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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1534523, member: 780"]
A number of years ago I read an article that said that Pasqualoni and DeLeone (?) decided that SU would not be able to compete against the better teams on their schedule with a vanilla offense. The opposition's players were better than ours. So to offset this weakness in personnel, P & D installed a very complex offense that included lots of option football. Their faith was in the system and not the individual players.

It's not been demonstrated to me that we can recruit to and run the system you would like to see. in fact, I'm guessing that teams like FSU and Clemson are almost always going to be faster and more athletic. Maybe that's due to me watching the last 20 year's of SU QB ineptitude (with a few exceptions) It's almost as if the coaching staffs we have had decided that the QB position was Unimportant because I have seen lots of second stringers on other teams that I thought were better than our first-teamer.

So the system that would appear to work with slightly slower, slightly less athletic players is the option or a system with lots of option football in it.
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