reading something today and had this thought

[Aggie Monster]

Does A&T host a team passing league camp? This would be a great way to bring exposure to our facilities and get an eye on some "diamonds in the ruff" that may be stuck in a "run first" offense. It could also be combine style and do official 40 times, bench, squat, and shuttle.

We got the facilities. Get a couple of sponsors, charge a fee per team and we set.

Quote from EKU coach

"I personally attended all six combines in Kentucky last year. I wanted to see for myself what talent was available and it gave me a chance to see some good kids. Our camps were important, too. We had a great turnout last summer for our senior development and passing league camps and we got a chance to see a lot of players.
"My staff and I worked hard for this class and we legitimately beat some I-A programs to get some of these players. We continued a strong tradition in Florida and had a great year in our home state. We also had a good recruiting year in Georgia. I think we got some outstanding players both athletically and academically, which is very important to us in the recruiting process," Hope said.

[Bornthrilla]

It will never happen. That idea makes too much sense.

[Bornthrilla]

BTW: Not only don't we have a true quarterback coach on staff ... we don't even have a coach who has had any experience coaching quarterbacks.

Who at A&T would be able to put together a team passing camp? Marshall Glen?

[Aggie Monster]

It doesn't have to be a teaching camp. It can be a competitive 7on7 camp. Invite teams, make a schedule and let the games begin. They can stay for 3 days, live in one of the empty dorms(should be a few in the summer), eat in the Cafe, look at the summer school honeys, and enjoy campus life. That's what they do for regular high school students. Why not do it for paying high school teams? You charging, so you would get your money back.

Basketball does it all the time. We loved team camp when I played bball. Got to play against schools you would never see regular season.

Day1:
Registration until 12am
Games start 6pm, 2 games per team

Day2:
Games All day, max 4 games per team. 2 morning session, 2 evening.

Day3
Playoffs- lose and go home

Our facilities are too good not to find a way to show them off.

NC State is holding a team footaball camp doing just that this June.

[Bornthrilla]

Can I send this thread to the main football page? I want the powers that be to see your idea.

[aggiejazz]

Hampton U has football camps on their campus. I was on Hampton's campus last summer and saw a lot of youth and several high school football teams on the Pirates' campus.

[DOOMS]

No offense but I ain't sending my kids to no passing camp for a chump who ain't come within four touchdowns of any team he coached against. I'll put them on a bus and take them to Elon or better yet Boone and let them see how championship football is played and coached. I guess we could be the poor-man's alternative

[Aggie Monster]

I just found out that Elon has one as well.

Yeah, Go ahead and move the thread

[sammiz]

Allan Hooker would be a great candidate to run such a summer program for QB's. He, in my opinion, is the best QB A&'T ever had! What's just as important, he is a motivational person and he is around young people all the time. He works for the Public School System. If asked, and paid (this should be mandantory) I'd bet he would do it without hesitation.

[Aggie Monster]

Once again, team camps dont have to be instructional. Teams come to compete and for coaches to evaluate their overall team skill, speed, and leadership vs other schools.

The only money the University has to spend in a competitive team camp is administration cost, facilities use(dorm and cafe), and giving players some perks(within rules) for coming. With it being a registration fee per team that shouldn't cost that much. It's passing league, no such thing as an official refs. In most passing leagues the team coaches ref the games themselves because it has no "stacks". During the elimination round you can use players in summer school or assistant coaches to ref the games.

It's not rocket science. That's why a lot of schools are doing it. Some schools dont do it because they dont have the facilities to pull it off. They might come away looking bad by letting rising seniors see the inner workings of their campus. With our fancy new buildings, big old score board, and nice field house we should not have that problem.

[4XLAGGIE]

That idea has been floated about and will probably be a reality if not this summer then definitely the next...

[Aggie Monster]

I found Elon's schedule. Doesn't really look like a lot of game playing. Only 2 scrimmage sessions, but they are 2-3 hours long. You can play 4 different teams in that amount of time. They taking the "give them pizza and they will love you" approach.

enloehs.wcpss.net/2007_enloe_fb_camp_schedule.pdf

[Bigboy]

Man, that's a lot pizza!! Where's the chicken??? But seriously, we need to do something like that in the near future. What a potential recruiting tool this could be!!!!

[econgrad71]

doomsday said:

No offense but I ain't sending my kids to no passing camp for a chump who ain't come within four touchdowns of any team he coached against.

AGGIE PRIDE? Yeah.

[DOOMS]

I was speaking from the prospective mindset of the target audience. I don't have any kids and don't live close enough to Greensboro to send my neighbor's kids if I did want to. We lost every game by an average of 40 points and ain't won a game since 2005. It's 2007. Methinks we need to be learning more than teaching right about now.

Bottom line is it would be advisable to get the infrastructure in place before we go around trying to add even more stuff for our overburdened staff to have to deal with even if it's as seemingly simple as a day long passing camp. While there's nothing wrong with putting it out there for future consideration at the present time the reigning worst team in division I football has other concerns.