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His description of Hatcher's offense and so on.....
From a poster on another board that played at VSU under both Hatcher and Muschamp, very informative and long but it gets me very excited:
Hatcher is far from being a nonenergetic dud. He is not as crazy and energetic as Muschamp during practices or the game, but who is? Muschamp does not act like that during the game as a show, he is doing even at 6:00 am conditioning practices. His station was always the toughest, he would not let you slack even a little bit. In saying that Hatcher is not scared to chew your ass either. From what I have seen out of Ritch, Hatcher is much more energetic than him. I had a post earlier that Hatcher's personality is half Ritch, half Spurrier. I say that because he has that class that Ritch comes off as having, while at the same time being more talkative, more enthusiast, and confident to the point of almost being cocky at times.
Hatcher will adapt his offense to fit his personnel when required. The offense requires a lot of the QB to make audibles, requires a lot of the Center position to make the offensive line calls for blitzes and such, and a lot out of the recievers to make reads in coverages while running routes. It also requires the quarterbacks and recievers to recognize blitzes to run hot routes. The quarterbacks in this offense don't necessarily need an NFL type arm, but they need to have a good release, good footwork, and be accurate. By me saying that, I want to clarify that it is not a dink and dunk offense. Usually on any given play there is a reciever running a deep route. A lot of times these routes are run just to take the safety deep so a crossing pattern will be open underneath. But the quarterbacks in this offense always look to make the big throw when it is open. The QB is always looking at the defense before the play to read the defense and change on of the receivers routes (ala Peyton Manning). The recievers in this offense are required to know when the coverage is zone vs. man. This changes the way they run their routes. If it is zone, the reciever will cut off his route to settle in the zone. If it is man the receiver must know that he cannot stop running. The QB's praticing throwing the ball of the side of the receiver that he wants the receiver to turn to, in order to get the most YAC (this is important on curl routes). He runs a lot of sets with three wide recievers, 1 running back, and a tight end. The QB can be under center or in the shotgun. The tight end will play in the slot often. He will also line up in the I-formation and run it. He does not have a million plays like Mike Martz. You can't do that in college because players do not have the amount of time to learn them. But he can run almost any play out of any formation at any time. By the time you run the play in the game you probably have already practiced that play over a hundred times in practice. Last time I watched Valdosta play he had added many things since I have been there and changed some things slightly to fit his personel. Now that he has learned how to run the option successfully in only one year, despite never running it before is kind of scary. He is also not scared to run a RB or WR screen, especially when teams start to blitz. I have seen nothing that he does that want work on the next level. His offense actually reminds me a little bit of what the Colts and the Patriots are doing. His offense is a little bit Mike Martz (aggressive), a little bit West Coast (passing to open up the run when needed), and a little bit Indy colts (QB making so many calls at the line, and the ability of the offense to take what the defense gives it). He has even coached a QB on his national championship team that was a scrambler, and installed plays for that.
I wish I could say more about Muschamp's philosophy's, but as you can tell I played on offense (reciever).
If you have any questions about them, fire away. I am not biased towards Hatcher because I played for him. My high school team went to a state championship my junior year, and was ranked number one in the state most of the season my senior year; and I don't care for my head coach at all. He actually held us back. Hatcher allowed us to fulfill our full potential.
One more thing about Hatcher.
Most people underestimate how much high school head coaches have to do with where there players go to college. Hatcher is great friends with many of the coaches across the state of Georgia and Florida. He is the only coach that I can think of that could get kids that normally would lean towards UGA to go to GT. He can relate to the coaches and players better than Ricth. He has great pride and confidence on the talent level and skill of football players in Georgia and north Florida. I guarantee based on personality and communication skills alone, that he will out sale Mark Ritch for a lot of recruits we are not used to getting. Recruiting is one of the big reasons why I think he would make a perfect fit at Georgia Tech.
