re: Why does the pro style offense work at Boise?

Yo is Hud running the pro style at ULL? I know he did at UNA.

Maybe we can revisit this thread in a few years with another non-BCS case to study

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and they started to pull away from UGA when they went to an offense of passing, b/c their run wasn't doing much early

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Georgia has zero answer for the hurry up offense. Guys were hardly able to stand up. If they hadnt "injured" themselves on several plays Boise would have beat them worse.

Hey, its one game, I know but that day Boise kicked the shite out of Georgia in every way.

They use just about everyone on their depth chart and exploit every mismatch possible. So, like the Saints, they don't have a true #1 at RB or WR which makes them more difficult to scout and defend against.

Broseph Barksdale,

There are quite a few reasons Boise has been able to play the style of football you mentioned.

First of all, props for recognizing Boise’s physical style. So many people think Boise and immediately ideas of Oregon or Hawaii’s spread come to mind when in reality that couldn’t be any further from the truth. Boise runs more 11, 12 and even 13 personnel than almost any team in the nation. Like you mentioned, they line it up and run it right at you.

One of the main reasons Boise is successful in this system is because, quite frankly, they are extremely well-coached and their technique is flawless. While Peterson gets all the credit, I wouldn’t be surprised if you saw someone come try to snatch-up his offensive line coach soon. People think blocking with tight ends is about overwhelming a team with size and strength, but it’s much more about angles, footwork and hand placement than anything. To block a defensive end or a linebacker with a tight end, you have to the right steps at the right angle and attack the defender with the right placement, because the defensive end is bigger than you and the linebacker is more athletic than you. Boise’s tight ends, and all their offensive lineman for that matter, put on a clinic when it comes to blocking.

The second reason they’re successful is because of their redshirting and strength program. Boise, similar to TCU, believes in redshirting almost every single person they sign. They also believe in recruiting similar to how LSU does on defense. They want to take athletic tight ends, redshirt them, add 50 pounds of good weight to them, and turn them into offensive tackles. That’s how you get someone like Nate Potter. Potter was a tight end when he signed with Boise. They redshirted him and used 2-3 years to pack the weight on him.

They also used this time to teach him the proper technique. Too often left tackles who comes in at 6’5 300+ are too used to simply overpowering people and have atrocious technique. When you take undersized, athletic tight ends it forces them to develop superior technique. Then, as they gain strength and size, you have a guy who has superior technique, has maintained his athleticism, and is now the same size as other offensive tackles. It’s the same thing they did with Billy Wynn who came to Boise as an athletic defensive end.

Boise succeeds because of their execution and technique coupled with the fact that by the time individuals start on their offensive lines they’ve usually been in the system for 3-4 years and have learned the right technique and have put on the necessary weight while maintaining their athleticism.

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Offensive linemen never get enough credit. They can make terrible QBs look halfway decent, an average running back a pro-bowler, and a coach a genius.

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Yea OL are the real stars of football.

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run heavy

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=/= Boise's offense this year. They operate out of a pro set, but they sling it around not unlike WVU. Despite having a decent TB, they haven't been able to run the ball consistently.