re: A&M needs to fire Sumlin and hire a smash mouth football coach

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Auburn doesn't have a smash mouth football coach. He's won the SEC West and SEC.

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Ignorance is bliss sometimes. Auburn plays smashmouth football. Auburn also does not run a spread like most people think. Spreads are signified by a team's willingness to go 4-5 a great majority of the time(A&M and Wash St.). Auburn's base offense is a 3 wide set. Also spreads typically have larger splits along the O-line. Auburn doesn't do that. If you want to know what Auburn actually runs, it's a wing-t. It's an offense that's been in existence for over 60 years now. A book detailing what Malzahn runs was written in the 70's called "the Delaware Wing T: An Order of Football".

Here's an excerpt from the book about our offense...

The objective of offense in football is, of course, to move the ball and score; but every coach is confronted with the question, “How can this be done most efficiently?” The conception of any football system must begin with deciding whether the attack will be primarily running or passing. Certainly, every offense must create a balance between running and passing, but because of limited practice time, the design must favor one phase.

The Delaware offense is primarily a running attack for the following reasons:

The core of any football team is hardness and as there is no separation of offense from defense, the style of offense affects the defense. The development of a gruelling consistent ground game builds a desire to dominate the opponent physically.