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The 2010 Goal Line Offense: Interesting Trends
I decided to take a closer look at the trends of the 2010 Oklahoma Sooners' goal line offense today. Kevin Wilson received a bit of criticism last year about his playcalling, and I think that dates back as far as the goal line failures against the Florida Gators in the 2008 BCS National...
Deep Analysis: Predictability, Thy Name is Florida
If it feels like watching Florida's offense is like listening to a broken record, fear not. There's a good reason for that. Thanks to any number of reasons relating to youth, inexperience, injuries, suspensions, or anything else you'd like to cite, Florida's offense has been fairly predictable. I...
Arkansas Razorbacks 31, Georgia Bulldogs 24: The Evening After the Afternoon Before
To a large extent, this postgame writeup is superfluous, as most of the points contained herein were covered (mostly by others, but, to a minimal degree, by me) in the game day open comment thread, the Todd Grantham points allowed countdown, and MaconDawg’s postgame rundown, but, hey, I spent the...
In Support of Random Play Calling
Chris at Smart Football has discussed the merits of calling plays randomly on a couple occasions, including earlier this month where he found some support for it from Bill Walsh. Essentially, the argument in favor of it breaks down like this: in a game where everyone is trying to out-think one...
The Players Hint At Dissent: What First Downs Have To Say About It
Some of the players on the team have been quoted discussing internal strife over play calling. It was a topic after the Iowa game, in which it seemed like the coaches weren't playing to win. Well now it sounds like the players are echoing some of the sentiment expressed on the interweb over the...
Theorems and Stratagems of the Game, Week 6: Tony a Tiger? Maybe not for long
For those of you unfamiliar with Theorems and Stratagems of the Game, which debuted over at Garnet and Black Attack, it's a weekly look at some of the not-so-great coaching moves from around the country with an emphasis on the SEC. And one of our favorites, Tony Franklin, provides a case study this...
Spurrier back as offensive coordinator
Steve Spurrier today announced he was re-hiring Steve Spurrier as offensive coordinator, capping off a bizarre several months during which Steve Spurrier has said that both Steve Spurrier Sr. and Steve Spurrier Jr. would serve as primary play-callers. In other words, that didn't take long. This...
gamecocks 2008: Changing of the Guard
Here's an experiment for you. Go to Google and do a search for "spurrier jr play calling." See how many articles you can pull up on the subject. In the annual ritual that has become the preseason Steve Spurrier story, the purported relinquishing of the play-calling duties to Steve Spurrier Jr....
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