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I honestly don't have an issue with our approach on offense. I don't love it. It's more fun to watch Lane Kiffin's offense for example than ours. But, don't really care as much about that as winning.
Key issue on offense in my opinion is the offensive line. If you play the way we do, you need to execute on short yardage, in the red zone, and be able to run the clock out at the end of games. OL was no where near good enough throughout CMC's tenure to do these things consistently. Changing out the OL coach is probably 2-3 yrs late.
My main concern is that our approach will go unchanged and our OL will take 2-3 yrs to get up to speed (with a good coach). Hope Scheelhaase can coach around it a bit better than we have... but OC will be a really hard job until we get the OL fixed (imho).
95%, I agree with you. I don't mind the approach - but I hate the lack of diversity.
You can watch a lot of teams that run predominantly 20 personnel like we do or 12 per (depending on how you want to label H Backs and TE's)
but who are way more creative with motion, play design , tempo , etc .... basically everything on pages 2-10 of a 10 page book on offense.
I love 20 per or 12 per. I love wanting to be physical. I really like wanting to control the game. So I'm a million percent on board with that.
What I dislike is the fact that we seem to try to run head first into a brick wall and expect the wall to give. That's why I'm not in love with the hire. I understand why it was made, if you're going down you wan to go down with those you trust, etc - and Scheelhase has the marks of a promising coach. But there are things that many teams who run similar personnel due that I'd like to see at Iowa State.
I'm not talking about going Tennessee and trying to run a play every half second the ball's spotted. Or air raid. I just mean having more motions than having Rus and Noel jog across the formation a million times in a game. You can have 10 plays if they all look alike and having the motions to distract the defenses' eyes from where the ball's going. When you don't distract the defense and they're not thinking and just flowing, having 10 plays makes playing offense really frigging tough.