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Defenses Slowing Down New-Fangled Offenses
Topic Started: Oct 29 2009, 06:52 AM (120 Views)
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National notes: Defenses finally cooling offenses' heels

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Passing, rushing, total offense and scoring are down slightly at this point from two years ago when college football set all-time records in half of the 14 offensive categories tracked by the NCAA. In the last two years, records have been posted in 10 of those 14 categories. While they're not defensive numbers Bo or Woody would be proud of, progress is progress. That means there is evidence that the dominant offense of the day, the spread, may have peaked statistically.

As with any offense, defenses catch up to them. Monte Kiffin has had a big impact on how teams defense the spread and that thought is evolving every day as defenses are halting the spread offense.
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Monte Kiffin has brought his defensive expertise to Tennessee to the point that the 69-year-old could be a favorite to win this year's Frank Broyles Award as assistant coach of the year. Tennessee's defense has not allowed a touchdown in the last eight quarters.

Monte Kiffin deserves this award more than any other assistant coach in the game. If anyone else where to receive this award, it would prove the award to be a sham like the Heisman.


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Monte will probably make it into the NFL Hall of Fame. He should win this award too. If you remember some preseason rag ranked him as 6th best defensive coordinator in college football.
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This is the same publication that ranked him 6th Hermitage? Good to know. They sure fucked that one up.
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Oct 29 2009, 06:52 AM
National notes: Defenses finally cooling offenses' heels

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Passing, rushing, total offense and scoring are down slightly at this point from two years ago when college football set all-time records in half of the 14 offensive categories tracked by the NCAA. In the last two years, records have been posted in 10 of those 14 categories. While they're not defensive numbers Bo or Woody would be proud of, progress is progress. That means there is evidence that the dominant offense of the day, the spread, may have peaked statistically.

As with any offense, defenses catch up to them. Monte Kiffin has had a big impact on how teams defense the spread and that thought is evolving every day as defenses are halting the spread offense.
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Monte Kiffin has brought his defensive expertise to Tennessee to the point that the 69-year-old could be a favorite to win this year's Frank Broyles Award as assistant coach of the year. Tennessee's defense has not allowed a touchdown in the last eight quarters.

Monte Kiffin deserves this award more than any other assistant coach in the game. If anyone else where to receive this award, it would prove the award to be a sham like the Heisman.


I will be contrarian to some degree here. My point is Defenses (and good DC's) almost always adapt to the current in vogue offense which then forces the offenses to again adapt. The Wishbone/Veer offense was virtually impossible to stop and continued this way for several teams like Air Force and Nebraska into the late 1990's. Now about the only team running this among the major teams is Georgia Tech. Tech is now around #10 in the nation and no one is stopping their offense. The problem with this Option Type offense Tech runs is that you must have 3 things:

1) An exceptional athlete at QB who is good at decision making. This QB must not have NFL aspirations as a NFL QB also.

2) QB must stay healthy

3) Must live with the defense being saddled with turnovers on errant pitches from the QB to TB's.

But solve or live with those 3 things and you can do well. Same with the Spread/Wildcat package. As I said above, if you can average 4 yards a carry with an occasional busted defense for a long run OR a throw over the top of a 9 man line THEN you can have UF, Utah, WVU, etc type seasons of late. The Spead/Wildcat offense is FAR FAR FAR less risky than the Triple Option offense of GA Tech.

Now having said that, IMO the Spread Offense is about as BORING an offense as one could observe from a fans standpoint. If you get too enamored with it then you lose your passing game unless you have a Superman like a Tebow at QB. So if you ever get behind in the 4th quarter it is similar to the Triple Option in that it makes you one dimensional and limited on what you can do to catch up as all ball control offenses do.
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