Running an effective offense can't be this hard?

I understand that we, as laymen, cannot hope to understand all of the intricacies of running a Division I College Football program. But, from what I have seen, coupled with a limited knowledge of the X's and O's aspect of football, could this streamline our offense?

1. Use Jordan Jefferson in the shotgun or 5 wide. This would alleviate his 10 step drops which out runs his tackle protection. Also, from shotgun, he could see what the defense is doing better and be more apt to react faster.

2. Use Russell Shepherd on any designed QB keeper plays, option plays and maybe even some I formation (with short passes to build early confidence). Shepherd seems like a natural running the ball and finding the holes/corner. Although he is smallish and gets manhandled sometimes (with a couple fumbles). This will add another aspect to our offense, that teams would have to prepare for.

3. These designations do not mean that Jefferson couldn't be in for designed run, or run an option here or there (even though he hasn't looked good on the option plays thus far). It just give him a smaller number of plays/reads/offenses to learn right now.

4. Regarding the run game, it seems to me that runs to the outside and misdirection has been our most effective areas in the run game. Now I realize that running between the tackles is necessary but at the same time, if it isn't working by now, it may be time to "try" picking up ground yards somewhere else.


5. Use the H-Back screen more. I love some of our Wide Out screens, but I really believe that with our inability to block well, coupled with our problems developing a run threat, mixing in a screen with Scott or Keiland a few times a game will catch aggressive D's (like Saban's Bama D) off guard.

**this is, if Scott and Keiland are good catching out of the backfield, which I haven't seen them fail at.

I don't know, maybe I'm just frustrated with the product I have seen so far this season or maybe I just don't know enough about the nature of offensive gameplanning to know what our staff is trying to do.