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Insiders look at all of the college offensive schemes used today

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Baby Gator
Jun 25, 2018
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College Football Offensive Schemes used today - system fits and more!

THE OPENING

Each year new offensive and defensive schemes arise throughout the world of football and our implemented to deceive opponents. Teaching these concepts and being a master of deception is a part of the game I was lucky enough to learn at a very young age. This higher intellect of knowing how to bewilder your opponent into believing you are about to run the same play that they seen in film study. Only to have a completely new variation that is able to leave all eleven defenders looking like deer in headlights. Mass confusion is always a great way to win a game and take control of your opponent mentally. Once you establish your opponents mental capacity to adapt, now you can target the weak links in a opposing defense and EXPLOIT that area of the field or one on one match ups. See, to most highly intellectual coaches, the game is not won and lost on the field. Most top coaches, believe they can put ANY athlete that fits their "SYSTEM" in that role and still be effective enough to win ball games. I have learned throughout my career that these coaches are very hard to find and are very unwilling to give up their secrets, as this is what got them employed and to the level they are at. Luckily, if you are adept enough and know psychology, you can figure out how most of this WINNING is being done and why some coaches sit atop the world of football year in and year out.


MY PHILOSOPHY
Knowing every single play ever ran in a football game and having every college/pro style system ingrained in my head from over 25 years of learning at the highest level. I will happily give away my game plan every week and have many similar "variations" off of that play, which leaves the defense to play a guessing game. Lining up in the same formation and running the same play 50 different ways with slight variations, throws the defensive players off who are taught to read certain "keys". Being able to flip from a power style run game to a spread-option or run and shoot attack instantly by adjusting personnel makes them have to adjust accordingly. In most cases, if ran as a cohesive unit, defenses will not have enough time to adapt and will be left feeling very insecure and deflated once we are done using are exploitative tactics. I found a play of Daimarqua Foster on his teammates highlights Johnny Taylor where he carried out one of the most beautiful "screen fakes" I had seen a HIGH caliber back perform. This confirms my grade of Foster and the football IQ that he possesses as the top player in the nation. I gauge players A LOT differently than Rivals, 247 or any other network, as I know EXACTLY how that player can and will be utilized, at the next level. This helps me really know a players true worth when it is all said and done, as there are KEY attributes you look for in each "system fit", for each individual player. I am going to list some examples below, as there happens to be millions of intricacies that make this "barbaric" sport, more of a chess match for people like myself.

Read the rest by clicking the link above to learn about every different college style offense used in today's game.
 
Or you can just learn the 'basics' of Dan's Spread-Option offense instead... ;)

The option part means that the offense gains numbers advantages through having an extra guy able to carry the ball (the quarterback) and, if it so chooses, by leaving a defender unblocked for the quarterback to read. This is the basic philosophy of Mullen’s rushing attack in action. There will be time to get more detailed as the offseason goes along, but this is the starting point.

According to Meyer’s old authorized biography Urban’s Way, Meyer, Mullen, and Steve Addazio met right after the ’05 LSU loss and retooled the offense to include fullbacks, tight ends blocking on pass plays, and fewer four and five-wide sets. The point of the passing game, as Mullen sees it, is to force the opponent to spread out, defend every blade of grass from sideline to sideline, respect the pass, and shift to two-high safety sets – all so that his team can run the ball. (Perine-Davis-Pierce-Scarlett-Lemons-Iverson---Trask-Jones-Massey-Toney-Stephens-Lewis)

https://search.aol.com/aol/image;_ylt=AwrE1xvFSElbXmsAPAVpCWVH;_ylu=X3oDMTByMHVzM20zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMzBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?q=Dan+Mullen's+Spread+Offense&v_t=loki-tb-sb

From Utah, to UF, to MsSt, to UF...


This shows you all that you now know about Dan's offense, but not everything that he knows about how it has changed and developed over the last decade+. ;)


Willie Taggart 7 months ago
Even though he’s now the head man over in Gainesville I’ve always liked him and respected him. He’s definitely their best coach since UM.
 
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As long as the players can execute. Mac and them were big on trying to fool the defense supposedly and we saw how that worked out for us.
 
Or you can just learn the 'basics' of Dan's Spread-Option offense instead... ;)

The option part means that the offense gains numbers advantages through having an extra guy able to carry the ball (the quarterback) and, if it so chooses, by leaving a defender unblocked for the quarterback to read. This is the basic philosophy of Mullen’s rushing attack in action. There will be time to get more detailed as the offseason goes along, but this is the starting point.

