Auburn's offense might be bad, but don't call it the spread, the Airraid, or the Tony Franklin System. You can't analyze the heart of Tim Tebow." - Urban MeyerĦ. Our management of the game is based off statistics. Our whole game plan is based off statistics. "They say statistics are for losers, but losers are usually the ones thinking that.
What does (should) it mean to be crowned National Champion?(Another self-explanatory one).ĥ. Again, I don't think OU has the offense or Leach figured out once and for all (I mean, Tech did beat OU the year before and scored over thirty on them), but I can't completely discount this.Ĥ. If the OU guys have this heightened familiarity, it's not just schemes, it's knowing how Leach runs a practice, how they practice screens, indeed, how he approaches the game. The Airraid, as much as it is certain schemes - and no doubt OU's defense sat in zone a lot of the night working on their ability to pattern read the traditional Airraid concepts - but the Airraid is an approach to football as much as it is an offense. If OU does "get" Leach's offense, he doesn't get it in a way that another team could just pop in the tape and pick up. As I've pointed out before, Leach ran his offense at OU exactly how he wanted. That said, there's a kernal of truth to Stoops' theory about knowing that offense. OU clearly has a talent advantage of some kind, and although the offense didn't do nearly enough to even approach winning, it was only a few bad drives before the game was 21-0 and was basically out of reach.
The game wasn't a referendum on the offense, it was a battle between two teams.
Stoops even reinforced this storyline after the game, by noting that most games between Tech and OU haven't been close. Money quote:įurther, storyline is that Stoops, Venables, and others basically have Leach's number, they've figured his out, and don't expect all that stuff to work against them. Discussion of OU's drubbing of Texas Tech. I have to think Chizik envisions this kind of result.Ģ. They have all these great athletes, they have solid schemes, and they go so fast they mow you down. He ran it at Northwestern with Randy Walker, and that's how OU killed people this year. But he knows one thing extraordinarily well: the no-huddle up-tempo offense. Kevin Wilson, OU's offensive coordinator, is not known as a passing guru, and few would confuse him with one.
#UF SMART NOTES PRO#
But before people jump down my throat, I note that I think Wittgenstein was accurate when he said most arguments boil down to people's different uses of labels and language, in this case what spread or pro means to one person versus another. They use both the "I" and other traditional sets, though are probably still more "spread" than anything else. (When asked what offense Oklahoma runs, Bob Stoops said simply: "The Oklahoma offense."). Labeling them spread, pro, multiple, or whatever is a bit futile. Their passing game is kind of a derivative of what they did under Mike Leach and Mark Mangino, but they have gotten away from the pure faith of the Airraid and now use a lot of rather traditional (meaning, common) concepts. They don't do anything that a lot of teams don't. Oklahoma too has a fairly basic system as far as schemes go. As Dr Saturday recently pointed out, "only Oklahoma's 1,036 total plays bested the Hurricane's 1,007 this year, though TU led the nation in yards per play." I think this is no coincidence.
So, you can see why this might be appealing to Auburn, even with a defensive minded head coach. Okay, so it's not really a guide at all, but instead just some stuff I've previously written that happens to have some tenuous link to the title matchup between Oklahoma and Florida.ġ.
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