Is Chizik Looking For Offensive Coordinator to Run Traditional Style Offense?

we should know something by A-day, maybe. Fall practice at the latest! Just kidding. :)

But stories like Prosch and Shon Coleman are as gratifying as hearing that a top recruit phenom coming to the Plains. If my university can find room for these young men while they face some of life’s toughest challenges then it isn’t all about W’s and L’s or the bottom line.

And that’s a good thing. War Eagle, coach Chizik.

The bottom line is you have to execute blocking, running, throwing, and tackling to be successful at football. Regardless of whether it is an air raid offense or notre dame box. When a defense sets up heavily to stop the run or the pass you must be able to audible and execute a play that will exploit the weakness in the defense caused by overloading what they think you’re going to do. We all know this stuff so I don’t understand the fur flying over what style we run. I’ll admit that our offense last year was exciting to watch, but our D was insufferable for the most part. In addition to execution we must have a coordinator that doesn’t run predictable plays based on down and distance. Most coordinators try this until their players have trouble executing the plays and then they fall back to what their players do well. As much as I HATE bama they had one HELL of a game plan for LSU. The tigers were loaded up to stop the run so bama came out throwing high percentage passes to the TE on first down and destroyed the tigers confidence. Now, had the TE dropped the first couple of throws or Mcarron thrown terrible passes it would likely have forced McElwain to change his plan back to a power running attack that was their forte. The converse happened to LSU. They saw all that game film of bama having trouble stopping the option and planned to exploit it. Only their QB turned out to be TERRIBLE at timing his pitch allowing bama to cover two players with only one defender. Because they weren’t losing by much for most of the game they stuck with this rather than reverting back to the power toss that they were so successful with for much of the year. What I’m saying is both teams ran something drastically different then they did for much of the year. One executed and one didn’t.
As far as the FB is concerned, I’m just guessing that he’ll be an H back or possibly they’ll ditch one of the receiver positions and have him and lutz along with blake and another receiver all on field at same time. We all know lutz needs more touches and since none of our other receivers can catch a cold why not put lutz out in the pattern and let this dude help out our struggling o-line pass protect. An all american will be handy in the run game too ;) Just my two cents and no matter what I’ll be in JH next year.