5 Thoughts - Don't Think Just Throw

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5 Thoughts - Don't Think, Just Throw

CollegeFootballNews.com

Posted Sep 23, 2007

If you could average over 600 yards and 50 points per game, wouldn't you want to? Then why aren't Texas Tech's Mike Leach and Hawaii's June Jones hotter coaching properties? Hart for Heisman, the wacky first four weeks, jumping on the Buckeye bandwagon, and more, in the latest 5 Thought

Don't think, just throw !

Peter Fiutek

1. We've all been brainwashed since berth that defense wins championships, and that you must have a good, sound running game to have any shot at being successful in football. Yes, that's fine, but the idea is to score the most points possible. With that in mind, it's time for one of the big-time programs to rethink things a little bit and realize that Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach, or Hawaii head man June Jones, could actually be on to something.

I know, I know, the teams with the wacky passing attacks took a hit last week. That's glossing over the overall point. Right now, if you told Tennessee it could be second in the nation in total offense, averaging 606 yards per game (it's currently 48th in the nation averaging 418 yards per game), and could average 49.5 points per game (15 more a game than it's currently cranking out), you'd think it'd want that. Texas Tech is putting up those numbers. If you said to Florida State it could be averaging 55.75 points and 543 yards per game (like Hawaii currently is), don't you think it'd want to?

Of course, the numbers are a bit skewed, since Hawaii and Texas Tech haven't played the teams Tennessee and Florida State have, but you get the idea. It's also important to note that programs like Baylor and Arizona haven't exactly lit the world on fire by copying Texas Tech, but that's Baylor and Arizona.

I'm wondering what would happen (no offense, TTechers) if a big, BIG name program had Leach as the head coach. I'm wondering what would happen if you could get an elite of the elite recruit to run the offense, and more Michael Crabtrees to catch the passes. I'm wondering how this whole thing would work if Leach or Jones were at a place that wakes up in the morning and gets a boatload of top-flight defensive talent knocking on the recruiting door. I'm not saying Virginia Tech should replace Frank Beamer, but pair the Texas Tech offense, assuming it's coached properly, with the Hokie defense, and you'd have an unstoppable machine.

Yards are yards, points are points, and offense is offense. A passing yard counts the same as a rushing yard. It's time one of the top teams, once the fur starts flying and the coaching carousel begins, to think outside the spread box and take a look at Leach or Jones. If nothing else, it would be a whole bunch of fun.

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