Here is the Bio on Gary Smits:
"I have been in journalism for 43 years, since I began working for a weekly newspaper in Maryland at the age of 15 covering my high school football team (the mighty Cougars of Thomas Stone High, the pride of Waldorf, Md.). I first worked in Florida at the Clay Today in Orange Park from 1981-1982, and I have been with Morris Communications for 32 years.
I covered the Northside for the former community news publication of the Times-Union, The Neighbor, was the sports editor for the St. Augustine Record from 1984-1988, covered high schools for the Times-Union from 1988-1990, and then covered Florida State and Florida A&M athletics from 1990-1995. Since 1995, I have covered golf and the Gator Bowl, and assisted with our coverage of the Jaguars. I currently cover the Florida Gators and the Florida State Seminoles."
What he is unable to understand about football given that he probably played as much as Erin Andrews and Sam Ponder did; is that it basically comes down to who has the beef in the trenches. Always has, and always will. While this NCAA hurry up spread offense was developed as an equalizer for teams that had no linemen to run the football, ANY offense will be successful with the right pieces. That being said, these pass happy spread offenses from the shotgun are abysmal failures inside the 10 yard line as you are already giving the defenses another 7 yards in their favor before the ball is even snapped. Look at Clemson v. FSU for a prefect example of their inability to get under center and attack the LOS.
This 7 on 7 pass happy spread offense looks real good until it gets deeper into the red zone, then their inability to run the football from under center really begins to show up. If our offense was the dinosauer he claims, then why can't five stars stop it? Not disciplined? Every defense plays assignment football against the offense. This verbiage about we have to be disciplined against GT is becoming quite comical. Do defenses just line up wherever they feel like against any other offense?
What the GT offense is great at doing is making a defense pay when their players try to guess where the ball is going and looking around for the football as opposed to tackling the B-Back every play on the dive whether he has the ball or not. If Gary Smits says our offense is a dinosauer then so is discipline on defenses.
Plug in an Earl Campbell or Bo Jackson at B-Back and see what will happen. The wishbone would be successful today provided a coach understands how to implement it. This article is amusing as discipline wins games in any sport. Just look at the SanAntonio Spurs in the NBA. They run a boring offense and win Championships. Dinosauers indeed
