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Tennessee Game Week

I see that the SEC is clearly the best conference, but that doesnt make the ACC weak. The SEC has geographical and cultural advantages above all others. My contention is the ACC is on par with the Big Ten. If FSU and the U ever get it together then the ACC is better. None of this matters on Saturday and I see a close game coming. Pitt must stop the run and UT must not turn the ball over. If Pitt gets a couple turnovers they will win. If Tenn rushes for 100 or more including QB scrambles then they win.
 
The whole point of the offense is to take advantage of the times when defense doesn't line up correctly because of the pace. It's built as an equalizer when playing better teams.

Not really. That’s an element of the offense.

But the whole point of the veer and shoot is to create huge amounts of spacing, and make the defense make a choice about which space it wants to cover, and then attack the other space.

That’s what makes it so difficult to defend, and why Briles and his offshoots just light up college football.
 
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Not really. That’s an element of the offense.

But the whole point of the veer and shoot is to create huge amounts of spacing, and make the defense make a choice about which space it wants to cover, and then attack the other space.

That’s what makes it so difficult to defend, and why Briles and his offshoots just light up college football.

You can spread out a defense without running a play every 12 seconds. The intent of speeding everything up is to catch you in misaligned defenses - whether it's how they line up or by who is on the field.
 
You can spread out a defense without running a play every 12 seconds. The intent of speeding everything up is to catch you in misaligned defenses - whether it's how they line up or by who is on the field.

That’s fine. But the veer and shoot is not predicated on tempo. You could run the Briles system with no tempo.

The veer and shoot is about running incredibly wide WR splits. The widest in all of college football. And forcing the defense to make a decision.

The WR routes are also organic, meaning they are designed to change mid-route, to make have the WR run to space in response to what the DB is doing.

Tempo helps gives an additional advantage. But that’s not the point of the offense.

Rhett Lashlee’s system he was running at Miami is more of a true “use tempo non-stop to create plays” predicated offense.
 
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That’s fine. But the veer and shoot is not predicated on tempo. You could run the Briles system with no tempo.

The veer and shoot is about running incredibly wide WR splits. The widest in all of college football. And forcing the defense to make a decision.

The WR routes are also organic, meaning they are designed to change mid-route, to make have the WR run to space in response to what the DB is doing.

Tempo helps gives an additional advantage. But that’s not the point of the offense.

Rhett Lashlee’s system he was running at Miami is more of a true “use tempo non-stop to create plays” predicated offense.
I agree. Syracuse runs a similar system in terms of both the tempo side and the wide splits and choice routes. Ultimately Pitt just has better players than Syracuse so it's fine. Do we have better players than this version of Tennessee in space? Will find out soon.
 
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