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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 912540" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>Pitt does run an offense like everyone else's--but not as well Alabama, and with the occasional fullback. Cincinnati has an RPO-heavy spread. You can be really successful being just about like the other guys. I think they've both shown that you can put together a good to great team without an exotic offense or defense by being a coach focused on fundamentals. I think Key can do that. He might be really good. He might be a Fickell kind of coach</p><p></p><p>I'd rather watch a fun offense and a fun defense. I liked the flexbone because CPJ could make it work really well. I like what Coastal Carolina does because Chadwell and Korn make it run really well, not because of the route trees (but I'll check out how they run because they run really well). I like what Wake does because they make it run really well. Tennessee's offense actually looked boring to me, but I give them credit for running it really well, and I'd be happy with it as a fan if our OC was someone who loved it and made it run really well.</p><p></p><p>I know that Long is hampered by some things, like not having a young Tony Gonzalez or Pitts right now, and sub-par blocking, but I'm also not convinced he can make his offense run better than whoever is on the other sideline. Maybe he can, but I haven't seen it so far.</p><p></p><p>I'd be happy if Key found his Friedgen (and a good OL coach) and the defense improved from where they are this year. Like Techster said, I'd be happy if he got Korn from CC. Just get better every game and I'm pretty happy.</p><p></p><p>In offenses and defenses, there are guys who copy other guys, and there are guys who know how to be artists with what they do. Most of the coaches are copying someone else, but not as well. Gimme an OC and a DC that will make their system their own and bring their own style to it. CPJ did that, and Chadwell and Korn do that. Tenuta did that on defense. Leach does that. Kiffin does too. But, I think OCs and DC should be opinionated--that makes for fun football.</p><p></p><p>When an OC shows up and just will run whatever the HC says to run, that's where you get a mediocre offense. (The HC and the coordinators better be aligned on the way to run a team, though, or it just won't work)</p><p></p><p>But what I'm saying about "don't try to be Alabama-lite" is that we're not going to outspend FSU or Auburn or LSU. Even if Batt is a financial fundraising genius, they're decades ahead in building donorship. Trying to recruit more 5-star players than Bama and Florida and Clemson and Tennessee and a ton of the schools around us is folly. We can recruit really well, and in fact we can recruit great, but we're not going to out-talent Clemson and Georgia on a day to day basis.</p><p></p><p>But having the 5th most talent in the ACC ought to get you a bunch of wins and a d*mn good-looking team. We can do THAT. And we can have our own style and be unique. Cincinnati recruits "worse" than us but was in the playoffs in recent memory because they have a system and a process and good coaching and training.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 912540, member: 282"] Pitt does run an offense like everyone else's--but not as well Alabama, and with the occasional fullback. Cincinnati has an RPO-heavy spread. You can be really successful being just about like the other guys. I think they've both shown that you can put together a good to great team without an exotic offense or defense by being a coach focused on fundamentals. I think Key can do that. He might be really good. He might be a Fickell kind of coach I'd rather watch a fun offense and a fun defense. I liked the flexbone because CPJ could make it work really well. I like what Coastal Carolina does because Chadwell and Korn make it run really well, not because of the route trees (but I'll check out how they run because they run really well). I like what Wake does because they make it run really well. Tennessee's offense actually looked boring to me, but I give them credit for running it really well, and I'd be happy with it as a fan if our OC was someone who loved it and made it run really well. I know that Long is hampered by some things, like not having a young Tony Gonzalez or Pitts right now, and sub-par blocking, but I'm also not convinced he can make his offense run better than whoever is on the other sideline. Maybe he can, but I haven't seen it so far. I'd be happy if Key found his Friedgen (and a good OL coach) and the defense improved from where they are this year. Like Techster said, I'd be happy if he got Korn from CC. Just get better every game and I'm pretty happy. In offenses and defenses, there are guys who copy other guys, and there are guys who know how to be artists with what they do. Most of the coaches are copying someone else, but not as well. Gimme an OC and a DC that will make their system their own and bring their own style to it. CPJ did that, and Chadwell and Korn do that. Tenuta did that on defense. Leach does that. Kiffin does too. But, I think OCs and DC should be opinionated--that makes for fun football. When an OC shows up and just will run whatever the HC says to run, that's where you get a mediocre offense. (The HC and the coordinators better be aligned on the way to run a team, though, or it just won't work) But what I'm saying about "don't try to be Alabama-lite" is that we're not going to outspend FSU or Auburn or LSU. Even if Batt is a financial fundraising genius, they're decades ahead in building donorship. Trying to recruit more 5-star players than Bama and Florida and Clemson and Tennessee and a ton of the schools around us is folly. We can recruit really well, and in fact we can recruit great, but we're not going to out-talent Clemson and Georgia on a day to day basis. But having the 5th most talent in the ACC ought to get you a bunch of wins and a d*mn good-looking team. We can do THAT. And we can have our own style and be unique. Cincinnati recruits "worse" than us but was in the playoffs in recent memory because they have a system and a process and good coaching and training. [/QUOTE]
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