bama's formations vs wash st's

[Millhouse]

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/20...e-football-playbook-simple-complex-formations

click on each school to see charts of their different formations

WSU is always shotgun, usually 1 back, 4 wide, sometimes 2 backs 3 wide

(Arizona's another school wtih very few formations)

Alabama does every formation under the sun

Big question to solve in college football is how do you get all the offensive benefits of a simple offense trained repeatedly to perfection vs running a multiple offense that trains your defense for everything they might come across. I think it makes sense for Bama to train their defense because they will always be able to move the ball just through being bigger and faster than everyone. It also makes sense for WSU to go higher risk and assume their defense is going to stink no matter what

Reminds me of WVU in 2011 not knowing what to do against SU even though SU wasn't that good. totally unprepared on defense. but should they abandon that offense or is that letting the perfect be the enemy of the good?

It's too bad offenses and defenses from different conferences couldn't practice against each other for short stints.

 

[Alsacs]

WSU's defense stinks because Leach does what WVU did under Rich-Rod thru this year and put all the recruiting speed on one side of the ball and didn't balance the team out. WVU sucked because their defense didn't have the same speed that its offense had and they were undersized.

Good link though. Bama is wrong if they never go into the shotgun during obvious passing downs because teams can stuff the A gap with 2 LBs and force quick passes. That is one of the reasons Louisville beat Syracuse in 2010. Charlie Strong knew Ryan Bartholomew couldn't shotgun snaps to Nassib so on 3rd downs he flooded the A gap with 2 LBs and blitzed and Nassib had no chance because he was under center. Teams needs to be able to play under and in the shotgun just to give the defense multiple looks.

 

[Millhouse]

WSU's defense stinks because Leach does what WVU did under Rich-Rod thru this year and put all the recruiting speed on one side of the ball and didn't balance the team out. WVU sucked because their defense didn't have the same speed that its offense had and they were undersized.

Good link though. Bama is wrong if they never go into the shotgun during obvious passing downs because teams can stuff the A gap with 2 LBs and force quick passes. That is one of the reasons Louisville beat Syracuse in 2010. Charlie Strong knew Ryan Bartholomew couldn't shotgun snaps to Nassib so on 3rd downs he flooded the A gap with 2 LBs and blitzed and Nassib had no chance because he was under center. Teams needs to be able to play under and in the shotgun just to give the defense multiple looks.

i don't think it's just speed. every air raid team stinks on defense they can't all be slow

the blue pie pieces for bama are shotgun, they go shotgun plenty

off topic but it's funny how many people used to think you couldn't run out of the shotgun or with 3 or 4 wide

 

[Alsacs]

i don't think it's just speed. every air raid team stinks on defense they can't all be slow

the blue pie pieces for bama are shotgun, they go shotgun plenty

off topic but it's funny how many people used to think you couldn't run out of the shotgun or with 3 or 4 wide

Leach during the Crabtree years wasmaking strides at being balanced. Ruffin McNeil was the D-Coordinator at Texas Tech under Leach he is now the HC at East Carolina and they played defense especially in 2008.

Tech was playing some defense and were really good those years. They finished top 15 multiple times. If Leach didn't do whatever to Craig James kid the Red Raiders were building something under his watch.

Makes sense Bama shotgun as Kiffin runs a pro style offense.