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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1266379, member: 289"]
Sports, especially football tend to be cyclical. teams figure out how to attack existing defensive concepts. Everybody switches over to the new style of offense. Defenses adjust to try to stop that style. Then somebody "reinvents" something they used to do that attacks the weaknesses of the adjusted defenses. The option, (a rugby play) disappears and comes bck. The middle guard/nose tackle disappears and then reappears. The 4-3 becomes the 3-4 and them becomes the 4-3 again. The 53 defense, the 46 defense, the cover 2, then something else.

For several years, the emphasis has been on making the defense cover the whole field with the spread offense. Hit 'em where they ain't. Why can't we have an offense like that in Syracuse? Defenses have responded with an emphasis on speed, disguising coverages, etc. Southern teams have dominated because that's where the speed is.

Then Ohio State bludgeons their way to a national championship with a 250 pound quarterback and a 225 pound running back. Alabama. they were the first northern team to win the title in a dozen years. Alabama had had a reputation for winning championships, the old fashioned way: dominating up front. North Dakota State has had similar success in FCS for the same reason. Whitewater State has done the same in Division III. Now I look at the NFL playoffs and see Marshawn Lynch, Eddie Lacey and LeGarrett Blount pounding away.

I think Ben Schwartzwalder and Woody Hayes would enjoy watching this. Maybe there's hope for old-fashioned football after all. (Until the defenses adjust to it, of course.)
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