It's a story about a ND guy and his connection to two highly drafted or soon to be drafted QB's. Vigen isn't making the claim he's the "QB Whisperer". He has something to do with their success. More than likely they'd have the same success with any other coach.
Don Morton and Jim Wacker literally wrote the book on the veer offense titled The Explosive Veer Offense for Winning Football.
https://www.amazon.com/Explosive-Vee.../dp/0132980185
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Never said Mess was bad, nor did I say our offense was bad. I was referring to what seems to be more zone read option vs. power football. It seems we run much more read/option than ever before and, to me, it seems like it leads to quite a few 3rd and long situations. In the 1st half of the championship game we hardly ran any power, it was all read/option. The second half we come out and ran more power and we started to gain huge chunks of yardage, but then would go back to read/option and the drives would stall out. It seemed to me that we could have broke the game loose if we would have consistently stayed with power football. In the second half, we had the boot on their throat and then would continue to let up, however, it could just be my perception as I have never actually broke down the game film and compared power run plays vs. read/option.
Like I said, I wasn't complaining about Mess, just pointing out a difference between Vigen and himself. Again, this could all just be my perception, when in reality, not much at all has changed. In the end, it really doesn't matter as the end result has still been the same and I am not complaining about domination the MVFC and continually winning national championships. As the old saying goes: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Just something to discuss in the off season.
Ha Ha, yeah I was in the stands as a student during those years and we did indeed have great offenses, however, I don't remember any track meets at dacotah field. I guess what I really remember is some nasty, kick ass defenses that just swarmed over the opposition. They were relentless, and the great defense is what I really remember as a student back in the eighty's.
Those were truly some all around great teams we had back then. Just like what we have going on right now.
If you go back to the SF lost to JMU, their defense was designed to stop NDSU’s power-run. They were so overly committed to it that they gave up big plays pretty much every time the Bison threw in a change of direction play. Why NDSU didn’t continue to exploit this during that game is a big mystery to me. Especially after Grimsley’s interception.
As far as the rematch in the Championship Game, keep in mind that the Bison scored all of their points in the first half. So the scheme change can’t be considered less successful than the shift back to their power-run scheme in the second half.
As successful as the Bison have been with the power-run game, it cannot be the only scheme they play. Otherwise, other teams will figure out how to beat you. The SF lost was proof of that and signs of the difficulty could be detected as early as the opening game that season versus Charleston Southern - maybe even earlier.
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When I posted this, I didn't expect this much Vigen support. I have viewed Bville for many years b4 joining. I remember lots of bitching about him. A LOT.
I don't get it either.
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