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OT: Gus’ 10 commandments need to be discussed here

meh...
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EDIT: Gus would be OUT @#7
 
didn't disagree with too much other stuff in there though except I kind of think this bit contradicts itself
Malzahn said he runs his power to the right and his counter to the left because, when designing this offense in the Arkansas high school ranks, he decided to put his two best lineman on the right side and run behind them as often as possible.

“I’ve seen a lot of schemes where they’re asking their quarterback to do something he can’t do,” Malzahn said. “But that coach, that’s all he knows.”
 
I do think though that his philosophy about trying to practice a minimum amount a plays till you can execute them perfectly is why his teams either blow out squads or look absolutely helpless. If those plays aren't working, then he's literally not repped any other ones. so he just keeps having to call a bunch of shit that he knows the other team can stop or calling shit that he's barely had the team practice.
 
Part I hate the most:

We run power to the right, counter to the left yada yada yada

The head coach I used to work for came back from listening to Gus and decided we were going to run 4 blocking assignments all year.

Coach: "If it is good enough for Auburn, it's good enough for us."
Me: "Great, when did we get the next Nick Marshall?"

He got fired two years later.
 
Many HS and college coaches are some of the dumbest people on the planet.

Some are dumb, but the bigger problem in my opinion is ego. They start to think it has more to do with them then some crucial aspect and then they get away from what has worked because they think as long as they are calling the plays they will be fine.

Offensive guys are the worst with that. I heard a really good DC talk one time and he was like "Offensive guys think they are so smart. They're gonna dial up their awesome plays. And they want to use all their awesome plays. Defensive guys just want to stop you. If they could call one defense and stop everything, they would call it every time 1000 times in a row."
 
I do think though that his philosophy about trying to practice a minimum amount a plays till you can execute them perfectly is why his teams either blow out squads or look absolutely helpless. If those plays aren't working, then he's literally not repped any other ones. so he just keeps having to call a bunch of shit that he knows the other team can stop or calling shit that he's barely had the team practice.
The more I read this the more angry I get at the Clemson losses. How much time was wasted "perfecting" the single wing Cox run?
 
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