Slugfest Nov 4th (Previously posted on another blog)

Slugfest went well, all things considering. It's been an interesting experience teaching aprox. 25 rookies and running a field crew. I have come to realize that my style of leadership is to panic and get shit done. Our lines weren't done nor were our posts put up so we bought 21 cans of orange field spray paint (get the downward facing nozzle) and spray painted over a taunt rope held by tent stakes. It works. The refs were just pissed at us 'cause we didn't do the ten and the five (we ran out of spray paint). On a side note one of our refs mistook a random field line from soccer for the tryline. Eh. Eh so after dropping two or three metal posts (assemble them on the ground first and then slot 'em in) we were good to go. The regulation "crowd barriers" are great fun to put up when you realize that they really only have to be symbolic. Our rookies did fabulous considering there were some major things we forgot to tell them (like you have to push up together on defense). Anyhoo, we got slaughtered by Sac State as our first game (btw we were fielding one team made up of two shifts with vets equally distributed among the sea of rookies). We lost to Humboldt 7-8, and beat reno two trys to none. One of my kids (I spend 14 hrs a week at practice, they are my kids) scored two trys which is just sick yeh? One of our pods got used to lifting fully with legs and they were stealing shit left and right. Good stuff. So many things went well. Clean up went quickly. Scrum by the Sea next week.