Sooner fan here; not here to gloat, but can we establish one thing?

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The problem with Lil Nicky is he will not adjust to the teams that play Wussball. And even if you adjust it does not guarantee anything, as you still have to be able to cover.

I thought OU played a good game but I have no respect for that type of offense, it's Wussball, basically OU could not compete any other way. I did enjoy the victory though.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
Like I posted in another thread, the tough schedule excuse aint gonna fly if efforts are not made to ease it back during the period that our own head coach is preaching patience while he stacks bricks.
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I agree with you in principle. And, you're right - blaming our problems on the schedule while doing nothing about it is trying to have it both ways.
But, in this case only, I think the benefit of having a home game with OU in CBJ's third year is worth the risk of going there in his second year.

If we want to make the schedule easier, the OU game isn't what we should be looking at. We should be discussing the fact that our cupcakes are not really cupcakes; they are bowl teams.
 
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TNsnyper20 said:
I love how every shotgun formation is now a spread offense.
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Exactly, anything that has more than 1 wr is technically a spread, so all this talk of spread vs proset is just people that have no real clue on how football actually works running their mouths.

Anyone that knows how the game actually works knows that most of the spread formations are what the NFL calls, shotgun formations, therefor making all spread formations, "prosets" in their own right.

People need to learn more about football than what the media spews before they start pumping up one conference over another. Because if the OP had doen his homework, he would know Auburn does NOT run the "spread". They run what is known as a read-option offense which can vary from having a tight bunch no wr set, to having 4 wrs "spread" the defense.
 
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OP does realize when Bama isn't in the big prize under Saban his team gets disinterested right? They didn't want to be in the Sugar. They wanted to be in Pasadena.
 
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OP you... will not..... goad....me into.... arguing...... for.... the red team.

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PagingDrVol said:
All: I joined this board three years ago when moving to Knoxville from Oklahoma and trying to adopt the Vols as my second favorite team. Have enjoyed that, though the constant glorification of the SEC as the only conference that can play football is annoying and silly...

Anyway, I don't argue that the upper end of the SEC is usually good. But I did see one line of logic during the Jones hire and at other times that we need to just go ahead and do away with. Basically:

"...that Big 12 spread offense won't work here in the big bad SEC where we have fast as NFL defenses..." Or the like.

Let's go ahead and just bury that one forever.

Two Big12 afterthoughts have wandered into the SEC and basically dominated it with the spread. One beat the national champion last year. One won the SEC east this year. Another, my Sooners, shredded the SECs best defense last night to the tune of 45 points. Three long time SEC teams have woken up and smelled the coffee and adopted it themselves. One is playing in the BCS title game this year , against another ACC team who also runs it. Case closed.

All I heard when people didn't want to hire CBJ was that the spread wouldn't work here in the land of real defenses. The SEC title game score totaled 100 points. The spread is a stronger offense than any SEC defense can handle, and it's about to take over the NFL as well. The next time an SEC team needs to hire a coach, running the BIG 12 spread is not a reason to oppose the hire. In fact, we should oppose the hire if the coach wants to run the antiquated crap that OU opposed as fraudulent last night.

The spread is here, and if the SEC doesn't adapt, it will get left in the dust. Pack that pro set logic in a box and store it with your Atari and parachute pants. /rant
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Bama runs pro style offense and doesn't have issues scoring.
 
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Morpheus said:
I agree about the spread offenses. It's your best option for competing at a high level if you don't have big recruiting advantages. Doesn't mean it's dominant over pro-style, just more effective with lesser talent.

But I do think the Pro-style offense is nearing extinction on the college level. When the few remaining Pro-style teams can no longer dominate in recruiting, they'll either switch philosophies or change coaches.
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Are your initials D.B.?
 
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Vols520 said:
Bama runs pro style offense and doesn't have issues scoring.
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Coaches tailor offenses to their strengths. The offense that the OP is beating his chest about looked a lot different when OU had Jason White running it. And it looked different when Adrien Peterson was back there running it 30 times a game.

If the next QB at Alabama can run around, I'm sure you'd see Nick Saban throwing some read option in every once in awhile too.
 
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