FHCDM became a better coach when

[chakka3421]

he simplified the playbook in the later years. He admitted that while he could run hundreds of plays from his playbook, there was never enough time on the college level to teach the kids all of those plays versus the Pros where it's a full time job. So the playbook was reduced to 30ish base plays to run against any team with up to a dozen unique plays for the week based upon the opposition defensive strengths.

One key ingredient was that he didn't want players "thinking" about how to run a play versus "knowing and recognizing" assignments to make a play go off as successfully as possible. What he learned it was more valuable to have his kids run as many REPS with the SAME personnel on the college level (both in practice and in game) so all players would begin trusting one another versus relying on some tricky playbook or one particular scheme. He was also a lineman and a line coach and that was what he believed was the most important building block to run any offense.

So what does HCSS do? Hire a OL coach with extensive OL experience right? He allows OCGM to run the full bore(ing) offensive with multiple groups of players - 5 rbs really? How many trick plays are we going to learn in practice? What about first team reps in practice? Anyone wonder why our bubble screen never seems to work? My question would be how many reps do we run to get that play to work like ND runs it?

The definition of insanity is a meathead coaching staff that won't change or even worse, doesn't know how to change or reinvent itself. That is even a bigger concern of mine the inability to change.

 

[OrangePA]

What made Marrone a great coach in my opinion was not only his knowledge, but his toughness and most important, the fact that he ran the program with an iron fist.

I wonder if Scott is running the program in that manner.

 

[bothsocksup]

love the post, you are right on so many levels. The offense looks overwhelmed with formations and packages that have slowed our hurry up to a offense that should be huddling. The kids looked confused, and for a guy like Hunt i think its best to keep the options limited. The exctic formations might look cool, but its just too much. I used to get annoyed with marrones boring under center, 2 te sets with a single reicver, but ya know what, it was simple and sometimes simple is sexy

 

[Millhouse]

love the post, you are right on so many levels. The offense looks overwhelmed with formations and packages that have slowed our hurry up to a offense that should be huddling. The kids looked confused, and for a guy like Hunt i think its best to keep the options limited. The exctic formations might look cool, but its just too much. I used to get annoyed with marrones boring under center, 2 te sets with a single reicver, but ya know what, it was simple and sometimes simple is sexy

Are there really that many formations though?