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[QUOTE="Crusty, post: 1214028, member: 2265"]
I am a realist and am resigned to the fact that Shafer will run the offense that he [B]can[/B] run with the talent at hand. He tried the N-Zone thing and if it had gotten us to another bowl, he would have stayed with it.  Shafer needs to get to a bowl next year in order to hang onto his job and I am afraid the safest way for him to do that is to try and win ugly.We do not have the talent to run anything else and now he doesn't have the time to recruit players that can.

The defense is in good hands. (I think people may be surprised to find it better next year than this year.) I think Shafer and Lester are preparing to deploy a run first, possession type offense.  Control the clock, maintain field position and win the turnover battle. He also has a decent kicker now with range, which he didn't have the last two seasons, which only adds to the plan.

Shafer is who he is, like all of us, a product of his experiences. The best program he was a part of was Stanford and his worst experience was Michigan under Rich Rod. That says a lot to me. He tried the Rich Rod thing and now I think he will return to his smash mouth Midwestern roots and run something akin to Stanford. All the earmarks are there.

It is what it is and all we can do is hope that they do a good job running whatever they come up with.
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