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Flats Noob
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It's only Thrusday. I just got my tickets to the game....now I am ready for it to be Saturday.
Couple of things real quick:
Injuries:
Senior guard A.J. Smith has missed the last two days of practice due to illness and will not start Saturday, Johnson said. Redshirt freshman Joseph Gilbert, who started the first six games until Smith replaced him, will reclaim his starting spot.(AJC)
Al Groh (UVA HC) had this to say about PJ's offense:
Coach Paul Johnson often breaks down his offense into the basics: blocking the right guy, getting defenders on the ground, knowing when to pitch and when to keep. In other words, it’s not rocket science.
Al Groh might disagree.
The Viriginia coach took an odd tangent when asked this week about Johnson’s offense.
“That style of offense has got a long history,” Groh began. “Some years back it was the prevalent style of play, so it’s not as if something has been invented that never worked before.
“I was trying to think of a good analogy the other day, but space flight has come a long way since the first launchings, but it’s a lot more sophisticated and a lot more intricate and we can do things with those rockets and go to the moon now. Heck, all they were trying to do with the first one was do a couple of orbits. Now we’re sending people to the moon, but it’s still rocket flight.
“You know, this is still a wishbone-based offense. It’s just a more sophisticated, more souped-up version.” (AJC)
Any comments on this....I think Al Groh is pretty accurate, it is a wish-bone but way more advanced making it not really a carbon copy of past wish-bones.
Also, I am not sure there was much difference in A.J. Smith starting and Gilbert our O line still looked pretty bad. Do you think this will hurt us much?
Couple of things real quick:
Injuries:
Senior guard A.J. Smith has missed the last two days of practice due to illness and will not start Saturday, Johnson said. Redshirt freshman Joseph Gilbert, who started the first six games until Smith replaced him, will reclaim his starting spot.(AJC)
Al Groh (UVA HC) had this to say about PJ's offense:
Coach Paul Johnson often breaks down his offense into the basics: blocking the right guy, getting defenders on the ground, knowing when to pitch and when to keep. In other words, it’s not rocket science.
Al Groh might disagree.
The Viriginia coach took an odd tangent when asked this week about Johnson’s offense.
“That style of offense has got a long history,” Groh began. “Some years back it was the prevalent style of play, so it’s not as if something has been invented that never worked before.
“I was trying to think of a good analogy the other day, but space flight has come a long way since the first launchings, but it’s a lot more sophisticated and a lot more intricate and we can do things with those rockets and go to the moon now. Heck, all they were trying to do with the first one was do a couple of orbits. Now we’re sending people to the moon, but it’s still rocket flight.
“You know, this is still a wishbone-based offense. It’s just a more sophisticated, more souped-up version.” (AJC)
Any comments on this....I think Al Groh is pretty accurate, it is a wish-bone but way more advanced making it not really a carbon copy of past wish-bones.
Also, I am not sure there was much difference in A.J. Smith starting and Gilbert our O line still looked pretty bad. Do you think this will hurt us much?
