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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 279733" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>I think we are an option school now and we'll hire someone with experience on Coach's staff when he leaves. </p><p></p><p>We're like GSU. They hired away from the option when they hired Van Gorder and they payed for that for years. We have the players to make the O work now and it would be a long dry spell to re-recruit the entire program. I'm betting (and hoping) that won't happen.</p><p></p><p>We're also like the academies. By all rights, Tech shouldn't be a Power5 school. We need to have an edge somewhere and the O is where we have it. It is, as I've said before, <em>Moneyball</em> football; we recruit for players who fit us like a glove, but wouldn't work in a "normal" O. Mills is a good example. He's absolutely perfect as a BB, but he'd be at LB at other Power5 schools. We got him because he wants to run and we'll give him the chance. That's the edge we need to make the program work. It also helps that our O doesn't need a superman at the skill positions. It is based on scheming for yardage, not getting a prime athlete out where he can overwhelm the opposition. (Helps to have those guys, of course.) That edge means that our D recruiting problems don't hamstring us as much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 279733, member: 265"] I think we are an option school now and we'll hire someone with experience on Coach's staff when he leaves. We're like GSU. They hired away from the option when they hired Van Gorder and they payed for that for years. We have the players to make the O work now and it would be a long dry spell to re-recruit the entire program. I'm betting (and hoping) that won't happen. We're also like the academies. By all rights, Tech shouldn't be a Power5 school. We need to have an edge somewhere and the O is where we have it. It is, as I've said before, [I]Moneyball[/I] football; we recruit for players who fit us like a glove, but wouldn't work in a "normal" O. Mills is a good example. He's absolutely perfect as a BB, but he'd be at LB at other Power5 schools. We got him because he wants to run and we'll give him the chance. That's the edge we need to make the program work. It also helps that our O doesn't need a superman at the skill positions. It is based on scheming for yardage, not getting a prime athlete out where he can overwhelm the opposition. (Helps to have those guys, of course.) That edge means that our D recruiting problems don't hamstring us as much. [/QUOTE]
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