There are two types of "good" teams in College football

Dec 1, 2013, 12:04 AM

One type is the fundamentally sound, well coached, power football team...like Alabama, Ohio State, LSU, FSU, etc. The other is a finesse type of team that uses FSC tactics with stellar D1 players to gain an advantage and become "good". These are the Boise State/Oregon types of teams.

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of advantages of using FCS tactics at the big-time D1 level. Hurry up offenses...they're great. They wear down defenses and put a TON of points on the board. But in the end of the day, in football as in life, gimmicks give you a quick advantage and brief and limited success, but gimmicks NEVER win in the long term. I love Chad Morris. But he has a lot of growing to do to get into big boy football. Rod McDowell's night SHOULD be a huge lesson for Chad.

Can we get to the top of the top with Chad Morris' offense? No. Not with the offense he ran for years in Texas with high school players. But Chad has the ability to learn, and he has learned in the past, and he is learning now. We can grow and improve in his offense, and he will have to give a little to get a little.

Our defense is vastly improved over past seasons. It is not a gimmicky defense. It's fairly traditional and hard nosed, which is good. We will only get better under BV.

But Dabo has to learn that innovation will always give you a limited edge. BUT, fundamentals will always give you long term success. Danny Ford was famous for saying that only three things can happen when you pass the ball. One, you get a completion and a lot of yards and a great play. Two, you have an incomplete pass, and it's a wasted play. Third, you get an interception and lose the ball. That's a (2/3) 66.667% FAILURE rate. Now we have much better athletes than Danny ever dreamed of having, and we have great coaches to mitigate those odds. But those are the odds that are ALWAYS stacked against you. ALWAYS.

People on this board are saying that you don't blame the coaches for 6 turnovers. Well, you DO blame the coaches for 6 turnovers. Our offense SCREAMS for turnovers, and a good defense WILL get them. If they don't get them from their own efforts, they will get them from the numbers where WE give them up.

The more you use gimmicks the less you dependable you can be. Sure, you can overachieve on any given week against a lesser team. BUT when the #### hits the fan, you have to have great fundamentals. And we don't. The se are kids who we are expecting to beat the odds every week. We expect Tajh to buck the 2/3 trend and ALWAYS get that 1/3 result of a positive play. And only half of those are big gains.

Chad needs to go back into his play book, and maybe make his own scheme, but he needs to concentrate MORE on the run when times are tough. He has a tendency to go for the kill more and more the further we are behind. That's a great attitude, but the execution of that attitude should not be trying to make a 30-yard pass every play. There's nothing wrong with running the ball for 4 yards.

Hot Rod had such a great night tonight BECAUSE USC schemed Chad's offense, yet again. They gave up the run because they KNEW Chad would always pass first and that's what they shut down. They did it through pressure on the QB and through coverage schemes. FSU did this also, as you may recall. In a truly great offense, the defense does not know what to stop, the run or the pass. It is balanced and both are effective. But we are predictable. We pass to set up the run, and that's it. Nothing else needs to be learned. Other teams run to set up the pass. But the BEST teams keep DC's guessing about what the #### is going to come next. If Clemson is down by 10 points, you KNOW what is coming.

We are good, very good in fact. But we are not great, and will not be great unless we change what we do. USC is ahead of us here, more than any team we play yearly possibly. There are no gimmicks with USC. There are no gimmicks with Alabama. There are no gimmicks with FSU. FSU didn't change their whole offense or defense. They just got a good QB to plug into what WILL always work.

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Our coaches preach ball security and preventing turnovers. They practice and drill for it, just like every team does. Still, they happen. Not because our guys aren't tough enough, not because they haven't practiced or been coached properly; they just happen. Bad decisions, bad luck, good plays by our opponents which cause turnovers, and a combination of all of those. They can only be prevented by coaching up to a point.

Tonight, in spite of all of the perceived coaching mistakes and shortcomings, we were tied with the number 10 team in the country into the 4th quarter. Our offense, defense, and gameplan on both sides of the ball were good enough to beat the coots tonight. We lost because we inexplicably kept turning the ball over. It's just that simple.

There are two types of "good" teams in College football

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You nailed it, brother***

Well said

But...but...but...but...smashmouth spread....

Maybe, but I think you are over thinking it.

I hear you but... not so fast my friend...

The Sammy throw to Humpries was one of the more ill timed

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