"The best formation in all of football is the 'Victory' formation."
It is something I've heard said by coaches at every level, and it's tough to disagree. There's something beautiful about going out there to take a knee.
However, there are certain situations that require a bit of a different approach with your Victory formation, and Fayetteville HS (AR) found that out the hard way this past weekend.
Up one, with the game clock running at about a two-second differential from the play clock, Fayetteville found themselves in a fourth down situation deep in their own territory where they needed to eat up two seconds before taking a knee to ensure that they'd fully run out the clock.
However, Fayetteville made a grave mistake and instead of running around for a few seconds, or running a play, the quarterback took the snap and immediately kneeled. The officials, realizing the time differential from the game clock to the play clock, put two seconds back on the game clock.
The result was a turnover on downs, and Central was able to send out their field goal unit to attempt a chip-shot 29-yard field goal to win the game in dramatic fashion.
With this unique situation, along with TWO situations in the same weekend where teams encountered situations where they did NOT want to score (but did anyway), these are great reminders of our role as coaches to not only educate our players, but also educate ourselves on these types of rare scenarios that can win, or lose, ball games.
See the full moment unfold in the clip.