Wow!!! Next time a mongoloid tells you coaching doesn’t matter or is overrated or hits you with Jimmys and Joes bullshyt, print this thread out grab a handful of the boogers and drool constantly flowing from said mongoloid’s nose and mouth, smear that gooey concoction on the printout and stick it to the giant warped mongoloid face.
In other words, you love the outlier example. In other words, nothing ever changes. I'd sure you'd love to return to a situation in which nobody ever laughs at your simplistic infatuation with outliers. Obviously you got away with that at Grassy year after year.
LSU gaining 2.4 yards per play from one season to the next is the ultimate outlier. Meanwhile Jim Harbaugh switched to up-tempo no-huddle this season. That was the spotlighted example throughout the offseason, far beyond LSU. There were dozens of articles and video segments touting the switch. Michigan ended up with basically the same production as last season, actually slightly worse. A quarter of a yard per play worse. Two points per game worse. They did not have a Joe Burrow, a guy who threw for 11+ YPA three times in the old 2018 system, including the bowl game victory over UCF.
No, Michigan's Jimmy was Shea Patterson, who ended up declining from 64% completions in 2018 to 57% in the spread version this year.
USC looks like a big bump upward unless you actually follow the program and realize that 2018 was the outlier. USC's yards per play have been in the 6.5 range for years, other than the decline in 2018, the season after losing Sam Darnold. This season merely restored to where it had been previously.
Likewise Clemson dropped way off to below 6 yards per play in 2017 when they had Kelly Bryant at quarterback and not DeShaun Watson...or Trevor Lawrence. You might say that Kelly Bryant was the outlier.
Funny how this Jimmys and Joes stuff works.
I'll take the personnel dominance. Michigan can't beat Ohio State regardless of scheme because they can't match the players. Speeding up the game merely adds more possessions and therefore widens the gap between have and have less.
Look, I think we should speed things up. But the aspect we are missing most is hurry up and run the ball. Pace cleanses the offensive line and running game beyond anything else. Michigan did it the wrong way. That is often the danger. They subtracted 5 rushes per game and passed 5 more times per game. The touted change actually didn't do anything to offensive snaps per game. Alabama under Tua has done the same thing, as I posted yesterday. They have sharply dropped rushes per game the past two seasons, down from 42 range to 33. I'm hardly surprised the defense suffers as a result.
IMO, Alabama would still be considerably more physical and pushing these teams around if Saban hadn't succumbed to the lazy older coach belief that he had to start airing it out. Previously Saban couldn't tolerate one touchdown against his defense. Now he accepts it as no big deal since his offense will outscore you anyway.