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By Sarah Larimer atThis clip comes via Dan Steinberg at the Washington Post, whose blog is rad.
I'LL SEE YOU BROS ON THE FIELD, OK?
This clip comes via Dan Steinberg at the Washington Post, whose blog is rad.
I'LL SEE YOU BROS ON THE FIELD, OK?
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Monday
When you watch Army and Navy play, you know there's going to be option football — and tons of it.
Not the diluted "read offense" the Denver Broncos are now running that the commentariat insist on calling an "option offense,” or even the far more coherent (but still different) spread-and-read-to-run offenses of teams like Oregon. No, Army and Navy — along with Air Force and Georgia Tech — run the real deal. Specifically, those teams use the "flexbone" offense, which actually grew out of the pass-first run and shoot, but evolved into the premiere run-first offense in the country. Indeed, those four teams — the three service academies and Georgia Tech, which is led by former Navy coach Paul Johnson — were the top four rushing teams in college football.
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports over the weekend.
As Chuck Klosterman explained Thursday on Grantland, NFL coaches have left much of the extreme offensive innovation to their college counterparts in recent years. Disparate talent levels and resources have encouraged creativity in college football, and defensive ends that don’t look like this have allowed those innovations to be successful.
With the college football season fast approaching its conference-season stride, here are a few of the other notable offensive philosophies dotting the landscape.
