scrimmage," Lunney said. "We don't want to go into that thing cold."
Unless something drastic happens before the scrimmage, the battle for the Tigers' starting quarterback position continues between senior J. C. King, junior Tyler Sanderlin and sophomore Pearson Gean. Lunney expects the scrimmages and minigame at Union to be a good evaluation because the quarterbacks will be facing a defense that isn't their own.
FEEDBACK:
Something to say about this topic? Submit a Letter to the Editor online
