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New Playbook
The Hawkeye defense is more than capable of shutting down Terrelle Pryor and the Buckeye offense. What we need to win this game is a little more offensive firepower. I understand that Ken O'Keefe doesn't like change, but we live together and if I can convince him that the Smurfs live inside his...
Corn Flakes Is Glad We’re Over That Coach Firing Searching Booing Stuff (For Now Anyway)
Big news of the day, Tommy Bowden is NOT fired at Clemson, but chose to "step down" instead. You can guess how this meeting went. Bowden walks into a meeting with his athletic director Terry Don Phillips, offensive coordinator Rob Spence, and receivers coach Dabo Swinney. Bowden is given a gun...
Scouting 101: The Single Wing in the NFL
The Miami Dolphins and Carolina Panthers have shaken up the NFL this season by installing Wildcat formations. This formation is based on the single wing, popular at the college level before World War II. How can this ancient offense revive the NFL? The legitimacy of the single wing is up for debate...
The Spread Offense - Theory and Recent History
With all of the different formations and variations in offense happening in today’s college game, it’s hard to get a grasp on what makes one version of the spread better or different than another. Heck, given that the term “spread” gets applied to everything that is or...
Back to Old School V: What Doesn't Kill You
This is the final segment of the series on the Single Wing and the UT offense. You may read parts One, Two, Three, and Four in their respective links if you wish. To recap the series, we've noted that Clawson used the Single Wing quite effectively in the Spring Scrimmage. From those two data...
Back to Old School IV: Hadn't Seen That Before
This is the fourth part on the Single Wing series. You can read Parts One, Two and Three in the respective links. The fifth and final part will be posted tomorrow. In the previous posts, I've shown that Clawson experimented with Single Wing formations in the spring practices. To pick up...
Back to Old School III: Lights, Camera, ...
The third part of the Single Wing series. Parts one and two may be read here and here, respectively. In this section, I'll draw up a few of the traditional Single Wing plays. This is by no means comprehensive, but it should show how the plays are designed and how flexible the formation truly...
Back to Old School II: I Like to Move It, Move It
This is the second part in the series on the UT offense and the Single Wing. The first part may be read here. In the previous post in this series, I noted that Clawson experimented with the Single Wing formation in the Spring scrimmage game. Most of the previous post was spent explaining...
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