A lot of folks don't understand the concepts at all. I'm no X's and O's guru, but what ate Bama's lunch as much as anything was tempo, not scheme. You can run a hurry up, no huddle attack using a Pro-style, West Coast offense--A&M did for the preceding four years under Mike Sherman. Heck, we might even have run the offense faster under Sherman than we have so far under Sumlin. So, whehter you're using a West Coast offense and power blocking schemes, or a spread attack with more zone blocking schemes, the pace really takes away Saban's personnel advantage, and is a great equalizer.

A&M is running Mike Leach and Hal Mumme's old Air Raid, only, as someone else pointed out, they're doing it with future NFL guys on the OL, and with a QB who is a rushing threat, a combination I don't think you've ever seen with this offense. Kingsbury really just started figuring out how to use all the weapons properly with the Auburn game. It's not a sophisticated offense--they don't even have a playbook. They just depend on out executing the other team, and outlasting them. If Sumlin can recruit NFL prospects on the oline and defense (and I see no reason why he can't), I think A&M will have plenty of success running this scheme. The main differnce will be that we won't turn out a QB who is quite so ready to run an NFL West Coast offense as Ryan Tannehill has been.

Bama counts on having the numbers to have fresh kids, that are more talented than the guys they are going against, line up against a fatigued opponent. Not much strategy or intellect involved with that.