does anybody know, or has anyone analyzed, whether we broke any of the tendencies that Gary Patterson basically bragged about exploiting in the Peach bowl?
Back when I played caveman ball in the 80s my school ran the split back veer. We basically lined up right handed or left handed and all the calls were basically odd or even. And mostly out of the same formation. Formations basically gave you no clue about run/pass. (But we ran it 80% of the time)
Nowadays with multiple formations it seems you would have to be careful about "balancing" run/pass right/left out of each formation. It seems that it would be hard to "get back" to each formation to balance depending on what the current down/distance/opponent called for. I think this is what Patterson exploited.
Back when I played caveman ball in the 80s my school ran the split back veer. We basically lined up right handed or left handed and all the calls were basically odd or even. And mostly out of the same formation. Formations basically gave you no clue about run/pass. (But we ran it 80% of the time)
Nowadays with multiple formations it seems you would have to be careful about "balancing" run/pass right/left out of each formation. It seems that it would be hard to "get back" to each formation to balance depending on what the current down/distance/opponent called for. I think this is what Patterson exploited.
