re: Modern Offense. Modern offense, modern offense

For the next "however many years" that Saban coaches he has been Schematically upstaged by Swinney and he knows that the Status Quo at ALA cannot compete with the new Benchmark Scheme at Clemson:

For Nick Saban, sometimes wholesale change is necessary, even a year after another significant overhaul of his coaching staff.

Coming off Alabama’s disastrous 44-16 loss to Clemson in the College Football Playoff National Championship, by far the most lopsided defeat of his 12-year tenure in Tuscaloosa, Saban has once again completely turned over his Crimson Tide assistant coaching staff with the yet-to-be-announced hiring of seven new assistant coaches in the past three weeks.

“I think you’re always going to have changes,” Saban told Birmingham's CBS 42 last Thursday night. “You’d like to have continuity, but I think sometimes changes bring a lot of positive energy, new energy, new ideas and we’re looking forward to sort of rebuilding the program so that it’s what we want it to be.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do, but I’m excited about the people we’ve been able to get to attract to come to Alabama.”

2017 2 wks after a 74 yr record 37-7 loss to an unranked team (MSST) LSU lost to Troy "the worst thing to happen to the SEC" per Saban who needs LSU to be ranked highly when he plays them FWIW. 'Troy is a million miles ahead of LSU offensively in 'Scheme & Execution'. Think about that. There is nothing more useless than being efficient at that which is obsolete. To put LSU's 'AWful-offense' into perspective there are no scholars of the game studying how to be offensively obsolete. Our OC is obsolete. Saban is changing his who killed us but couldn't compete with Clemson.

In 2008 Troy took a 31-3 lead late in the 3rd Qtr against LSU at TS with a modern spread up-tempo O. The Coach, Blakeney, shut down the spread attack from Levi Brown and went into a "Miles" TOP wishbone, lost the momentum and the game. Blakeney said afterward that you never do something innovative and new for part of the game and then lock it down with TOP ball control. He said you are either all in or you deserve to get whipped.

Fisher said you never sit on a 2-3 touchdown lead because momentum can change and you might not get it back. There is not such thing as garbage time. You keep scoring until the end of the game, until you have robbed the other team of all hope, broken, crushed, and driven a stake through their heart.

The game Clemson was playing was entirely different than Saban had ever dealt with before. His brain did not work the way Dabo's did. On third and long with Clemson pinned back Lawrence threw TD after TD in man coverage over overmatched DBs heads.

Of all the teams to make it through to the Super Bowl the Rams were the most conventional, decipherable, by a Defense. They still run 40% or more conservative play-action passes where the line is pass blocking vs RPO run/pass blocking.