re: If you hire Jimbo, here is what you can expect.

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Just want to give you one minor warning. There is one way he will frustrate fans to no end. He is tied at the hip to Rick Trickett, OL coach. Trickett is a firm believer in basing the running game on zone blocking, specifically the zone stretch. (Note running the option, not the zone read. Zone blocking is totally different.) Nole fans have gotten unbelievably frustrated at seeing Nole OL dance around and "finesse block" rather than blow folks off the line.

But, the frustration comes when it is 3rd and 1. Or it is first and goal at the five. Those have become passing downs for us because the OL can't blow people off the line and there are too many guys in the box to run the zone stretch.

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The ZBS is really only two plays: inside and outside. I detest it at the professional level, but I understand the appeal in college.

If you only have to practice / teach / rep 2 basic run patterns, you free yourself up for an awful lot of work on pass blocking.

Not having the ability to line up and push the defense is pretty ridiculous, though.