About CMS's offense...there have been a lot of things about it that have bothered me over the previous three years...but perhaps the most telling factor in his ability to call plays and develope an offense is the fact that the offense has not changed since day one.
Against USF, the first game of CMS's tenure, we ran the exact same offense we currently run, or at least the same plays, down after down that we currently run.
For anyone that has watched Alabama the previous three seasons...can you tell me Alabama's offensive tendencies?
Well, they have changed SLIGHTLY, but for the most part they are exactly the same.
In 2003 we had a tendency to come out on first down and run Shaud up the gut with a guard pulling, on second down, obviously it would depend on the success of the previous play, but we would often run playaction and dump it out to Castille in the flat for about a 6 yard gain.
Then we would playaction on first down from time to time and go deep. On second down when we missed the playaction we run it up the gut with Shaud for about a 3 yard gain, setting up 3rd and 7.
On 3rd and 7 we go to a shotgun, 4-wide reciever formation.
Does this sound familiar at all??
Which of these things has changed from 2003 to 2005, and how has the offense developed under CMS??
What I'm saying is...if some random fan can detect Alabama's tendencies offensively, then opposing coordinators in the SEC are going to diagnose and blow up our offense in SEC play.
Yeah...this is something that has happened quite a few times over the previous three seasons.
CMS averaged 13.8, 18.7, 19.6, and 16.9 points per game during his tenure at TB...
I just don't see what he has proven as an OC then and now. He can obviously flat-out coach...but I don't believe he has a good offensive mind, at all. And there is nothing that he has shown in his abilities to call a football game at Tampa Bay or at Alabama that would lead anyone to think otherwise.
He can stick around as Alabama's head coach though. He seems pretty good at that.
Against USF, the first game of CMS's tenure, we ran the exact same offense we currently run, or at least the same plays, down after down that we currently run.
For anyone that has watched Alabama the previous three seasons...can you tell me Alabama's offensive tendencies?
Well, they have changed SLIGHTLY, but for the most part they are exactly the same.
In 2003 we had a tendency to come out on first down and run Shaud up the gut with a guard pulling, on second down, obviously it would depend on the success of the previous play, but we would often run playaction and dump it out to Castille in the flat for about a 6 yard gain.
Then we would playaction on first down from time to time and go deep. On second down when we missed the playaction we run it up the gut with Shaud for about a 3 yard gain, setting up 3rd and 7.
On 3rd and 7 we go to a shotgun, 4-wide reciever formation.
Does this sound familiar at all??
Which of these things has changed from 2003 to 2005, and how has the offense developed under CMS??
What I'm saying is...if some random fan can detect Alabama's tendencies offensively, then opposing coordinators in the SEC are going to diagnose and blow up our offense in SEC play.
Yeah...this is something that has happened quite a few times over the previous three seasons.
CMS averaged 13.8, 18.7, 19.6, and 16.9 points per game during his tenure at TB...
I just don't see what he has proven as an OC then and now. He can obviously flat-out coach...but I don't believe he has a good offensive mind, at all. And there is nothing that he has shown in his abilities to call a football game at Tampa Bay or at Alabama that would lead anyone to think otherwise.
He can stick around as Alabama's head coach though. He seems pretty good at that.
