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Originally Posted by Death Valley
Yea, you're right. He won't have to. Sure the standards are higher but he is drawing from a much larger "pool" so to speak.
I am an LSU fan and don't have an interest in your whole rivalry with UM.
However, I have enough sense to know that you as Ohio St. fans should be fairly worried about that game from now on. However you want to downplay this hiring, poke fun for them taking too long, laugh at his offense. I think the offense that he is going to run will give many teams in your division trouble. Think about his offense at WVU, it was a very good one. Just imagine him having better players to run it. WVU isn't exactly a top tier university, but Michigan is. It may take a while to get everything going, and you will probably beat them in the immediate future. But speaking for a few years later I think you are going to have a hell of a game on your hands. He is going to pull in some big name recruits and bring a whole new level of offense to your division. Imagine Illinois' offense x 10.  |
The reason that the spread-option offense is so difficult to defend is because you see it once every two years. When you have a week to teach your defensive linemen completely new assignments and train your defensive backs to play a style that is different from anything you have run all season, then you are often times in for some trouble. But the more you see the offense, the more familiar you become with it, the easier it becomes to stop because the assignments aren't all brand new. There is a thread on defending the spread option around here somewhere that touches very heavily on this point.
The other thing you are forgetting is that he had the best players in the Big East and still lost to other Big East teams. So he will go to the Big Ten, where he has the second best group of players, and improve his record against other Big Ten teams? It's not like RR suddenly gets better players but we are stuck with UC's roster. He get's better players, but so do his competition.
Besides his quarterback can't play like Juice or Leak every year against us. Statistically its impossible.