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Originally Posted by KCinNY
The spread will get you 8-4 or 7-5 every year and that coveted berth in the Poulan Weed Eater Bowl.
Problem is that Pinkel is too stubborn to implement some conventional sets into his gimicky spread playbook.
When you see Mizzou lining up in a 5 wide shotgun on 4th and goal from inside the one...you have to know that it's insane.
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Would you prefer us take a bunch of 3 star athletes and line up in the pro-set against teams that are physically superior to us across the board?
Or would you like to go into the homes of skill position recruits in Texas and tell them "yeah, we do the same thing everyone else in the country does, but we do it in a program with 1/2 the financial backing of the major national powerhouses"?
Yeah, it'd be great to be able to line up 5 guys that weigh 325 lbs and run like gazelles. It'd be fantastic to just blow teams off the ball and impose our will on them.
But just exactly how do you go about doing that? This isn't Texas. It isn't Alabama and it isn't Oklahoma. Hell, it isn't even Nebraska. We're the University of Missouri. Until we're considered among the national elite, we have to do things differently than they do to win.
If that means a non-traditional offense, so be it. That offense attracts scores of athletes to the school that wouldn't have given us a second thought without it. That offense is why we will have no worse than a four-star quarterback for the duration of Pinkel's tenure. This offense allows us to take two-star WRs and make them some of the best TEs in the country.
Pinkel's offense is our best chance to win with the tools we have. I don't believe Yost runs it efficiently (Christensen did), but that's an execution issue more than a philosophical flaw.
Ask Texas Tech how much they enjoy that conventional offense that Tuberville brought with him. Tech has many of the same disadvantages we have. It's in a very similar situation to MU. When Leach was there, they used that offense to be greater than the sum of their parts. Now that Tuberville is there, they're an also-ran.
While I disagree with how Yost uses it - the spread offense is the right fit for this program at this time.