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[berk18]

Thanks, everybody. It’s been a lot of fun looking at Ludwig’s offense. I didn’t do these breakdowns when he was at Cal or Oregon, and fans at both schools hated him, but I was definitely intrigued when I watched his Vanderbilt team. I mentioned it in the video, but the QB coaching is really what stands out to me this year vs. last year. Your offense now has a lot of volume in terms of different plays/concepts, and against us at least it looked like both QB’s really knew what they were doing. That sounds kind of like faint praise, but in college football it’s definitely not.

[berk18]

Thanks for the kind words!  I’m only an analyst if you count these videos.  About 10 years ago I wanted to know more about the technical side of the game and got frustrated that there weren’t many good resources written for fans, so for the last decade I’ve watched as many clinic DVD’s as possible, read a bunch of coaching books, and broken down a bunch of games until everything finally started to make sense.  Now I’m trying to make the kind of content that I wish I’d had, aimed at teaching the technical stuff to an audience that doesn’t have a playing or coaching background.  I’m glad that people enjoy it!

[berk18]

Wow.  Great stuff.  I can see why it is very challenging to be a great QB.  Some of our rival fans claim TH isn’t very intelligent.  I think this video proves otherwise.

 

It’s hilarious trying to imagine Ludwig, who’s a pretty cerebral guy, communicating his offense to a guy who’s “not intelligent.” I don’t know anything at all about Huntley off the field, and these things don’t always translate (just like lots of people are good at some academic subjects but not others), but at the very least your processing speed and working knowledge have to be really solid. There’s just too much information, and it’s coming at you too fast in this kind of system.

[berk18]

It was. It was the play immediately after the pass right at the goalline that I showed in the video. The Utes came up to the line and ran the same play out of the same formation. Cal switched to Cover-0, since it was at the 1, and so the CB’s covered the WR’s on the stick routes man-to-man, and the Safeties ran with the Flats by the Wing TE’s. When Kuithe crossed the WR to get outside in the flat, it created traffic for the Safety covering him, springing him free to get into the end zone.