The Lions' Pride

I'm fine with this to me you can stack the box I still find it gimmicky although it is effective occasionaly

Why. We have enough to worry about in running our base offense than to try and learn a gimmick offense.

That's OK. We've got some good weapons, but that's not the only way to use them. Our previous offense had no concept of how to get them the ball except directly snapping it to them.

Also, look at some of the best offenses in the NFL - it's not necessarily that they do all sorts of things. Peyton Manning ran the same plays over and over, but the Colts ran them so freaking well that nobody could stop them. While none of our QB's are in the same galaxy as Manning, the principles are similar. BOB is going to teach our QB's to read a defense, and we shouldn't need those gimmicky type of plays to move the ball. JMO.

Eh. The wildcat is a gimmick offense used most often by teams that struggle w/conventional offense. We needed the wildcat last season to generate a spark. It worked to some extent, but hopefully we will not need to rely on something like it to move the ball.

I guess you could call the wildcat gimmicky but IMO it shouldn't take that much time or effort to keep in the play book. Just get personnel straight and it's basically just 2 or 3 different QB runs. IMO it can have a place in a successful college offense.

For sure. That's definetly more important. Lol

What would make ME think we can do things differently is irrelevant firstly. It is whether the Coaches think we can that matters.

And who says we dont have the horses? I am one who feels the horses are better than some(again irrelevant), however, one of my favorite parts of college football is even if 85 guys return from X year to Y year, it is a different team. That age range allows for a large range of development in all directions. So going off of what was seen last year is a factor, but not the only one.

And it is a new staff, with offensive upgrades all over. (call it my opinion there if ya like)

I feel we dont need the gimmicky stuff. I expect a more effective offense this season in a few areas.

That's exactly what Borges did to DRob. He even talked this offseason about letting him run more, because they bottled him up too much last season.

And I disagree about "not having the horses". Lots of talent on this offense. Just comes down to what BOB and Fisher can get out of McGloin.

Compare what Borges ran at San Diego State to what Michigan ran last year. It was far closer to a RichRod spread than a Borges power running attack.

I think there is a lot of talent on the line and at running back and enough at receiver. Unfortunately, at the most important position in sports there is MAC level talent. If Danny O'Brien were here, I'd say full steam ahead with a balanced pro style attack. But he's not and we'd better be able to deal with the reality of what we have.

We don't beat O$U last year without the wildcat. It's stupid to cut it out completely.

Umm, Matt McGloin is our starting QB. We need all the gimmicks our offense can handle to overcome his lack of talent. It needed to be used more last year. It was a horrible coaching decision to not use it last year until Scrap allowed it.

(not well versed here..... up front).... but:
I don't see a huge difference between running the "wildcat" vs. the option offense that ran ad nausea with Tebow... Pat White... our "Spread HD" w/ M Rob.... take out a QB, throw in 2 RB's?.... put talented people on the field and call plays that move the chains.

call it a gimmick all ya want.... a first down = a first down.

I doubt he's that solid on refusing to run it. I wouldn't be honest whatsoever at this point in time if I were BO'B.