Tom Herman must take the video game out of Texas football

[aztecskin]

32 minutes ago, Aldo said:

The best, at least. Best talent and coaches. The NFL pipeline with receivers like Amari Cooper, Julio Jones, and the lesser regarded (but still good imo) Kevin Norwood.

Again, you can win with any scheme as long as you 1. recruit to it 2. teach it 3. execute it. 

[untjim1995]

1 hour ago, FirefightnRick said:

Maybe the one legitimate multiple offense in college?

 

Rick

What amazes me about Alabama and why I enjoy watching their team is that they can play any kind of offense they need to in order to win a game. Get behind at Ole Miss by multiple TDs? Open up the offense and let the mobile QB go wild and score points fast enough to come back. Want to try and get physical with them and run the clock out on offense like LSU did? Ok--we will just wear you down until you submit to our will.

What Bama has goin on in Tuscaloosa in these most competitive of times in college football is among the most incredible dynasties ever built. Thru the 80's, there were about 20 schools that got big time TV coverage, of which Alabama was a part of. Today, that group is probably around 50--in other words, recruits can go to lots of places to get exposure and many 4 and 5star recruits are looking at where they can stand out the most. Yet, at Alabama, with a task-master in Nick Saban that the sport hasn't seen since the days of Bear Bryant, they are getting almost every recruit they want to come there and find ways to just blend in and keep the juggernaut rolling, knowing full well that other equally-talented kids will be coming after you every year.

If you can get past the fact that Goliath is a badass and probably will be until Saban retires/dies, you can sit back and realize that Alabama plays a type of college football that is actually like football that you have watched for decades before the spread made the sport look like basketball on grass...I love watching their games and knowing that they will whip somebody's ass completely while scoring less than 40 points. Watching Navy beat SMU 75-21 is embarrassing for the sport (although I do love SMU completely getting demolished by a service academy...)

[emmitt01]

2 hours ago, Graddean said:

Texas lost to Bama because of personnel not scheme.  They lost because McCoy went out in the first quarter and played the rest of the game with an inexperienced QB.

Unless Colt McCoy weighs 320 pounds and could have stopped Alabama's rushing onslaught I beg to differ.  Bama was the better team..and arguments to the contrary ASSUME that Texas would have kept scoring.

[untjim1995]

33 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

Unless Colt McCoy weighs 320 pounds and could have stopped Alabama's rushing onslaught I beg to differ.  Bama was the better team..and arguments to the contrary ASSUME that Texas would have kept scoring.

That that game even got close was mostly due to the fact that Greg McElroy was playing with broken ribs and they just ran the ball to run down the clock. But when push came to shove and Texas got a chance to go down the field and win the game, the Bama defense slammed the door shut immediately.

I think that game might have been different had Colt played the whole game, but I still think Alabama's size and defensive speed was something Texas had never faced in the Big XII and it would have still led to a Bama championship.

[Aldo]

19 hours ago, aztecskin said:

Again, you can win with any scheme as long as you 1. recruit to it 2. teach it 3. execute it. 

 

20 hours ago, FirefightnRick said:

Maybe the one legitimate multiple offense in college?

good read re: lane kiffin and borrowing and implementing spread concepts in pro-style offense

http://smartfootball.com/offense/alabamas-lane-kiffin-master-copycat#more-4940

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Although each of the plays I’ve highlighted were borrowed from so-called spread offenses like Ohio State, Baylor and Oregon, Kiffin’s borrowing them very much fits in with his and Saban’s “pro-style” background, where the emphasis is on situations and gameplanning — and drawing ideas from anywhere — as opposed to running only a core set of plays that fit together and relying on your team’s execution and the coach’s ability to move down the sequence as the defense tries to react.