If he came in and started averaging 30 points a game, and Tenuta's defense continued to lead the league in sacks and tackles for loss. Many of high school athletes would want to come play for a team that is that aggressive and that puts up those kind of numbers
From a poster on another board that played at VSU under both Hatcher and Muschamp, very informative and long but it gets me very excited:
Hatcher is far from being a nonenergetic dud. He is not as crazy and energetic as Muschamp during practices or the game, but who is? Muschamp does not act like that during the game as a show, he is doing even at 6:00 am conditioning practices. His station was always the toughest, he would not let you slack even a little bit. In saying that Hatcher is not scared to chew your ass either. From what I have seen out of Ritch, Hatcher is much more energetic than him. I had a post earlier that Hatcher's personality is half Ritch, half Spurrier. I say that because he has that class that Ritch comes off as having, while at the same time being more talkative, more enthusiast, and confident to the point of almost being cocky at times.
Hatcher will adapt his offense to fit his personnel when required. The offense requires a lot of the QB to make audibles, requires a lot of the Center position to make the offensive line calls for blitzes and such, and a lot out of the recievers to make reads in coverages while running routes. It also requires the quarterbacks and recievers to recognize blitzes to run hot routes. The quarterbacks in this offense don't necessarily need an NFL type arm, but they need to have a good release, good footwork, and be accurate. By me saying that, I want to clarify that it is not a dink and dunk offense. Usually on any given play there is a reciever running a deep route. A lot of times these routes are run just to take the safety deep so a crossing pattern will be open underneath. But the quarterbacks in this offense always look to make the big throw when it is open. The QB is always looking at the defense before the play to read the defense and change on of the receivers routes (ala Peyton Manning). The recievers in this offense are required to know when the coverage is zone vs. man. This changes the way they run their routes. If it is zone, the reciever will cut off his route to settle in the zone. If it is man the receiver must know that he cannot stop running. The QB's praticing throwing the ball of the side of the receiver that he wants the receiver to turn to, in order to get the most YAC (this is important on curl routes). He runs a lot of sets with three wide recievers, 1 running back, and a tight end. The QB can be under center or in the shotgun. The tight end will play in the slot often. He will also line up in the I-formation and run it. He does not have a million plays like Mike Martz. You can't do that in college because players do not have the amount of time to learn them. But he can run almost any play out of any formation at any time. By the time you run the play in the game you probably have already practiced that play over a hundred times in practice. Last time I watched Valdosta play he had added many things since I have been there and changed some things slightly to fit his personel. Now that he has learned how to run the option successfully in only one year, despite never running it before is kind of scary. He is also not scared to run a RB or WR screen, especially when teams start to blitz. I have seen nothing that he does that want work on the next level. His offense actually reminds me a little bit of what the Colts and the Patriots are doing. His offense is a little bit Mike Martz (aggressive), a little bit West Coast (passing to open up the run when needed), and a little bit Indy colts (QB making so many calls at the line, and the ability of the offense to take what the defense gives it). He has even coached a QB on his national championship team that was a scrambler, and installed plays for that.
I wish I could say more about Muschamp's philosophy's, but as you can tell I played on offense (reciever).
If you have any questions about them, fire away. I am not biased towards Hatcher because I played for him. My high school team went to a state championship my junior year, and was ranked number one in the state most of the season my senior year; and I don't care for my head coach at all. He actually held us back. Hatcher allowed us to fulfill our full potential.
One more thing about Hatcher.
Most people underestimate how much high school head coaches have to do with where there players go to college. Hatcher is great friends with many of the coaches across the state of Georgia and Florida. He is the only coach that I can think of that could get kids that normally would lean towards UGA to go to GT. He can relate to the coaches and players better than Ricth. He has great pride and confidence on the talent level and skill of football players in Georgia and north Florida. I guarantee based on personality and communication skills alone, that he will out sale Mark Ritch for a lot of recruits we are not used to getting. Recruiting is one of the big reasons why I think he would make a perfect fit at Georgia Tech.
If he came in and started averaging 30 points a game, and Tenuta's defense continued to lead the league in sacks and tackles for loss. Many of high school athletes would want to come play for a team that is that aggressive and that puts up those kind of numbers
