How are Tim Tebow and Cam Newton's SEC TITLE winning spread offenses much different than anyone else's? How come the sissy dink & dunk offenses in the Big 12 ALSO won titles? The same spread offense A&M themselves run 3/4 of the time thats ENABLED them to even be relevant enough to make the SEC jump? Biting the spread that feeds
There are two kinds of spread offense. The running quarterback spread, the spread option. And the Air-raid spread run by Texas Tech. The spread with the running QB has proven to be a winner if you got the right QB (VY,Tebow,Newton) But the air-raid spread is a gimmicky offense, that almost always gets slowed down when faced with truly good defenses. This option is the one so popular in the big 12.
Is it that one is better than the other, or is simply that the teams that are succeeding at the highest levels are the ones with the better talent? Put Mike Leach's system with Texas' talent and you might get different results.
I don't think sips understand how impactful us going to the SEC could be for them. They want to dismiss us as the lesser child. If we stop playing Texas, it gets better for our recruiting. We no longer have to compete directly against Texas, which we haven't been great at, to get players. We have something that they don't have for the first time ever: Come play in the best conference in football, and stay at home. Sips can keep on saying we are going to get our ass kicked, which probably hold some validity, but guess what happens when Alabama comes into Kyle Field, we have 80,000+ screaming their asses off, and it is a close game? Can Texas offer that? What about the next weekend when LSU is in town? Florida? You have your game with OU in Dallas, you have one good OOC game with a home and away. Then you had us. Two good games a year. I sincerely hope this is the last year we play you douchebags. We will kick your teeth in on Thanksgiving and ride off into the sunset.
Lol and when you lose year in and year out, you're gonna go to the "well we play in a harder conference" excuse
If Mike Leach had UT's talent he wouldn't have to resort to gimmickry. Running is better even to this day. Teams with talent don't use it because they don't have too. If you have talent you use a real offense. Just look at the National Champions, all very run heavy.
What exactly is gimmicky about it that's not gimmicky about other spread offenses? The principle is simple: out-scheme your opponent, identify the open receiver, and have a QB that knows how to make all the proper reads. If you have a better O-Line, you simply get more time in the pocket. If you have better WRs, you get them open more. If you have a better RB, you can mix in the run more effectively. Leach's teams DID run the ball - their Ricky Williams was a very effective RB. They just used the pass to set up the run. OU in 2000 wasn't run-heavy. Nor were Steve Spurrier's fun-and-gun teams. UT's near championship teams in 2008 & 2009 not only weren't run-heavy, but they had miserably bad running games. USC in 2004 had a good running game, but it was definitely pass-focused with a Heisman type QB and top flight receivers. LSU's 2007 title team wasn't particularly run-focused.
Lol and when you start losing five star recruits to your lesser brother, A&M, you'll be using the "but . . . but . . . we're T-t-t-t-texas . . ." excuse. I don't even think you read my post. But, I don't have any more time to deal with you arrogant pricks. I have a game that actually means something tomorrow.
When you don't have enough W's to show for it and become the Vanderbilt of the SEC west, the 80k+ will be screaming something else. Before any games are played, however, the future looks rosy for A&M, following Nebraska's footsteps to a more financially profitable conference while giving Texas the bird. Keep in mind though, Big10 is no SEC, and A&M is no Nebraska. What's your excuse of getting out-recruited by OU 10 out of the last 11 years? Not being facetious, but I'm more worried about losing recruits to LSU, and Bama/Auburn to a lesser extent, mainly due to geographical reasons. If OU is that successful in the state of Texas, I have little doubt that SEC teams will have similar success within a couple of years.
We fill the stadium no matter how ****ty our team is. Kyle Field is an experience. Of course there will be stealing of recruits from other states. But when a kid wants to be close to home and play, and has a choice between Texas and the Big9 and A&M and the SEC, the decision gets tougher. You wouldn't agree?
Caveat: I did not go to Texas. Yes, I'm a fan and have been of both schools most of my life. But it's posts like this that make me lean orange. How do you figure? Do you really think that's a greater selling point than "Come play at Texas where you can actually win and play in BCS games."? They'll be screaming for the first quarter...until it's Alabama/LSU/Florida 33 - A&M 0 at halftime. Nebraska, Tech, OSU all disagree. All consistently better than A&M has been in the 2000's. Don't let the sunset burn you in the ass on the way out.
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