re: Tennessee shows you need a creative offensive coach in modern CFB

No the qb never takes a step backward to meet the back out of the pistol he pivots as the back comes down hill. I think you maybe confused what the pistol is because the offset gun and the pistol is two different things. In the pistol the back is right behind the qb like an I or single back set. And I agree the defense can’t predict the direction from the I but that’s not what I said I said the defense can predict what side it’s going when your in the gun more. Now that’s not really true with our offense because of the zone read anyway but for teams that don’t have a mobile qb but still primarily run their offense out of the gun, the pistol helps them not let the defense know the direction of the run. You see if you don’t ever go under center and you want to run some plays that work well from the I you can do so out of the pistol go look at what Oklahoma did alot under Lincoln Riley or okie state does with gundy. They both run a lot of pistol with an Hback offset the qb which equates to a fullback and can run plays like old school power that you’d run out of the I. If your just asking why we don’t run bobby petrinos offense I can’t help you there