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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1213894, member: 40"]
I assure you that no opinion I express on a message board will have any impact on what happens on the football field. 
 
But honestly--I don't care what we run anymore.  I'm tired of the ineptitude.  I'm tired of not being able to score points.  I'm tired of the games being tediously boring because our offense sucks.  I'm tired of getting embarrassed playing against peer programs like Pitt and BC and getting run off the field, when those teams aren't that much better than us.
 
When I isay that I don't care what we run, I mean that genuinely.  As you know, I used to bang the drum about air raid--bitched about it for years.  Now?  Run the wishbone for all I care.  The key is for the staff to COMMIT to something and actually build toward it.  That means having the right coaches in place, committing to the right system, recruiting the right players, etc.
 
The problem as I see it is that we had a bunch of generally poor coaches who didn't have a clue about offense.  That isn't true of Marrone, and he had some personnel limitations during his time here, but he only put together one solid season of offensive performance--which was coincidentally our ONLY solid season of offensive play in more than a decade.  And you know what?  It was fun as hell to see us score points.  Even though we lost to USC, I felt like we could compete with them because we could move the ball.  That Missouri game [after the first quarter] was a blast to watch.  As was us blowing the doors off of WVU in the bowl.
 
Shafer doesn't seem to have a clue what kind of offense he wants to run, which is strange because he used to be a QB.  He's a windsock.  What I don't care about is what that ends up being, just so long as they commit and put the coaches in place to make it work.
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