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Well, Locksley and Sark also didn't grow up in this offense - especially Sark (Locks grew up in the spread, but not quite this version of it).

I'm not talking about passing vs running, necessarily. I'm talking about meshing our head coach and program philosophy with what we do on offense. And you mention Clemson, but there aren't very many other places that have figured out how to mesh those two things together.

This is the exact problem I’ve been alluding to.
We don’t have an OC who is truly new school.

The solution is that our head coach needs to mesh with the new formula of dominant football. Our OC, whoever he is, needs to stop trying to mesh with Saban, and the old school way. We need to go all in with this new offensive philosophy.
LSU, OSU, and Clemson are perfect models of what the elite modern programs look like. You have a CEO at head coach, and a lot more emphasis is placed on the coordinators. It’s actually perfect for an older head coach. Saban needs to stick around for messaging and overall direction, but philosophically, and schematically, he needs to let the coordinators run the show. I think he’s already doing this to some degree, but our coordinators suck right now.

Let a young guy run our offense, and find somebody - anybody - who has proven they can slow down these new offenses, to run our defense.

Saban needs to go out and get the very best coordinators in the country, and ride out the latter part of his career.

This post was edited on 11/12/19 at 2:33 am