New Strategy For Gtown FB?

[jgalt]

This is pretty interesting. I wish they got into the statistics more, but it seems like this coach knows what hes doing as they have been pretty successful.

espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4577094&categoryid=2378529

What do you guys think? Should our Coach Kelly implement this system ;D

[Boz]

I might be wrong, it might be another school, but I'm pretty sure TMQ has highlighted this school's strategy as one others should emulate.

I love TMQ, but he does tend to oversimplify, always talking about how you HAVE to run the ball inside the 5, how your should never blitz, and anyone who punts the ball when the odds are over 50% of making a first down or who kicks a field goal when down by multiple scores late is a "fraidy cat."

I agree with some of this, of course. But a "no-kicking" strategy really only works in a high school setting where most opponents are going to be overmatched. In the parity that exists in the NFL, even between 6-0 teams and (some) 0-6 teams, you can't do this. I don't think it's really that feasible in college, certainly not at the BCS level.

Football success, at least on offense, doesn't come from following TMQ-ish tenets all the time. It comes from (a) great line play and (b) keeping your opponent off guard and guessing.

If you wait until fourth down to try to catch your opponent off guard, or hit them with something unexpected, 90% of the time its too late by that point. (Unless, for some reason, your name is Bill Belichick who, despite calling probably the largest percentage of fake and trick plays of any coach, always seems to be able to confront an opponent completely unprepared for those things.)

Having said all of that, I'm pretty sure jgalt wasn't actually looking for a response.