You want to see a coach who can adapt his system to fit his personnel instead of not adapting like Mac? Look at Bobby Petrino. He ran a a pro style for most of his career and now runs a pistol read option with Lemar Jackson. Saban even has gone to the read option more and more. Mac needs elite talent for his system to work completely. To do that he needs to upgrade the defensive staff and OL. Otherwise he will beat the cupcakes but not the elite teams.

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Petrino family coaching tree has a pretty simple offensive philosophy. Don’t get caught up in shoehorning a team into a pro-style, option or spread offense.

Just feed the studs.

“Find the best way to get the best player the ball,” Paul Petrino, younger brother of Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino, said.

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In 13 seasons as a head coach, Bobby Petrino has relied almost exclusively on classic dropback passers. For his first full recruiting class in his second stint at Louisville, in 2015, he was only interested in “home-run threats” as both a passer and runner. It was a break from Bobby’s mold, but there was a foundation for a dual-threat option in his lengthy offensive database.

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He’s always had the zone-read in the system but he’s just expanded it,” Paul said. “... One of the best things Bobby has always done is we have a big menu on offense. It’s about what the quarterback can do. You’re never going to pass up an unbelievable talent. You adjust.”

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Mac could've changed his scheme to fit Treon or try Jacob Guy. He did neither and it backfired

This post was edited on 10/20/16 at 4:49 am