tigerswood
Well-known member
How many more plays, on average, did WF run than those teams?
I don't know why it's controversial to think we need to run more varied & quick hitting plays when we (rarely) play elite defenses. It's not an indictment of our scheme or coaching as a whole, which is excellent. And yeah, if you flip flop the recruiting prowess, I'm sure our scheme would do just fine, and probably dominate Clemson. But in the reality we live in, we need scheme to trump talent. Not easy to do, but if you watched last year's game (with 2 4th Q TDs scored down 25) and thought our scheme had Clemson on the ropes, then we can just agree to disagree.
The tOSU game you mentioned was one of the more satisfyingly non-Wake wins of my sports-watching career. OSU fundamentally changed their game plan with quick huddles to prevent Venables from stealing signs, included more power sweeps/outside runs against a defense that got upfield quickly, and threw the ball downfield to pick on elite WR/DB matchups. Total master-class by Day and Fields.
I don't know why it's controversial to think we need to run more varied & quick hitting plays when we (rarely) play elite defenses. It's not an indictment of our scheme or coaching as a whole, which is excellent. And yeah, if you flip flop the recruiting prowess, I'm sure our scheme would do just fine, and probably dominate Clemson. But in the reality we live in, we need scheme to trump talent. Not easy to do, but if you watched last year's game (with 2 4th Q TDs scored down 25) and thought our scheme had Clemson on the ropes, then we can just agree to disagree.
The tOSU game you mentioned was one of the more satisfyingly non-Wake wins of my sports-watching career. OSU fundamentally changed their game plan with quick huddles to prevent Venables from stealing signs, included more power sweeps/outside runs against a defense that got upfield quickly, and threw the ball downfield to pick on elite WR/DB matchups. Total master-class by Day and Fields.