re: Bo puttin in that Hard Work

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Uhm, do you know who you're responding to

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Who are you?

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LOL. Man this board is great.

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Bailout Bo has had TWO years to prove he belongs but here we are entering year 3 with a lot of question marks at the QB position. Gus Bus taint lingers!

I sometimes wonder if you drink more than me. Its a question I ask frequently when you post.

I cant make up my mind if its that, You are very young or one of the best trollers on this site.

I will buy you a drink one day, if you are old enough, we we will talk it out.

Lol weird thing to say

LINK

Nothing new here, but I watched this today and ... Wow. Really good analysis of all the reasons our offense was a disaster last year. OL looked clueless at times, Bo tried too hard to make chicken salad, and WRs (SETH!) not knowing what to do on a given play. You can tell the frustration in his voice at how dysfunctional our scheme was.

Wow powerful video and analysis. I can’t express how much I got to despise Gus for his ineptitude yet arrogance. This video shows the horrible scheming, coaching, and lack of football IQ that was AU football under his regime. I was ecstatic when he was fired. I have loved everything Harsin has done and feel like for the first time in a long to me we have an actual div 1 level football coach and staff who know how to recruit, evaluate, scheme, coach and develop. I don’t want to hear about what a nice man Gus was; he really screwed us.

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Saddest thing about Gus is he was one of the best offensive coaches in college football for years.

Then he walks away from what made him successful a duel threat QB running the zone read to run a pro-style offensive which he was not very good at and didn’t understand.

If Gus is smart he goes back to his roots at UCF and runs the ball.

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You don't even understand Gus. I've analyzed and explained the misconception that you just repeated countless times: he was NOT some run-heavy QB-read guy who "went away from his offense". What you saw him try to do in recent years (and fail at) is what he was from the very beginning. The Cam Newton and Nick Marshall offenses were the actual aberrations, and in both of those two seasons (2010 and 2013) he didn't even go into the season with the "offensive plan" that ended up being what those seasons were famous for. He basically tripped his way into an unstoppable offense off the foundations left behind for him. That was never "his offense", hence why he couldn't replicate it.

He GOT INTO college football off the back of Mitch Mustain - a pro-style quarterback. He then went to Tulsa where for two seasons the QB did little to no running. When he came to Auburn, he had the opportunity to start a "dual threat" in Kodi Burns, but instead went with Chris Todd (an Air Raid guy) who won the job in a handful of practices. That 2009 Auburn offense of course featured no QB run plays or "zone-option". Gus wasn't even the guy that found or wanted Cam, I'm pretty sure it was Curtis Luper...and if you remember 2010, it took Gus several weeks before he even figured out that he could spam the read-option with Cam up and down the field. Once again, that was never his offense. You even saw this with Marshall - in his second season here we cut back significantly on the QB-read.

A lot of you seem to misunderstand Gus or attribute things to him that simply were never the case. The significant "part" of 2010 and 2013 was that he inherited offensive rosters that were tooled towards running the football (most notably inherited offensive lines) and he found pots of gold in two transfer QB's who could steer that ship on the ground. Through his OWN recruiting/coaching, it is obvious that he tripped his way to success with that "system" (which was never his "mantra") as evidenced by the fact that he could never replicate it. He couldn't even build the offensive lines REQUIRED to make the zone-read QB thing work. You can't "move away" from doing something that was never YOUR THING in the first place.

The one thing Gus deserves credit for is his innovation and exploitation of the substitution issues a HUNH caused. He was pretty good at game planning a few explosive plays for certain down/distances against specific personnel. Then running those personnel groupings out late in the play clock to gain an advantage and create an explosive play similar to a hockey line change. Even in 2009 and 2011 we saw Gus create explosive plays without Cam or Nick. IMO it was the one thing Gus figured out about the HUNH that people had never really fleshed out to its full potential. Saban deserves credit for lobbying against it and swinging some of the advantage back to the D with the substitution rule.

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That may be the best analysis of Gustav that I’ve ever read

In fairness to him, the 2017 offense with Stidham/KJ was pretty much “his”. And except for his traditional “Four Game Gus” tendency at the beginning if the year, it was pretty damned effective until KJ got hurt late in the IB.