According to Meyer’s old authorized biography Urban’s Way, Meyer, Mullen, and Steve Addazio met right after the ’05 LSU loss and retooled the offense to include fullbacks, tight ends blocking on pass plays, and fewer four and five-wide sets. The point of the passing game, as Mullen sees it, is to force the opponent to spread out, defend every blade of grass from sideline to sideline, respect the pass, and shift to two-high safety sets – all so that his team can run the ball. (Perine-Davis-Pierce-Scarlett-Lemons-Iverson---Trask-Jones-Massey-Toney-Stephens-Lewis)

https://search.aol.com/aol/image;_ylt=AwrE1xvFSElbXmsAPAVpCWVH;_ylu=X3oDMTByMHVzM20zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMzBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?q=Dan+Mullen's+Spread+Offense&v_t=loki-tb-sb

From Utah, to UF, to MsSt, to UF...


This shows you all that you now know about Dan's offense, but not everything that he knows about how it has changed and developed over the last decade+. ;)


Willie Taggart 7 months ago
Even though he’s now the head man over in Gainesville I’ve always liked him and respected him. He’s definitely their best coach since UM.


Curious to see what he does with Franks. In 2012 he didn't do any of that FB stuff hardly that was done with Leak even though he had a QB that wasn't a natural runner. Watching that 2012 highlight tape someone posted here he just kept it simple (Definitely didn't seem to be making the defense fear the long passing game that much) and passed a lot more than most of his teams have bringing in the backup QB to occasionally run the ball.

I don't think he used a FB in the spring game so it will be interesting to see what they actually do.
 
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1. Mullen said after the Spring game that no QB had won the starting job, even though Franks was given every advantage and opportunity to do so.

2. Others (including me) outside of the team, believe that means that if the incumbent starter could not win the job already, after being given every chance to do so, then he is no longer the favorite to be the Sept 1st starter.

Fall could change things,,, or not. So, now we all wait.... :cool:
 
Offensive Scheme's,,,, or Schemes that are Offensive? You make the call...

I was reading (skimming) a Tampa Times article on D1 Coaches Offensive Rankings.
Boy was that a waste of time, due to the apples and oranges SoS's the stats were gathered from. Any-who.... Mullen was #46, while Taggart was #77.
Means absolutely nothing as far as I could tell. :rolleyes:

Frost (AAC/UCF) and cow-Chip (Ore/LAC10 a decade ago) were both in the Top 10, and that means even less imo. :confused:

That got me to thinking about UCF fans and Frost claiming a NC for 2017.
And I went through all of that to get to this, I guess.... :D
Stats can matter, or not, depending on what they are and how they are used. :cool:
Cherry pickers have long known this, and used it often.... ;)

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Scott Frost Blasts Unfair Rankings That Kept Undefeated UCF Out of College Playoffs

http://www.tiebreaker.com/scott-frost-unfair-rankings-ucf/

Who did UCF Play in 2017 for their undefeated season?

Austin Peay D-2
3-9 ECa
3-9 U-Conn
4-8 Maryland
4-8 Cincy
That's 4 Total Losers + a D2
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7-6 Navy
7-6 Temple
7-6 S.Meth
8-5 FIU
That's 4 lower middle of the pack cupcakes
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Their tough wins?
10-2 USF/AAC
10-3 Memphis X2 AAC-C runner-up
10-4 Auburn SECw-C

Clemson played 3 teams with 10-10-13 wins, and 2 more with 9 wins.
Oklahoma played 5 teams with 10-11-11-12-13 wins.
Georgia played 5 teams with 10-10-10-12-13 wins, and 2 more with 9 wins.
Alabama played 4 teams with 10-10-12-13 wins, and 2 more with 9 wins.

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The simple reasons why UCF's NC claim is ludicrous... :D
Auburn 6 - 14 Clemson ACC-C 12-2 (+8)


Auburn 23 - 27 LSU 9-4 (+4)

Auburn 7 - 28 Georgia SEC-C (+21)

Auburn 27 - 34 UCF 13-0 (+7)

Both Clemson (+8) and Georgia (+21) had bigger wins vs Auburn than UCF (+7)

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12-2 Big12-C Oklahoma 48 - 54 Georgia 13-2 SEC-C (+6)

12-2 ACC-C & Defending 2016 NC Clemson 6 - 24 Alabama 13-1 (+18)

Just to get to the CFP Final :eek:

13-2 SEC-C Georgia 23 - 26 Alabama 13-1 (+3) CFP-NC

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So being 13-0 and beating a 10-4 SECw-C Auburn by a TD is a real nice season, it's still not D1 NC caliber football. Frost needs to WTF-Up,,, and then STF-Down,,, and STFU! o_O

Carry On.... :)
 
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