Why not?

According to an article posted today, Ball State is trying to do the same thing.

Football simple game really. "Run the ball, stop the run, win the game." This season with a new defensive front Ohio's offense will be key to winning T.O.P. I am for anything that will create first downs or touchdowns. The offense will have to win some tougher games than last season. Given some special plays from the special teams This season might be fun to watch. My point, however does not matter, the offense needs to control the ball and with good special teams win the socalled "battle of field position."

I read that article and got real excited for football season.  We have the players to do this.

I hope they can pull it off.  But even if they can't, it'll be great for the D.  No huddle has given us problems during recent seasons, and if the D can get used to defending it, they'll be more effective.

Let's see...The spread is spreading.  As has the wildcat (nee single wing) and as did the triple-option, wishbone, veer, winged T, T,   Yet we still see plenty of low-scoring games.  So my question is: how have total points per 1-A game changed over, say, the last 25 seasons?

Are we seeing appreciably more points scored per game?  Or not? 

A bobcatattack stats maven likely can unearth the answer with a few savvy clicks. 

I think this would be a great move IF the players and coaches can execute the plays smoothly. One of the things that bothered me a bit about the Bobcats the past couple of years was the plodding slow pace of the team between snaps. I think a hurry up will keep the players more intense.

Ran into Phil Bates today while he was jogging on west union..not a man gawker but Whoa nelly...he is a freak of nature..I once met Boo Jackson and Shaq O'Neal and the same thing popped into my mind..I would not want to make these guys mad! Bates reminds me of the he-man figurines I had as a child but bigger and faster.

It must be noted that when Oregon has gone up against top-flight defenses in bowl games, they have met with very stiff resistance. Noticed that with the option... some teams just knew how to defend it, others looked befuddled for 60 minutes and looked like they had concrete shoes.

There is a huge difference between implementing a new offense in spring ball than what you were suggesting - trying to change the offensive scheme in between week 4 and week 5.

Uncle Wes makes a good point about the slowness of our offense as we lined up at scrimmage in years past.  We looked so uncertain and unready so often.  I was not advocating that we wholesale go to the hurry-up last year.  I was merely advocating that we use it occasionally.  We didn't even have to run different plays.  We could have run our usual offense.  Just the change in tempo alone would have been a new thing for opposing defenses.  It would have, by engaging more of the brain part of football, given us slight advantage at points.

O-ree-gonz offense having a tough time against top teams?--did you see the title game?  Their loss to 'burn was not because of the hurry-up.  It was due to running 180 or so lb running backs at the goal line.  Ya need beef at the goal line at some points.  It's so blindingly evident as something we've lacked over the last 3-5 years that it requires no explanation.

The Ducks disdained a field goal at the Auburn goal line with about 4 mintues left, instead running their lightweight rb's.  Got no points.  Later they got to the goal line and their lightweight rb's again were stopped.  Until--brainpower--they didt hat pitch forward to an rb run that the Dallas Cowboys use.  That brains-over-brawn play got them the td.  But they lost because they failed to get points at the 4 minute mark because they didn't have an elephant rb to run it in.

Ya need some stampeding big running backs and ya needs to engage the brainpower.

That said, I don't think we should run the hurry-up all of the time.  Variety in our offense is variety of problems which we can blow at the oppo's defense.

If you go to the spring game, don't be near the sideline.  I think there's gonna be some bigtime talent hitting and playmaking going on.