Football: the Coming Paradigm Shift?

The Chavis era is over. It was a grand experiment which attained, eh – modest results all things considered. After the ’08 turnover and Malleveto debacle, Les changed directions. It’s what we’ve seen since – conservative O, controlled D, superior ST’s. I’ll call it the “GoRu” after Gordy Rush who first suggested (as far as I know) that Les could take this approach and win 80% of the games which would be enough to give him job security.

Chavis was a perfect fit for GoRu. I would love to know what ‘went-down’ with Chavis leaving as well as the DC search. For now, I’m in the dark. That said, the presence of O and Steele on the D side signal that we’ll play more aggressively on D than under Chavis. And in turn, I think our O will be more aggressive (not to be understood as air-raid, spread, etc but more in terms of throwing early in the game, throwing on 1st down, throwing over the middle of the field, throwing to the TE

In summary, I think we’ll see game plans more akin to Les’s earlier years than those of the Chavis;s era.

It was a great night for Tigers – baseball win, women’s hoop win, gymnastics win, softball win.