Comments on: Our Running Game

By: Scipio Tex

Scipio Tex — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:34:23 +0000

Hi, indeed.

It makes me laugh. This is out there for anyone with an IQ north of 90, but I still have to wade through the same dumbshit comments every week.

By: sizzlechest

sizzlechest — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:29:56 +0000

Hi!

By: Barking Carnival — Blog — Post-Mortem: Texas Longhorns @ Wyoming Cowboys

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:19:12 +0000

[...] running back personality cults. Mack Brown has trained you well: always looking for another player to solve the underlying problem. First, you’re infatuated with Fozzy. Then it’s Cody Johnson. Then it’s Vondrell. [...]

By: ecurbmanchild

ecurbmanchild — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:39:13 +0000

Damn out shitty team and coaches. They suck and all we really want to do is average around 40 a game. I think we should fire the bastards!

By: jinx

jinx — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:20:16 +0000

Just curious if you guys have any insider info that might lead to a follow up on this. Of course the rumors are that The Major wants to do some things to the running game and GD himself said that Colt would be under center more….

Just curious. I know there isn’t much to go on until spring practice starts.

By: Gate_of_Horn

Gate_of_Horn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:21:52 +0000

Does anyone have thoughts about the “Wildcat, wildhog, wildrebel, wild______” formation and it’s place in the running games of college football?

Is that a scheme that would allow us to more effectively resolve problems related to 1. Scheme, 3. Variation, and 4. Personnel?

As you noted, Greg Davis is not a talented innovator of offensive theory, which was more or less proven by his Q-formation experiment this year. Rather, as you more directly stated, he is a fairly studious mimic of people that are like that, “We grabbed it from the Broncos because Davis saw it as a quick cure-all to the running game”

So as long as we’re better at plagiarizing a running game instead of inventing one, why or why not adopt the WildX style when we have Chiles, a mixed but experienced o-line, a stable of backs, and some very elusive speed merchants like Hales coming up in the roster?

By: abraxex

abraxex — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:25:08 +0000

Many people have touched on this but to put it in my own words, an offense should have some base plays it wants to establish. Run them unless and until the defense finds a way to stop them. Here’s the key: the offense should anticipate what the defense will (or hopefully must) do to stop the base series, and design another set of plays that will take advantage of whatever the D does to neutralize the base plays. For inspiration, think of the old wing-T belly series. My gripe with Texas’ offensive scheme under Mack B. and Greg D. is that it often seems to lack coherence – the running game just seems to be a grab-bag not particularly designed to take advantage of how the defense will react to our bread-and-butter plays.

By: chitown horn

chitown horn — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:06:37 +0000

Best analysis I have ever read about the recent Longhorn run offense. Kuddos to you.

By: Texas versus Texas A&M Thoughts & Pictures | BrianCombs.net

Texas versus Texas A&M Thoughts & Pictures | BrianCombs.net — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:20:29 +0000

[...] than Colt McCoy, our running game is horrible. Scipio of Barking Carnival had a fantastic analysis of the Texas running game a couple of weeks ago. It’s a must [...]

By: chuck

chuck — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:31:00 +0000

a good read.

Not sure if it was mentioned but with limited practice time and the clear success of the passing game, I’m curious how much the time wasted on teh Q package potentially impacted spending more time on the running game.

Of course I also wonder how much different our running game looks with a healthy Fozzy all year.