SMART FOOTBALL ON BAMA AND FLORIDA
EDSBS —
... If you have no balls, i.e. you are female, then apply a heavy object to the balls of the man closest to you. When he grabs his jumblies and collapses to the ground asking “WHYYYYYYY?”, just nod at him and say, “You know why,” and then walk away. He’ll understand, even if he doesn’t and eventually bleeds out internally from the injuries.
Smart Football already had a brilliant piece on Saban’s defense; you may now add to it the companion piece on Urban Meyer’s offense, which Chris sums up beautifully:
If ...
Unverified Voracity Asks Why
mgoblog —
... Kelly isn't an option there are precious few available coaches who strike me as fearsome. There's no Urban out there, and programs like Tennessee are reaching for guys like Lane Kiffin. Maybe next year someone will emerge.
*(Whenever anyone mentions "Nippert Stadium" I'm reminded of that scene in Christmas Vacation wherein Chevy Chase unleashes a torrent of accidental innuendos at a hot chick in the mall.)
Etc.: Smart Football on the Urban Meyer offense; some references to Rodriguez. A recap of the WLA-RBUAS mini-war ...
Urban Meyer’s Offense Courtesy of Smart Football
The Bull Gator —
... , I stumbled across a link to Smart Football and now couldn’t be happier with what I’ve found. For those of you interested in the finer points of how football actually works and would love to know what’s behind the Florida Gators’ high-powered offense, head on over. It’s worth it.
Weekend Links with Jon Marthaler
Randball —
... ? *If you had to pick somebody to write 4,700 more about the Florida Gators offense — its genesis under Urban Meyer, his influences, and some technical commentary about how and why it works — wouldn’t it be Chris Brown of the Smart Football blog ? (The first comment on that post says, simply, “dear god i love this blog”. I’d have to agree — if there’s a better pure football blog out there, I don’t know about it.) *Required hockey links: First, ...
Championship newsstand: Last-minute OU-Florida reading
Dr. Saturday —
• As usual, your football reading should begin with Smart Football, whose championship roundup includes SF's recent breakdown of Urban Meyer's offense, notes on Oklahoma's clobbering of Texas Tech and thoughts on what it means to be a "national champion," anyway.
• AccuScore has simulated the game 10,000 times based on statistical probabilities, with Florida winning almost 57 percent of the time by an average score of 39.1 to 36.4. Expect big things from Tebow, Bradford, ...
Unverified Voracity Goes For Superlatives
mgoblog —
... , the spread-to-run innovators included Rodriguez and Kevin Wilson and Randy Walker at Northwestern, with Urban Meyer following shortly after. Wilson is now at OU and of course Meyer is at Florida. Compare their offenses with Rodriguez's: there's not much difference from a run-game standpoint (though Meyer and OU mix up their sets a bit more and use more tight-ends now), but the passing games have seen a wide departure. Wilson now uses what Chuck Long put in at OU, with some schematic residue lingering from Mike Leach and Mark Mangino, while Meyer, along with Dan Mullen and Mike ...
Freshman Contributors: Barrett Matthews
Burnt Orange Nation —
... triple option that Urban Meyer favors at Florida to get Aaron Hernandez the ball and has fans lathered up hoping their offensive coordinators incorporate the play.
Shovel Option (via jkocurek14)
Urban Meyer actually recruited Matthews a bit before he committed to Texas, opening up the possibility that Meyer did see the North Shore product as an H-back in his system.
Here's why Meyer has gone to more H-backs recently:
It is also worth noting that Meyer has used ...
Deconstructing: Nevada's 'Pistol,' by any other name, would fire as sweet
Dr. Saturday —
... When the offense is rolling (which it is most of the time these days), the pistol gives a team the best of both worlds: It has at its disposal all the Urban Meyer/Rich Rodriguez spread offense stuff, like the ...
