Why will it be harder here than ole miss? Or ark? Or any other similar program?? You're just beating your head against the wall throwing a fit bc we aren't true air raid! I would understand if we lit the sec up with it, but we didn't.
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As probably one of Will's harshest critics around here (Bucky can attest), he's going to be just fine in this offense (probably better than AR).
Richardson, CMU's QB with Barbay, is a worse athlete and thrower than Will and threw for 2,633 yards at 60.3% with 24 TDs to 6 Ints on a 8.3 yards per throw average.
Brice is more athletic than Will but has a similar arm (if not weaker) and threw for 2,921 yards at 62.8% with 27 TDs to 6 Ints on a 8.4 yards per throw average.
If they can do that, Will will throw for at least 3,000 plus and 30 TDs again. His completion % may go down some with the more throws down the field but that will be it.
No, he doesn't. But he will cater the offense to the QB, and Will is different from everyone else. So what happens if Will gets hurt? It's really hard to make those kinds of adjustments in-season. You kinda saw that at Arkansas when KJ got hurt.
So my point was, you want the same types of QBs so they can all come in and run the offense. We're going to have QBs with different skill sets.
I see you what you are saying. Let's see who they bring in. I think Parson is different but he can sling it and you wouldn't have to change it much. Just add for his athleticism.
Honestly, I don't think we get Wright anyway. I look for him to go G5 to start. He would be good in a Mahlzon offense. But we need a back up and one with SEC or P5 playing experience would be hard to pass up right now.
Barbay runs a pro style spread. It's Jim McElwain's offense. Barbay learned it from him and has carried it with him in his limited coordinator experience. The roots of this offense is actually in the old Dennis Erickson one back system. McElwain picked it up while working for John L Smith and Scott Linehan at Louisville. Barbay picked it up working for McElwain at Colorado State, Florida, and Central Michigan.
Yeah, you don't know what you're talking about. I'd gently recommend watching some game film.
This is the problem with people trying to put offenses in neat boxes with labels on them. That's your first mistake. If I HAD to label what Barbay is going to run, I would call it "veer and shoot" which is nothing close to "pro style." But his offense has air raid elements in it, spread elements in it, and some power run game elements in it, which was something sorely missing last year.
You're going to love it. It's just gonna take you two years to admit it and take that message board L.