What happened to the "hurry up" offense?

[bdshull2001]

I just wondered if you think we are in a true fast mode? It doesn't look that fast to me. Maybe faster than the old' ground hogs' looking to the sideline.

Anybody remember when Stoops hired Lincoln to get him back to the roots of his early day offensive success? To me that meant going back to a Leach style offense and hiring one of his protégés. Well, I went to the WSU stats board and discovered their Q-B has thrown 275 passes for 73% compared to 163 for 66% for Baker for the same amount of games. I think the WSU q-b attempted 73 passes with 50 or so completed against Oregon and they won. Okay to my point...

Either we need to commit to the true hurry up, lots of passes before the defense sets or we need to use our true strengths and that's Shepard and Perine. You could also include Baker.

Well what you think? Play hurry up, split the linemen up to 2 yard gaps, use the slant in, shuffle pass or delayed handoff that made Q famous or continue on our current path?

BTW, Josh Huepel's offense had a great game scoring over 40 points this week against Fresno. The Utah State board loves him, just like the Clemson board loves Venables.............

 

[AztecWarrior]

If you're taking sacks the hurry up doesn't work you have to stay ahead of the chains.

 

[ETU]

I just wondered if you think we are in a true fast mode? It doesn't look that fast to me. Maybe faster than the old' ground hogs' looking to the sideline.

Anybody remember when Stoops hired Lincoln to get him back to the roots of his early day offensive success? To me that meant going back to a Leach style offense and hiring one of his protégés. Well, I went to the WSU stats board and discovered their Q-B has thrown 275 passes for 73% compared to 163 for 66% for Baker for the same amount of games. I think the WSU q-b attempted 73 passes with 50 or so completed against Oregon and they won. Okay to my point...

Either we need to commit to the true hurry up, lots of passes before the defense sets or we need to use our true strengths and that's Shepard and Perine. You could also include Baker.

Well what you think? Play hurry up, split the linemen up to 2 yard gaps, use the slant in, shuffle pass or delayed handoff that made Q famous or continue on our current path?

BTW, Josh Huepel's offense had a great game scoring over 40 points this week against Fresno. The Utah State board loves him, just like the Clemson board loves Venables.............

Utah State is 3-2 and will likely lose 3 more games, 2 at least. It's fans must be pretty easy to please...or don't hold the coaching staff responsible for wins and losses.

 

[JB4AU]

Was Riley hired to install the hurry-up offense or just back to a true spread/air raid?? I don't remember Leach being instrumental in a hurry-up style offense, that was more when Kevin Wilson was here. Did Leach run a very fast paced offense at TTech as well??

 

[Dinkis]

I guess there is no reason to run the hurry up without a good OL. Riley is on the sidelines, I would have thought he would be up in the box for a hurry up. I might be totally wrong about that.

 

[ETU]

I guess there is no reason to run the hurry up without a good OL. Riley is on the sidelines, I would have thought he would be up in the box for a hurry up. I might be totally wrong about that.

The hurry up requires everyone to be in great shape, know their assignments, think quickly and be able to adjust. This year's OL may not be up to ALL the necessities, but mostly the younger guys. I wonder why a school like OU has gotten itself in such spot needing to rely on freshman and not up to expectations seniors. OL development just seems lacking this year. Years ago, we had a lot OL that left the program, so I could understand when the pickins got a little slim. But I don't recall that being a problem lately.