re: Comparing Alabama offensive coordinators, Sark, Locks, Dabol, Kiffin

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1. He won two NCs...more than any other OC.

2. He won those NCs with McElroy and McCarron. I don't know that those guys are exactly RPO QBs. Maybe.

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We won those with defense, not offense.

I disliked McElwain because he always attacked the short side of the field.

When people talk balance, they tend to look at it in rush yard and passing yards. But when 90% of your passes are WR screens and such, it's not really balanced because you are attacking the short side of the field with the running game and also with the passing game.

You really need to launch some mid range and deep balls to keep the defense from shorting up.

But I mean as far as those times go, we won on defense. And the 2009 year was especially bad later in the year because everyone was shorting the field on us because McElroy couldn't hit much of anything deep. So we put Ingram in the wildcat just for the numbers advantage up close and had success that way. Had some great running lines then too.