Musing on motion and hurry-up

[Kiffinhomer]

At times I see an offense who could be competent and competitive with just about anyone. However, we had four big chunk plays negated by penalties last night. It was the same story against Arkansas as well. Our offensive line is undisciplined and poorly coached. Recruiting on the offense line was a red flag to begin with, but we had a worse offensive line in 21 and 22. We schemed around that vulnerability with motion and tempo. We have not done that the last three weeks. I believe it’s because the coaches are playing not to lose rather than to win. If this experiment with Heupel and Nico is going to work I think they need to look back to how things were previously done. If not, I think we will look at 24 largely like 15 and 16, a major missed opportunity.

 

[Wahoooo]

As to the hurry up offense…..

I have never been a college or even HS coach, but I do know others who have been.

All of them told me the same thing from a philosophic standpoint. They said IF this is the offense you decide to run, you have to be 100% committed to running it 100% of the time. The only exception is if you are up big in the 4th quarter with no chance of the opponent coming back, you can then run the clock. When Hooker was here , we still ran the hurry up with back ups when we were up 40 points or more. He said that other teams who saw what we were doing tried to use hurry up at times. However, it did not work because of it never wore the defense down.

it seems to me there is too much waiting at the line of scrimmage to call a play. If this is the case, why not just go ahead and huddle,

I guess a possible reason for the slow down is that our OL is out of shape and they are as worn down as the DL.