I want to know what "Modern Football" means. The only descriptive criteria in that article was using the portal and NIL. My main problem with that is lets say you use the portal, what do you then do with the extra players on your team? Do you kick them out the door, revoke their scholarship? Then with NIL, how would you feel if you were a player, say like Arland Bruce who signed up to play for Iowa on a scholarship with no NIL guarantee and then you find out that Iowa goes out and pays a receiver out of the portal or in recruiting a million dollars? Its real easy here to completely lose your team and lose everything you stand for.
Now, that methodology may work for a team like Alabama or Ohio State that is much like the NFL in that it is all about "what have you done for me lately?" They can replace talent with talent and have no problem getting it. But that is not Iowa.
So to me all of this "modern football" stuff is bullshit. Did anyone rip Ryan Day last Saturday when they scored their first touchdown on 3rd and goal from the 2 when they lined up with a fullback? Where was all the "the fullback is a dinosaur and has no place in modern football" drivel that we hear all the time. We didn't hear shit because it worked. What also worked for CJ Stroud is play-action. And Stroud didn't take off and run up and down the field either. Football is still all about blocking, passing, running, etc., the basic fundamentals. And no matter if you run the wishbone or the air raid, both can work with enough talent and execution and neither will work without it.
I don’t have enough time to address the stupid in this post, so I will let Nick Saban do it for me. He seems like a guy that may know what he is talking about.
Nick Saban recalls his decision to adapt his offensive philosophy at Alabama
College football isn't what it was when Saban was coming up.
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