JTS
Jolly Good Fellow
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I have a couple of points that I don't think have been mentioned:
1. Nebraska won 3 National Championships and 7 BCS level conference championships in the 90's with an offense based on the option and were averaging 10 wins a seasons during the Solich-era which only ended in 2003. There is no need to ask if you can win with this kind of system at the BCS level because you already have an example of a program winning at a very high level with it in the not so distant past.
2. People say that we are going to be missing out on all of these NFL caliber recruits, but I disagree. RB and OL recruiting should be unaffected or even bolstered by PJ's system. There are tons of RB's and OL in the NFL that played in this style system in college. If you are a RB, you know that you are going to put up huge stats that will get you noticed and put you in the hunt for national awards. As far as QBs and WRs, I don't recall all of the big-time NFL quality players that we have ever gotten at those positions. Most of the significant players (excluding Calvin) we've had at QB or WR are guys that the big programs only wanted at other positions mainly defense. In summary, I don't think that PJ's system is going to effect our recruiting nearly as much as people think. In fact, I think that it will get us involved with some really outstanding atheletes that would not have considered us before.
3. PJ is going to adjust his system to give us the best chance to win. If we are averaging over 5.5 ypc as a team like Navy, you better believe that we going to run it 70%+ of the time, but I don't think anybody will care about the run to pass ratio if we are steamrolling over people on the ground. Realistically, I think we will probably end up running something similar to Fridge's offenses in the late 90's with Hamilton, only more option heavy. I also think that tying our recruiting pitch to the Hamilton era could be a fair comparison assuming this is what PJ is thinking and a great way to sell his system to recruits.
I think alot of people are crying about missing out on the next Peyton Manning or Calvin Johnson when the reality is that we historically do not get these kind of players frequently enough to build a program around them. Running a modified version of PJ's offense with a zone blitzing defense like Tenuta's should give us the best opportunity to year in and year out compete for championships and beat UGA.
1. Nebraska won 3 National Championships and 7 BCS level conference championships in the 90's with an offense based on the option and were averaging 10 wins a seasons during the Solich-era which only ended in 2003. There is no need to ask if you can win with this kind of system at the BCS level because you already have an example of a program winning at a very high level with it in the not so distant past.
2. People say that we are going to be missing out on all of these NFL caliber recruits, but I disagree. RB and OL recruiting should be unaffected or even bolstered by PJ's system. There are tons of RB's and OL in the NFL that played in this style system in college. If you are a RB, you know that you are going to put up huge stats that will get you noticed and put you in the hunt for national awards. As far as QBs and WRs, I don't recall all of the big-time NFL quality players that we have ever gotten at those positions. Most of the significant players (excluding Calvin) we've had at QB or WR are guys that the big programs only wanted at other positions mainly defense. In summary, I don't think that PJ's system is going to effect our recruiting nearly as much as people think. In fact, I think that it will get us involved with some really outstanding atheletes that would not have considered us before.
3. PJ is going to adjust his system to give us the best chance to win. If we are averaging over 5.5 ypc as a team like Navy, you better believe that we going to run it 70%+ of the time, but I don't think anybody will care about the run to pass ratio if we are steamrolling over people on the ground. Realistically, I think we will probably end up running something similar to Fridge's offenses in the late 90's with Hamilton, only more option heavy. I also think that tying our recruiting pitch to the Hamilton era could be a fair comparison assuming this is what PJ is thinking and a great way to sell his system to recruits.
I think alot of people are crying about missing out on the next Peyton Manning or Calvin Johnson when the reality is that we historically do not get these kind of players frequently enough to build a program around them. Running a modified version of PJ's offense with a zone blitzing defense like Tenuta's should give us the best opportunity to year in and year out compete for championships and beat UGA.
