D’WAY GETS BACK TO ROOTS FOR FIRST W

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By Sean Saunders/OF THE COMMERCIAL STAFF
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:19 AM CDT

The Warren Lumberjacks must have thought they were looking at the 2007 edition of the Dollarway Cardinals Friday night.

The Cardinals worked on implementing a spread offense during the first three games of the season, but they reverted back to their roots on Friday night, pulling out the wishbone that they ran under former coach George Shelton last season to earn their first victory of the season.

"That felt really great, but I felt a lot better for the guys because they needed to understand that if they give the right effort, positive things can happen," Dollarway coach Cortez Lee said.

Dollarway ran the wishbone for years under Shelton, but Lee said at the beginning of the season that he thought the spread was a better way to get his playmakers into space. But after the Cardinals' two previous opponents inflicted the mercy rule, Lee went back to the offense that led Dollarway to an appearance in the Class 4A Championship game last season.

After the first series, the Dollarway ground game began to eat up the time of possession for the first half. Senior Michael Willingham led a team that worked on ball control all week, and he fittingly scored Dollarway's first touchdown.

Willingham consistently picked up gains of at least 4 yards in the first half, but he really sparked the team when it needed a lift in the second half. After the Cardinals turned the ball over on its first two second-half series, the senior halfback ripped off a 34-yard gain on the first play of the next drive, leading to a touchdown to put Dollarway up by eight. Willingham had 142 yards on 18 carries, eclipsing the 100-yard mark for the first time this year after rushing for nearly 2,300 yards last year.

"That felt great really," Willingham said. "I owe it all to my offensive line and the coaches calling the plays on the sideline."

Dollarway also saw the emergence of its halfback of the future in sophomore Trey Daniels. At 6-1, 230 pounds, Daniels is one of the biggest bodies in the Cardinal backfield, and he carried the ball 11 times for 60 yards and two touchdowns and one two-point conversion.

Senior quarterback Jesse Grandy showed that he was familiar with the scheme by rushing for more than 100 yards for the second consecutive game. Grandy sparked two touchdown drives with gains of 50 and 38 yards, and he also scored two touchdowns on a pair of 1-yard sneaks.

Lee said at the beginning of the season that he planed to run the ball about 75 percent of the time, but Dollarway threw the ball only four times to knock off the Lumberjacks.

"That made it that much more special," Lee said. "Most of these young men in high school haven't beaten Warren, so to get that kind of victory against a team of that magnitude made those guys feel really good."

Pine Bluff snapped Warren's 38-game regular-season winning streak during the previous week. Then Dollarway snapped the Lumberjacks' 27-game conference winning streak to give Lee his first win at the school.

Lee says he has changed his offense to multiple sets to keep defenses offbalance. Lee makes no guarantees that the Cardinals will come out in the wishbone Friday when they travel to Dumas to try to remain perfect in the 8-4A Conference.

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[Jimbo Morphis]

if he doesn't run the bone all 25 fans will boo him.

[hootingowl]

Wishbone equals state title game again! Spread equals loss after loss!!!

[Big Fro]

<br />Wishbone equals state title game again! Spread equals loss after loss!!!<img src="http://fearlessfriday.com/yabbse/Smileys/classic/sad.gif"; border="0" alt="" title="" onresizestart="return false;" id="smiley_1_sad.gif" /><br />

Maybe McGehee should be running the wishbone? If Dollarway was that bad in the spread but beat warren in the bone...maybe McGehee would win in the bone? hmmm

[Jimbo Morphis]

<br />Wishbone equals state title game again! Spread equals loss after loss!!!<img src="http://fearlessfriday.com/yabbse/Smileys/classic/sad.gif"; border="0" alt="" title="" onresizestart="return false;" id="smiley_1_sad.gif" /><br />

Maybe McGehee should be running the wishbone? If Dollarway was that bad in the spread but beat warren in the bone...maybe McGehee would win in the bone? hmmm

maybe your parents shouldn't have smoked crack before you were born. this is not a thread about how bad mcgehee is, its about dollarway. is codecat the only person from dumas who can have a conversation about football? all you newsbies from dumas can do is crow about your one year in the playoffs or knock someone else. if i wanna get slammed abouit mcgehee i'll post something about them beating someone,okay. READ MORE AND POST LESS.

[Big Fro]

<br />Wishbone equals state title game again! Spread equals loss after loss!!!<img src="http://fearlessfriday.com/yabbse/Smileys/classic/sad.gif"; border="0" alt="" title="" onresizestart="return false;" id="smiley_1_sad.gif" /><br />

Maybe McGehee should be running the wishbone? If Dollarway was that bad in the spread but beat warren in the bone...maybe McGehee would win in the bone? hmmm

maybe your parents shouldn't have smoked crack before you were born. this is not a thread about how bad mcgehee is, its about dollarway. is codecat the only person from dumas who can have a conversation about football? all you newsbies from dumas can do is crow about your one year in the playoffs or knock someone else. if i wanna get slammed abouit mcgehee i'll post something about them beating someone,okay. READ MORE AND POST LESS.

Just because I post ABOUT Dumas doesn't mean I am FROM Dumas fool.
I said that about the Wishbone because of this:

<br />Wishbone equals state title game again! Spread equals loss after loss!!!<img src="http://fearlessfriday.com/yabbse/Smileys/classic/sad.gif"; border="0" alt="" title="" onresizestart="return false;" id="smiley_1_sad.gif" /><br />

All i'm saying is if the Wishbone works so well for Dollarway maybe it will work for McGehee. It's not that the spread WON'T work in Dollarway. It's not like the Wing T won't work in McGehee...
People say Dollarway can't win in the spread. I say they can win in the spread IF it's run correctly. Some people think Dollarway can ONLY win in the Wishbone. The reason...It doesn't require as much thinking as the spread. Are they in cov 3 or is that man-free? are they blitzing or are they bluffing. In the Wishbone it doesn't matter. Let them blitz...there will be AT LEAST one lead blocker on every play and often a guard.
I just hate it when people say the spread won't work. LIKE THE PEOPLE OF McGehee...Some of the people thought the Wing-T would make you competitive instantly and it hasn't. The fact is...talent has been down in McGehee and it looks like it still is.
Fact: It doesn't matter what type of offense you run if you don't execute.
ok...I'm done

[Redcoat]

Boy have I missed out.    Dollarway will do well in the bone. Only when challenged by equal talent will the bone go down as it has the last 2 tries.  You have to be able to adjust to different schemes defenses will throw at you.  If memory serves me right the spread was successful before Shelton's "bone" era. 

[Jimbo Morphis]

big fro i completely agree any offense will work with the proper execution. the spread takes the right read and everyone running the proper routes every play. the work ethic at dollarway will not allow this to happen. that is why i've been saying since before the season started they would go back to the wishbone which is much simpler and you can skip practice days. i have never said the spread won't work, just that it wasn't the best offense this year for dollarway.

[Redcoat]

big fro i completely agree any offense will work with the proper execution. the spread takes the right read and everyone running the proper routes every play. the work ethic at dollarway will not allow this to happen. that is why i've been saying since before the season started they would go back to the wishbone which is much simpler and you can skip practice days. i have never said the spread won't work, just that it wasn't the best offense this year for dollarway.

You are wise as you are old.   

[momof3]

Yeah but he's only right 18% of the time...tee hee 

J/K Oldman...I agree with you on this one.

[Jimbo Morphis]

Yeah but he's only right 18% of the time...tee hee 

J/K Oldman...I agree with you on this one.

this one and the pickems could get me to over 23%.