Football, Game of the Week - Friday, October 16, 2009 0:36 - 0 Comments

Pride Down Rival Browns

Jonas Emilsson
www.krammag.com

It’s not unusual for football coaches to agonize over every single detail concerning the play their team or what to expect from an opponent.

Legendary stories are often told about coaches at all levels pulling all-nighters pouring over game film after game film to develop an iron-clad game plan.

For Notre Dame Pride head coach Dave Diluzio, it was a certain player from the St. Francis Browns that was giving him some serious concerns, which lead to hours upon hours of time spent staring at a television to prepare for his teams’ upcoming clash against the legendary high school.

“Their quarterback” (Jamie Baldauf), proclaimed Diluzio. “He has kept me up the last three nights looking at film. He is such a great scrambler. We did a good job of keeping him in the pocket because he’s dangerous. If he gets outside you’re going to lose, so I think our outside guys did a good job with that and for the most side we kept him in the pocket.”

Based on his teams’ 21-7 victory, it’s safe to assume the time spend reviewing game tape was worth it, especially considering the stellar effort put forth by the team’s defense.

“I think we played well as a unit and we attacked the ball very well,” said Pride’s safety Mitch Koch. “We had a good week of practice to prepare and we played our hearts out on the field and we came out successful.”

Although Diluzio and company were concerned about the abilities of Baldauf, they could sit back and relax when their own star pivot Jimmy Underdahl lead the offense out on the field. Continue…