Former Navy coach Paul Johnson is installing his flexbone option attack at Georgia Tech. As expected, he is being met with resistnace from some in the fan base that think the ACC is the NFL. Read the remarks from Paul Johnson below:
On how long it will take for people to stop asking if this offense will work...
"I don't think it will ever stop. I mean as soon as you lose a game, that's going to be the reason. Everybody has their opinion and we will see what happens. It's like I said before; I find it amusing really. It's past the point of anything else other than being amusing to me. You ask people why they say that and the only answer I can get is there's too much speed. We ran the offense at the Naval Academy against the same teams and I promise you the kids here are faster than the ones we had at the Naval Academy, so the essence of will-it-work is ludicrous now. I mean if you don't execute now when your young and you put the ball on the ground, then none of it will work. You can look back on last year and say the pro style of offense won't work either. Every time someone lost a game you could say, `well, that offense won't work'. If they don't score 30 or 40 points, it has a lot to do with how you execute and how you do it, not as much as what you're doing. In my mind, over the span of time we have proven the offense will work at a lot of different schools and a lot of different places.
"That's the thing that's hilarious: `at this level'. I mean, what, are we in the NFC East? When I was at the Naval Academy, I can promise you we played Maryland, Wake Forest, NC State, Duke, Rutgers, Boston College, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and they're on the same level as we are. It's not like they weren't in the same division or the same level, so that's why I don't buy that."
It has never made any sense to me whatsoever why the triple option would not work at a BCS school. I challenged people to explain why in a previous post and came up with no answer other than "speed," just as Johnson describes. That doesn't help. Would not offensive speed running the option counter defensive speed? My opinion is that running the option takes vision and an IQ over 100, somethings that most me-too, copycat head football coaches don't have.
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