"I think we have to get faster," Sherman said. "I don't think we're fast enough, particularly on defense."
Yes indeed my friends, Sherman got it right during his first press conference since beginning his full time job as head coach at Texas A&M. After seeing a second straight BCS title game dominated by an incredible fast SEC team, there should be no doubt in any college football fans minds that to win big these days you have to play fast, wide open, athletic football. Gone are the glory days of "three yards and a cloud of dust." We have already ushered in a new are of college football and its time for A&M to adapt. This isn't Sherman's first rodeo, he knows that if he wants to come in and compete with Mack, Stoops, and hell even Leach, then he is going to have to not only out coach the guys, his players will have to out quick the others too.
In 1968 former Texas A&M head coach Emory Bellard invented the vaunted wishbone offense (Unfortunately at the time of the invention Bellard was coaching for DKR and those boys down in Austin). Well you see for those you who aren't old enough to remember, the sips took that offense and revolutionized college football. So if you really love the game at this level then sit back and enjoy the ride because after Urban Myer led his Utah team to an undefeated season we got ourselves a little bit of offensive revolution right here in the 21st century. The style of spread 'em out offenses wasn't invented by Urban, but he sure did make it popular. We know that drunk pirate in Lubbock had been running a similar style for awhile and of course everybody had a love/hate relationship with the Ol' Ball Coach's "Fun and Gun" down in the Swamps of Florida, but the thing is after Myer ran it everyone and there dog started implementing some form of spread into their game plan. Coach Dodge up at Southlake built himself a dynasty running it on the high school level, Missouri went for it on 4th and goal against the Sooners in this years Big 12 Championship..and no my friends they did not line up in a goaline formation they spread them out five wide and threw for it, and then there was our favorite story of the year...App State pulled of the greatest upset in recent history over Michigan because they were able to spread them out and run around or between them. Which brings us to me to my final point. The Big 10 no longer dominates football like they once did. Many critics consider them to be the weakest of the BCS conferences. Not because they only sport a handful of teams that spread it out, but because they lack the speed of other teams to defend it when they play legit out of conference games. Now you may be thinking "We may not even run a spread option" and we very well may not...but I do know this, if you want to hear the students chanting "Wrecking Crew!" any time soon at Kyle, you better hope that General Sherman is able to recruit speed....cause we sure as hell are going to need it if we want to stop anybody.
Tower, this is Ghost rider requesting a flyby.
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