Yeah, but I think people tend to rig that argument.
I think the differences in offenses nowadays are largely grossly overstated. Almost everyone is trying to do the same things.
This is not 15 years ago whenever Rich Rodriguez and Chip Kelly were blowing through everyone with their offenses while other teams were still trying to pretend it was 1986. You are not seeing many 250 pound linebackers trying to cover slot receivers anymore.
Why do you think the shine has come off the stars of those guys? Because everyone else has adjusted and adapted.
Mike Leach is legitimately different than most others. He really is a guy who believes that you can throw your way to a championship. However, he’s never actually done that. Pat Narduzzi has more divisional championships than Mike Leach.
Now, in fairness, as many have pointed out, Leach has had to toil in college football backwaters like Lubbock, the Paloose and now Starkville. However, ask yourself this: if Leach was such an amazing coach, wouldn’t one of the big boys have taken a shot of him by now?
Are you really telling me that they don’t want to win in Ann Arbor or Tallahassee or Gainesville or Austin? Why is he always forced to take the worst job in every major conference?
He has wanted that Miami job forever and has been very open about it. And yet, they’ve never even sniffed him. Don’t you ever wonder why?
As for LSU, they did actually win something but their offense isn’t that different than Alabama’s or Clemson’s or many other teams’ offenses.
The difference was that last year they finally had a really accurate quarterback to make the plays that were there. That’s why Burrow went first overall. He may have been slated to go in the seventh round the year before. However, had that happened, he probably would’ve just ended up being like Tom Brady because he is extremely poised and extremely accurate. Those traits translate to any system.
So, no, I’m not exactly quaking in my boots because the Miami Hurricanes hired Rhett Lashlee as their OC. He may well do a great job there, who knows?
However, people have been prematurely handing Miami the keys to the Coastal for decades now and it has never really worked out like that. Speaking only for myself, I’m going to need to see some receipts this time.
