Oh but it has
Anyone can read the Oregon site, the fishducks site- you would find a lot of what Oregon does has morphed over time
I realize this may be something new for those that think Chip Kelley coached at USC
BTW we wont be a zone read team
Over time we will be a zone team- there is a difference in how the backside DE is accounted for
That will also mean the "zone read" plays that are aren't a read and are optimized for the keep or give will be gone too-
The plays Imani could have run, plays we ran years ago- the power read and sweep read (inverted veer) are long gone- when Beck tired of having hurt QBs- Those WERENT zone read plays, MUCH different series- announcers were clueless as to what those plays were and we ran them a bunch.
Nothing in Kelleys Nike Coach of the year notes discounted what I said about zone runners
Note that Oregon has had small shifty backs- because they run a ton of zone
Imani wouldn't see the field for them in their scheme, I take that back- they probably wouldn't have recruited him
What I learned about zone didn't come from a single article I downloaded 10 minutes prior to my post
As I said before LOTs of High SChool teams wont run zone- because they don't have kids who can run it
You can have a great kid, good speed, power, even good in HS who never gets how to run zone, it happens
Same goes even for some big time programs. I heard Saban talk a couple of years ago about a year they ran a bunch of gap stuff because they didn't have a consistent zone runner.
