The football team from Springfield Catholic uses modern-looking offensive formations but tends to take an old-time approach to moving the ball downfield.
It’s the perfect mix for what coach Steve Hancock wanted to accomplish when he first arrived on the campus two seasons ago.
Hancock brought with him the two-back veer offense that his Branson teams ran for nearly all 27 of his years coaching the Pirates. Catholic (2-1) uses a variant of the flexbone offense that also uses the pistol. Quarterback Tyson Riley lines up two and a half yards behind the center instead of five yards in the backfield as he would to take snaps from the shotgun.