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Originally Posted by CoSpartan
For crying out loud, will you people stop saying stuff like that? How often do you think they go first on first? Rarely, very rarely......
This isn't high school. They have a 100 kids practicing. I am sure they can run some straight up offense at their first team defense now and then......  |
You are 100% correct. They can run a standard offense at their defense. With their backups! And then when the backups are not running "traditional" schemes at their defense, they have to learn how to block for the offense that they play in (in UMs case, the read option). Having two different blocking schemes to learn and use based on if you are scout team or thrown into game action leads to things being less instinctual and mistakes being made.
Go by history, the majority of read option teams struggle vs. a straight up power running attack.