Here’s a stat from last year to ponder:
Of the 15 fastest-paced offenses in 2014, nine managed to blow double digit leads they held in the 2nd half of the football game. This is a huge hole in tempo offensive strategy preventing it from totally catching on at bigger universities who prefer to impose their will with man-ball.
If you don’t want to play man-ball, what to do? One option might be to create a special team for what Boyd refers to as four-minute situations.
At these times an offense only wants to have run options and not give the defense the chance to dictate a pass, perhaps even putting someone on the field besides the Quarterback to execute the package. This should be fairly straightforward for most college teams, who generally have former option quarterbacks all over their offense and defense. If not, you still see teams employ their better DL as lead blockers on the goal line, why not embrace a similar philosophy to get the best players on the field to protect a 4th quarter lead?
If you have a team with moderate depth that runs hurry-up ball, I can see why that would be an attractive option. But if you coach one of those man-ball teams that runs a successful offense, what’s the point of going HUNH in the first place?