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Message: [QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 1191582, member: 860"] First of all, if everyone is doing it, then that means to be a winning program we have to be able to do what they are doing better than they are. Better talent, better scheme. I don't think we can. Second, everyone isn't doing it. The conferences and teams that recruit primarily in areas (FL, TX, CA) with elite speed and quickness do. Most B1G teams don't run a hurry up spread. BC and Pitt don't. They play to the strengths of their core recruiting areas. You don't need 4 star talent. You do need to be as quick or quicker on the outside than the guys you're lining up against. If the goal of your offense is to get one man in space with the ball and ask him to make a play, then he damn well better be able to beat at least the one free man closest to him. How many times this year have we seen guys catch the ball behind the LOS and stutter step three times while two defenders (one of whom has beaten a block) come crashing down on him for no gain? MAC teams don't have 4 star athletes, but they have some success with this type of offense against MAC and Sun Belt competition. They would never compete running this type of offense in the ACC or Big XII. We aren't going to win the ACC running this type of offense with the talent we have, nor will we win it running this offense with the talent we are likely to get. If we were still in the BE/AAC, we probably could. We have improved recruiting in FL, but we still only have 14 kids on the entire roster from FL. None of them chose SU over FSU, UF, or Miami. We are getting FL kids with high mid-major and low P5 offers. They ARE faster than the guys we were getting out of PA and NY, but that's not going to help us win ACC games by trying to match speed with speed. Most of our roster is made up of kids from the northeast and midwest...areas not known for athletes with elite speed. As much as everybody wants to "use the dome to our advantage" and run 5-wides "like everybody else", I think we need to be realistic about our core recruiting areas and the talent they produce, and then play to those strengths. The only way SU becomes a 10-win program (which I doubt ever happens, but let's aim high for the sake of argument) is to either 1) out-recruit southern schools for southern speed athletes and run the no huddle spread, or 2) to run a different type of offense that lets you control the LOS, put multiple blockers at the point of attack, and force the defense to commit more men inside. GA Tech wins games this way, and everyone hates them for it because they don't use the forward pass. If we could win 8 games a year and average more than 15 PPG against P5 teams, I wouldn't care at this point if we run the Veer. [/QUOTE]

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