I like Kstate style just because I like that kind of football. I don't like ISU trying to re-identify ourselves every time a team finds a way to win with a "new" kind of offense.
The Big 12 was overran with quick smaller QB's back in the mid part of last decade. Putting them in the shotgun made sense because it backed them up so they could see what was happening. Imagine Chase Daniels always in the I scheme, he would have been killed. What happened, people saw it working at a number of schools and tried to replicate it. Some places it worked and some it didn't, just like all styles of play.
Problem is that changing an offensive scheme because it is working other places is like putting lipstick on a pig. Often it doesn't correct the lack of talent issue and many times you have players that work ok in one system and are completely out of place in another. If you look at the big names in football and coaching, you don't see major changes in how they run their offense through the years. Sure they will throw in some wrinkles and experiment, but their style remains and they continue to have success. They have their style, they recruit for that style.
The only times schools should change their style is if for some reason the wrong players were being recruited and you have to adapt the offense to fit the skills of the players or if the school has decided to completely change their identity. In the case of the later, prepare for it to take years of recruiting and bad results before the offense final establishes themselves.
This is what we have been dealing with at ISU. To make changes such as putting a few plays under center is fine. To suddenly implement a power running scheme is not. KState and OU both have lines built more for power running, but Rhoads has intentionally recruited players for the line that are maybe a little smaller but more mobile (more like the Missouri's). As you have seen, with that we also have recruited shiftier backs and receivers who can beat one on one coverage.
I don't think CW is talking about a complete break from what we are doing, I think he is talking about more like what OU does, in which I have a problem with taking a 4 star big body and using him only for a play or two a game. I've not seen Joel play, if he has some speed and can throw the ball at a college level than I have no problem with him trying to work within our system and maybe he can do something. I just don't want to see us trying to put a square peg in a round hole in hopes to replicate something that probably won't work well with our system.
