Brandon McRae's take on Mullen's offense:

JacksonDevilDog

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Now as Mullen's first camp goes into the final week McRae is all the more convinced State has the right gameplan. And if the wideout is restricted from full-contact a bit longer it hasn't kept him from lots of study and observation and any sort of preparation possible.

"Oh, I already know the plays now," he says. "When they told me to learn one position I just go ahead and learn them all. It's not that hard compared to the west coast. And once I see a play I've just got it in my head so it's pretty easy. I like 'X' which is the wideout on the ball. He mainly gets the one-on-one coverages and stuff so that's what I want. But I like the slot, too, going against the safeties and linebackers. Anything just to help my team out, shoot, I wouldn't mind if they lined me up at quarterback!"

Croom was in year 5 and was running **** that was too complicated. Unreal. Just shows you how much of a joke the last 5 years was.
 

weblow

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I feel that I need to go purchase some Nair.

 

RebelBruiser

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That's the problem with bringing in a pro coach that doesn't understand that you can't run the same stuff at college. Look at the success Bill Callahan had at Nebraska. If you try to throw a wide array of your pro playbook at college kids who have limited practice hours and limited time for film study and playbook study, it isn't going to work. You really have to dumb down the offenses and defenses and make sure you only add things your players understand.

I know that Croom didn't exactly do a great job recruiting athletes at the skill positions or even O-linemen, but his main problem offensively was definitely his philosophy.
 

War Machine Dawg

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The offense freaking scored like crazy under Callahan. It was the D letting them down. I can remember seeing scores on several different occasions where they had score 42+ and lost. Hell, they lost one game like 70-63 or something retarded like that. Callahan's offense wasn't the problem at Nebraska.