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TimeB0mb said:
To quote Mike Leach:

"There’s nothing balanced about 50% run, 50% pass…that’s just 50% stupid.

Now, what is balanced is when you have five skill positions and all five of them are contributing to the offensive effort in a somewhat equal fashion, and that is balanced. But this notion that if you had it off to this one guy 50% of the time and then you throw it to a combination of these two guys the other 50% of the time, that you’re really balanced then you probably pat yourself on the back and tell yourself that, and people have been doing that for decades. Well, you’re delusional.”
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Balance and physicality is what wins in the end...I like Leach and respect him, more than the other pass happy maniacs... But I want nothing to do with his teams that run for 80-120 yards per game 5 out of 6 years. (every now and then he'll have a team that gets up in the 140s, or so...could live with that, but again it's more of an outlier team for him)

50-50 is good by me...60-40 pass is good...250/200 sounds real good. One dimensional is not good either way, and has been proven over and over again

Ask the Big 12 why they beat the SEC 1 out of about every 7-8 games that count.
 
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Just passing this along. Don't know if this has already been said on here but Major Applewhite is flying down for an interview. I'm not an insider, I don't pretend to be one, but heard this from a friend of a friend that's connected with the program. Considering Manny's history with him at UT, this isn't a surprise.
 
DMoney said:
Something to consider: several folks on our defensive staff have said (off the record) that UNC's offense was the most difficult scheme to prepare for. Fedora also fits the killer, run-up-the-score mold.
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Fedora fell apart at the end as a HC, but he had a ton of success as an OC over the years at UF and Ok State. He was an excellent OC in his day. Don’t know if he has any juice left or wants to even be an OC, but if he does he’s a beast.
 
The Franchise said:
Fedora fell apart at the end as a HC, but he had a ton of success as an OC over the years at UF and Ok State. He was an excellent OC in his day. Don’t know if he has any juice left or wants to even be an OC, but if he does he’s a beast.
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Rick hates him and he hates Rick, that has to count for something. Dude is a bit of an *******, which Miami needs right now far more than an amateur oncologist.
 
TimeB0mb said:
The Fedora idea is also hilarious because Rick f#ckin hated that guy. Manny is teabagging Rick right now. Sh#tcanning basically Rick's entire awful staff and possibly hiring a dude Rick hates.

Savage

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I get the feeling Rick and Diaz weren’t exactly best friends toward the end. Diaz and his players expressed open contempt for the offense regularly.
 
skeeter said:
I don’t want air raid

Spread concepts yes...wing it yes...but please remain physical. “Air raid” and all that gimmicky stuff goes out the window and gets the brakes beat off it by physical sec in the ship every year

Please remain balanced and be able to hit someone in the teeth when you need to
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Oklahoma runs the ball exceedingly well.
 
BoxingRobes said:
I like how the Alabama DL was giving Oklahoma OL props for adjusting.

idk if they have replayed the film yet...but what I saw live and in person from a strong vantage point...was the only adjustment being made was by Alabama from rushing 5 to rushing 3 and 4 for the rest of the game after they got up by 28.

What that game showed me was that disparity between Alabama's DL play and the best OL in the country is a canyon at this point and that iDL > your fave position.

Also, the absolute MUGGING that Alabama's CBs did to OU's wide receivers was comical. Saivion Smith assaulted, with prejudice, CeeDee Lamb on many occasions with one arm. Hollywood Brown was a non-factor and couldn't get off the line.

I know, the reality is, we aren't even competing with Alabama or even Clemson at this point...but be careful of wanting these Air Raid concepts. They'll get us to the top of the Coastal. But big boy football is all about iDL, big physical corners, and running the football. We aren't playing in the Big XII.
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Probably would have been a much different looking game if Hollywood Brown wasn’t trying to play on one leg. He was useless because of injury, and he was their best WR and field stretcher. And I remember Lamb eating Surtain alive. I don’t remember him getting smashed in that game.
 
CalCane said:
The idea you can’t run out of the spread is stupid. But how did us lining up trying to run the ball when everyone knew it work out for us?
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The best way clearly to run the football these days is from the spread. Anyone still looking to play football in a phone booth like Rick wanted to is outdated and oxygen deprived.
 
