Gator Fever;n198279 said:
That scares me some because it will probably be a couple of years before we have the linemen/personnel to have a lot of success playing the type of offense Bama did when McElwain was there. I guess we have to hope the QB position under Muschamp was by far the biggest issue and not the other positions.
It shouldn't. We have more prostyle athletes than spread.
About 90 teams run "The Spread"*** in college. About 85 suck at it. It is far from some panacea. In 2005, when we had 4 and 5 star athletes 2 or 3 deep at ever position, we sucked at it then too. We don't have the little speedy smurf to run it and even when you have lil speedy smurfs, most of them aren't Percy Harvin.
When I think of McElwain, I think of Michigan State under John L Smith (5 or 6 years I think) then Fresno for a year and then a short time under the South Pole Elf Saban (3 years). When I think of Nussmeier, I think of disasters so I don't want to think of him at all.
Some of you think it's going to be the Meyer years all over again. It's clear that isn't true. His agent kept talking about Mac being the new Spurrier. I've never seen that out of him. Frankly, I don't think we know what we are going to get.
*** that term and the belief that there are two offenses gives me seizures but we'll stick with it for now.