Pretty sure most schools run RPO including the final 4. A ton of NFL teams do it too, the Eagles used it to beat the Pats in the super bowl. Not sure why everyone is so against it here. We just don’t execute like them.
So our new OC
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That doesn't make him wrong. Many/most of Levis' runs were short yardage. Call it wildcat, lion or horseshit, those should not be considered QB runs IMO. If that was Cain or any RB guys here would be slobbering all over it....
Don't get tangled up trying to rank the all time stupid posts here. No matter how old you are, you don't have enough time left.
The vast majority of the people here don't even know what it is. They think its zone read
There are some good points here. Listening to some PSU podcasts who brought in some insiders that cover UT and who watched him while he was with Ok St, said that he prefers the big 6’4, 6’5 pocket QB with the big arm who stands back there and slings it. His QB’s will make some plays with their legs when the pocket breaks down but they are certainly not a “running” threat.
Like Franklin though it was said that Yurcich loves to throw deep and create “explosive plays” which Franklin loves.
But the new OC’s system seems to be almost the opposite of what Franklin has run going back to his time at Vanderbilt.
So what gives here? Will Franklin be almost completely hands off and let Yurcich do his own thing? And will we now be recruiting a different type of QB?
I love the hire as I have read and heard for a few years now that he’s one of the brightest young minds in the game, and I love that Franklin had the stones to make a really tough decision and make a change after only one year because he all-in on being elite....but when you take a step back and analyze, I think there are some interesting questions.
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I’d prefer an offensive coordinator who ran the Everybody Go Long Offense (EGLO) so I could actually figure out what was going on during a game.
Once again RPO has nothing to do with the QB running the ball. RPO is run pass option and the person running the ball is the running back.
LOL. We ran a little bit of RPO with Hack towards the end. Some poster equate that with running the QB.
You are right. Life would be so much simpler if we lined up with 5 WRs and had each of them run the fly pattern just like in the back yard when we were kids.
You can find the quotes from Franklin saying he wants Hack to run more. Plus if you watch the games from 2014 you’ll see how this evolved, and once again I’ll share the data.
Rushing attempts by Hack in 2013 - 49
Rushing attempts by Hack in 2014 - 93
And yes as someone else pointed out sacks are part of those numbers but I don’t care enough to sort that all out as on a read option play if the qb gets taken down behind the LOS it’s both a rushing attempt and a sack.
You don’t like what I’m saying go ahead and put me on ignore - idgaf. But the reality is that Franklin took a square peg round hole approach with Hack - and through 4 offensive coordinators the qb running the ball has been a large part of his offense at Penn State.
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The square in off the blue Impala always worked back in the day.
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Excited at the prospect of a coach with some ties in Texas; that said, I am not sure how Franklin has his staff recruit - are there regional leads? Or does everyone recruit a certain position?
Yurcich article, seems to be a QB sensei
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Meet Mike Yurcich, Penn State's New Offensive Coordinator
Mike Yurcich brings what players and fellow coaches call a "quarterback friendly" system to Penn State. Learn more about the Lions' new OC.
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Yurcich article, seems to be a QB sensei
Meet Mike Yurcich, Penn State's New Offensive Coordinator
Mike Yurcich brings what players and fellow coaches call a "quarterback friendly" system to Penn State. Learn more about the Lions' new OC.
Good article in The Athletic; Mike Gundy put Yurcich on the map and said he could open things up for Penn State if CJF lets him.
Athletic quote. Seems like CJF called Gundy well before the KC hire inquiring about MY.
“I told him the time before when he called me about Yurcich, I told him that’s who he needed to hire and he didn’t do it,” Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said on Friday. “I haven’t gotten around to calling James and giving him a hard time yet because I said, ‘You just need to hire this guy. He’s from up there, he’ll be a really good coach.’ But anyway, I was just teasing him. We all gotta do what we gotta do.”
Yurcich was Gundy’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Oklahoma State from 2013-18. It was Gundy who made the surprising and unorthodox hire of Yurcich.
