I wasn't sure where this should go but it doesn't deserve its own threads. These are comments from Kirby Smart about Shot gun versus under center in short yardage. UGA should be as good as anyone if they wanted to run power from under center.
BTW this is from The Athletic; I recommend that site (paying for it) if you like college football. A ton of good content. They also have NFL and Atl United and Braves content.
The decision to go shotgun on short yardage, which Georgia often does, and other teams do, and it makes people crazy, especially when it doesn’t work. (And it didn’t when Georgia tried it at Tennessee.) Is the thinking that when you’re in shotgun the quarterback is actually closer to the tailback, so the handoff happens quicker?
“Not necessarily,” Smart said when I asked him that. “A lot of it has to do with tempo.”
Then Smart pointed out that Georgia went under center at Vanderbilt, with Eli Wolf at fullback. (That play worked. But other plays under center haven’t worked.)
“So it works both ways. There’s a lot of trains of thought on that,” Smart said, adding that as a defensive coach, when the offense goes under center it “eliminates a lot of (potential) plays” and the defense can be “a little more aggressive and they don’t have to defend as much area.”