What a concept - This is from a Chris Peterson interview - maybe Crooms should read this...
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;">SB: You were the offensive coordinator at Boise State before you became the head coach.<span style=""> </span> On average, how big is your playbook each week entering a game?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;">CP: I'll tell you this - we do a lot of different things, and our playbook when we start the season and in spring football is fairly extensive.<span style=""> </span> But one of the things that we kind of pride ourselves on going into a game is not having a big playbook.<span style=""> </span> We do a good job of game planning and narrowing things down and not having too much overage so these kids have to learn so many things that we're not even going to call in the game.<span style=""> </span> And so I know a lot of people kind of pride themselves on having this humongous playbook, having all these plays going into a game.<span style=""> </span> We don't - we narrow it down so these kids can manage it and learn it and execute it.
Well....Croom i'm sure demands that our 18/21 year old players learn 2 inches worth of plays that could be called at any time...Yea, i'm sure they simplify it a bit, but it's amazing to me how many coaches out there (Leach) run no more than about 20 plays a game, yet b/c of their formations and using motion, they run those same plays in so many different ways.
It's college football - it shouldn't be this hard to have a solid offense - hell, it doesn't have to be great, just solid and i'd be fine with that...ugh
Here's the interview link:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;">SB: You were the offensive coordinator at Boise State before you became the head coach.<span style=""> </span> On average, how big is your playbook each week entering a game?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;">CP: I'll tell you this - we do a lot of different things, and our playbook when we start the season and in spring football is fairly extensive.<span style=""> </span> But one of the things that we kind of pride ourselves on going into a game is not having a big playbook.<span style=""> </span> We do a good job of game planning and narrowing things down and not having too much overage so these kids have to learn so many things that we're not even going to call in the game.<span style=""> </span> And so I know a lot of people kind of pride themselves on having this humongous playbook, having all these plays going into a game.<span style=""> </span> We don't - we narrow it down so these kids can manage it and learn it and execute it.
Well....Croom i'm sure demands that our 18/21 year old players learn 2 inches worth of plays that could be called at any time...Yea, i'm sure they simplify it a bit, but it's amazing to me how many coaches out there (Leach) run no more than about 20 plays a game, yet b/c of their formations and using motion, they run those same plays in so many different ways.
It's college football - it shouldn't be this hard to have a solid offense - hell, it doesn't have to be great, just solid and i'd be fine with that...ugh
Here's the interview link:
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