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The Franchise said:
Probably would have been a much different looking game if Hollywood Brown wasn’t trying to play on one leg. He was useless because of injury, and he was their best WR and field stretcher. And I remember Lamb eating Surtain alive. I don’t remember him getting smashed in that game.
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He wasn't getting off the line even if he was 100%.

You had to be at the game to see what Saivion Smith was doing to Lamb, I guess. That first quarter was a blood bath for Oklahoma offensively. They couldn't do ANYTHING.

But, as I said, I don't see it as D$ or others have expressed. It wasn't some adjustment that OU made to score some points, it was Alabama that took their foot off their throat once they got up 28-0. They stopped rushing 5 and sat back more, especially on the inside. Bama was showing blitz and dropping in the middle stages of the game and then just sat back for the rest.

I stated in the Bama-OU Official Thread...Patrick Surtain Jr. was the worst player on defense for Alabama all game long. He looked like a freshman.
 
The Franchise said:
Probably would have been a much different looking game if Hollywood Brown wasn’t trying to play on one leg. He was useless because of injury, and he was their best WR and field stretcher. And I remember Lamb eating Surtain alive. I don’t remember him getting smashed in that game.
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Don't kid yourself...yes Brown makes a difference. But If Bama stays focused or little Lincoln doesn't go into playing for 3 on a couple occasions down 20 and using clock himself, bama woulda been arrested for murder.

If Oklahoma poses a threat at any point, it's pitch and catch for Bama any time they wanted it, not to mention the running game...Bama coulda had 80, it was "mommy please make the bad man stop hitting me"
 
FL Cane said:
Just passing this along. Don't know if this has already been said on here but Major Applewhite is flying down for an interview. I'm not an insider, I don't pretend to be one, but heard this from a friend of a friend that's connected with the program. Considering Manny's history with him at UT, this isn't a surprise.
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Vet him, certainly. He’s another guy that can bring a little HC perspective and experience (ala Fedora). I’ll have to research what his offensive philosophy is.

I like the mention of Tony Franklin. He’s an OG Mumme disciple, another graybeard type who has been through a lot.

Bedenbaugh is intriguing but I can’t help but be a little hesitant that he hasn’t called plays. I certainly like that he was the architect of the addition of the power run element of OU’s attack. That offense is lethal, I don’t think anyone could deny that.
 
BoxingRobes said:
He wasn't getting off the line even if he was 100%.

You had to be at the game to see what Saivion Smith was doing to Lamb, I guess. That first quarter was a blood bath for Oklahoma offensively. They couldn't do ANYTHING.

But, as I said, I don't see it as D$ or others have expressed. It wasn't some adjustment that OU made to score some points, it was Alabama that took their foot off their throat once they got up 28-0. They stopped rushing 5 and sat back more, especially on the inside. Bama was showing blitz and dropping in the middle stages of the game and then just sat back for the rest.

I stated in the Bama-OU Official Thread...Patrick Surtain Jr. was the worst player on defense for Alabama all game long. He looked like a freshman.
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I don’t think your prescient, so I can’t just accept your theory that Hollywood wouldn’t have made any plays if he was 100% healthy. He’s done nothing but make big plays and scare the fck out of defenses for two years.
 
The Franchise said:
I don’t think your prescient, so I can’t just accept your theory that Hollywood wouldn’t have made any plays if he was 100% healthy. He’s done nothing but make big plays and scare the fck out of defenses for two years.
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Of course he would have made a play...but I don't think it would have mattered in the game.

I felt the difference between Bama and OU was pretty cavernous. Only time OU got anything in was when Bama was going easy on'em.

Just my opinion, I guess.
 
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brock said:
He definitely can coach qbs and i think have improved even more so in that aspect seeing what he’s done with Fromm this year
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One thing that's been lost in the Coley hate, is if he were our OC THIS year, this past year, we would all be watching the Canes play today.
 
Liberty City El said:
Alex Jackson, he was actually a QC coach under Richt at UGA in 2014.

If you're going with FCS coaches you'd want to go with, Chris Barnette, Allen Suber, Ryan Stanchek or Bodie Reeder.
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I know you and others have mentioned Bodie Reeder.
Pretty impressive prospect.
This is the type of OC we should be looking for, IMO.
Hire him and surround him with a grey-beard OL coach, strong recruiters at the remaining positions.

https://pistolsfiringblog.com/sourc...rging-as-osu-offensive-coordinator-candidate/
 
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