Morning Reading: The Spread Offense, 50 Years in the Making
The Bull Gator —
... Although Meyer is typically given a lot of credit for the spread (for more on how the Gators’ version of the offense operates, visit Smart Football), it has had its mark over football for quite some time. And it doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon. Coaches recruit speed on offense to run the spread. And those same coaches recruit speed on defense to stop it. Take one look at the Big 12 – where seven teams run it – and you’ll see how difficult it is to defend. Expect to see plenty of it during 2009 and expect the offensive fireworks to ...
RT Package Reprisal: Home-Run Threat DeSean Hales
Burnt Orange Nation —
... . With the speed that Harvin possesses, Aaron Hernandez, the Florida h-back on the play, doesn't even need to throw a strong block, as getting in the way was all the crease Harvin needed (and making it more of a counter trey). Second, Florida actually has a counter step on the play, which greatly helps the timing. And there's also Percy Harvin running the ball -- that makes it a little more effective, too. ...
Catching Up With The Spread
mgoblog —
... Now that it's established that the spread offense is not obsolete, we should determine whether that is even a possibility. Is the spread offense successful only because of its novelty? As Smart Football says: ...
Deconstructing: In search of Juice's main squeeze at Illinois
Dr. Saturday —
... Thus the parallels with Tebow's glorious Heisman-winning sophomore season. As good as Tebow was, for the team to get better in 2008 he needed more help, and that meant he could not be options one, two and three in the run game. To Urban Meyer's credit, he did it. And the way he did it was instructive, as it gave Tebow support yet still didn't hang the Gators' fortunes on one featured ballcarrier. Can the Zooker be so flexible? ...
ASK A FREAKIN’ GENIUS: SMART FOOTBALL ON ZONE/MAN BLITZES
EDSBS —
... This is one of those simple questions that get to the very core of how defense is played. The blitz — which I’ll define here as any defense that rushes five or more defenders — is where the action is in modern football. Defenses can’t sit back and wait, because offenses are too good, whether it is a run-first spread, a ...
SMART FOOTBALL ON WHAT MAKES AN OFFENSE TERRIBLE
EDSBS —
... reasons, they had an identity crisis. But this problem is not just germane to coaching changes or new offensive coordinators. Often, teams that have been fine try to “update” their offenses with the new-new thing, and more often than not they regress. There’s a completely true old coaching adage that it is less important what system you run than it is the fact that you have a system, preferably one that you know well and can coach. Hence an offense like Urban Meyer’s works for a lot of reasons, but one reason is that the entire team is ...
Daddy, what causes offensive suckitude?
Get The Picture —
... among other reasons, they had an identity crisis. But this problem is not just germane to coaching changes or new offensive coordinators. Often, teams that have been fine try to “update” their offenses with the new-new thing, and more often than not they regress. There’s a completely true old coaching adage that it is less important what system you run than it is the fact that you have a system, preferably one that you know well and can coach. Hence an offense like Urban Meyer’s works for a lot of reasons, but one reason is that the entire team is completely ...
Monte Kiffin’s scheme for Urban Meyer’s offense
Smart Football —
... Much of the offseason chatter around the SEC centered on how the legendary Monte Kiffin, now the defensive coordinator for the University of Tennessee under his son, Lane, would deal with the extremely productive but decidedly “college” (in a good way) Florida Gator spread offense, orchestrated and designed by Urban Meyer. ...
Deconstructing: How Florida tackles Empty Tebow Syndrome
Dr. Saturday —
... is a fox, Brantley is a hedgehog: He is a classic pocket passer, and that's what he does well. A star recruit out of Ocala, Fla., Brantley has inspired not only early faith among his teammates, but also hyperbolic commentary from the faithful that, had Tebow left for the NFL, Brantley still would have been the second-best quarterback in the SEC coming into the year, behind only Jevan Snead at Ole Miss. Yet, no matter how talented he is, Brantley still has to find a way to fit into Urban Meyer's run-first spread, designed for foxes like Tebow. ...
