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[QUOTE="supp, post: 794565, member: 702"]
I understand growing pains and all but what I want to know is what was wrong with what we were running last year?  Yeah, coaches need to be comfortable running their own schemes but it's not like McDonald came here as a proven commodity with an offense that's put up big points and yards everywhere.  And from what I've seen, he doesn't seem to be averse to experimentation.  In fact, I can't tell exactly what kind of offense he's actually trying to run out there from week to week.  Why not go with what the kids in the program know and understand?  Why not go with what was successful last year?  Confusion and high tempo don't mix.  And if we don't have an advantage physically or athletically, as many claim, it would seem that high tempo is one way to make up for that.  Or at least that was the formula last year.

The problem that McDonald seems to have is one that many folks have (and not just in football).  He seems to equate innovation with success and career advancement.  But it's actually doing things successfully (even simple things) that brings you career advancement.  It doesn't matter if you invented the technique, it's whether you perfected it.
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