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This guy is pulling crap out of thin air.
Mike Yurcich details his vision for the Texas offense
The former Oklahoma State offensive coordinator will tweak the approach used by Tom Herman over the last two years, including more reliance on tempo and potentially less reliance on 11 personnel.www.google.com
Info from the new OC on his philosophy. In summary he wants to use tempo, and believes in formation and personnel variation to get his best play makers on the field. I shall warn everyone don’t expect to see the QB under center.
I watched the highlights of TX vs, OK St, Baylor and Colo. from what I saw and the novice I am. His offense at TX was pretty similar to ours. But I see more motion out of the WR's, I saw a few old style QB options (kind of like that) and Screen passes to the RB, ( I really like). It also looked like there were some really nice WR' routes and schemes.
The caveat of all this is how much was Herman and how much was Mike.
I don't remember seeing what I would call "Tempo" but they did seem to play faster than us or at least decide on a play and run it rather than making a lot of calls up until the snap.
To count as a sack, there needs to be an intent to pass. Designed runs for the QB don’t count as sacks, just TFLs.
They pay these coaches so much to make it complicated and screw it all up. We need a K.I.S.S. coach.
Not proof, but when Franklin hired him, he didn't want much change in offense, esp. with terminology, and was against a new offensive system being installed. KC said he would do that.
Franklin said that the offense they had planned changed with the loss of Brown and Cain. Whether he thought KC was too slow to adapt, who knows, but the offense changed later in the season. It is also strange that Franklin said after last season that the QBs needed to run less and then they ran more. A matter of circumstance or design, don't know, but KC seemed to call more QB runs than he did at MN.
Maybe Franklin wasn't all the happy with the QB development. Clifford still has mechanical issues and they weren't trusting Levis to throw. Franklin mentioned several times that Levis needed to throw more.
Franklin obviously had reasons for the change, so hope it works out and hope KC finds a landing spot. Maybe Harbaugh will hire him.
Bottom line is this was CJF's first choice for a couple of years now.....he got him. Good luck to him, hopefully he can elevate the offense and attract great talent.
something I always wondered. When you see stats for a defensive player that has both sacks and TFLs, are they independent? For instance, does a sack count as both a sack and TFL?
That’s funny I thought JoMo left to be head coach at MSU? I guess he would have said no thank you to that job and the millions more it paid him if Franklin would not have held him back. You can make arguments about Franklin and his coaching style without putting stuff out there that is flat out dumb.
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That is a good thing....until further notice, you're my default Midnighter!!!!
Franklin climbed to the top of his profession coming from the offensive side of the ball, but he has no clue offensively, really? Think before you post. And if you think he has no clue, why would you want him actively involved? Keep your criticisms straight, will you?
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Look at Ciarrocca with Seth Green as his wildcat QB in 2018. Levis played that role this season.
Seth Green
Was utilized as a wildcat quarterback and receiver
• rushed 76 times for 282 yards (had only one negative rush all season) and eight touchdowns
• completed 4-of-5 passes for 36 yards and two touchdowns and also threw for a successful 2-point conversion
• caught two passes for 37 yards
What dual threat, passing over someone’s head or passing into the ground? He certainly didn’t run the ball.
LOL. That reminded me of a conversation I just had with my buddy. He works for Comcast and was chuckling at how often old ladies will call in about their bill only to be told how many porn movies were rented at $5.99 each. I laughed at him and said "I don't care how old you are, there is more free porn available than there is time left in your life. Why would anyone pay for porn?"
I think that was the rub. Yes, we were putting Levis in multiple times a game down the stretch, but when the head coach has to tell you he needs to throw it more, that doesn’t speak much about the vision and adaptability of the OC.
Bingo! Franklin is big on analytics and mentions explosive plays in pretty much every single press conference. They rarely hit the metric % that he wanted this year. I will bet the house this was a major influence in his decision.
CJF had to move fast. Urbs assembling his staff for Jacksonville!!
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