December 14, 2022 · 9:18 AM

Balance? Mike Leach doesn’t think that word means what you think it means, Mike Bobo.

For obvious reasons, this will always be my favorite Leach quote.

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27 responses to “Balance? Mike Leach doesn’t think that word means what you think it means, Mike Bobo.”

  1. Corch Irvin Meyers, Former Jags Corch (2021)
    December 14, 2022 at 9:25 AM

    I don’t agree with any of them, Leach, Bobo, or anyone else when it comes to “balance” because I think they all focus on the wrong things.

    I think balance on offense is taking what the defense gives you. I think balance means if they have 8 or more in the box, you throw the ball. If they have 7 or less in the box, you run the ball. If they’re playing press coverage, change the play to a play-action pass to give your WRs more time to get through five yards. If they’re playing zone, throw to your TE between the LBs and Safeties. If they’re coming on a blitz, change the play to a screen pass.

    Football is chess, but the defense has to declare SOMETHING that gives you an idea of what you should be doing if you use pre-snap motion, so it’s not rocket science.

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    • Gospel Dawg
      December 14, 2022 at 10:45 AM

      You have a point. It’s a definition that works. The larger point is Bobo and Leach are antithetical, Leach and Monk are close, and the offense has never looked better.

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    • akascuba
      December 14, 2022 at 12:12 PM

      Sounds like your describing coach Monken when he’s in win the game mode. Not in his running into brick wall on purpose teaching moments.

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      • Corch Irvin Meyers, Former Jags Corch (2021)
        December 14, 2022 at 12:19 PM

        Yeah. I mean, look. After the fact, I get what Kirby and Monken wanted to do at the end of the season, and if the SEC Title Game is proof, it didn’t hurt Stetson’s rhythm as much as I feared.

        MSU shut down our “non-trickeration” run game. Shut it down for real; that’s a good defense. So Kirby and Monken wanted to use the Kentucky and NATS games to get the running game back on track. I get it. I was worried about taking the ball out of Stetson’s hands so much, but he was good to go when he needed to spin it in Atlanta.

        But yeah, when Monken is calling the game based on what the defense gives him and he’s not trying to make a point, that’s definitely been his philosophy here. At other stops at Okie State and when he was head coach at Southern Miss, he did skew more closely to Air Raid principles. I think what he does at Georgia makes him more dangerous, though.

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    • otto1980
      December 14, 2022 at 12:26 PM

      Agreed on the flip side if you have DTs that can edge rush like DEs, DEs that can cover like LBs, and LBs that run like safeties, The D can be multiple out of the same formation. You may know the cushion for the WRs and box count for the running game but you don’t know who is dropping into coverage and may not know the type of coverage.

      As you said chess match.

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  2. Ben Dukes (@BenDukes)
    December 14, 2022 at 9:48 AM

    The Pirate receives the Bowers, Washington & McConkey seal of approval.

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  3. Dawgfan1995
    December 14, 2022 at 10:03 AM

    Didn’t Monken say something similar in getting the Broyles award?

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  4. Dawglicious
    December 14, 2022 at 10:15 AM

    I like the story about what he told a QB recruit, I think at Wazzu: “We’ll run it…when we have to.”

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    • jcdawg83
      December 14, 2022 at 11:12 AM

      If true; I’m glad he was never at Georgia. I prefer to run the ball when we “want to” and to pass the ball when we want to as well.

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  5. Gospel Dawg
    December 14, 2022 at 10:39 AM

    Heard an unfounded rumor that Bobo will take the go-between role for Stet and Monk. I’m afraid we are one Monken away from returning to Bobo as the OC. Hope my fears are unfounded. Someone talk me off the ledge. Yes, I know his offenses produced, but is he who players want to play for today? Shorter Bobo: get off my lawn!

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    • Corch Irvin Meyers, Former Jags Corch (2021)
      December 14, 2022 at 10:53 AM

      It’s not like Faulkner is on Pluto. He’s just down the road in Atlanta.

      If Monken were to take an NFL OC job after the Playoff, I think Faulkner becomes another in a long line of coaches that spends about a month on a job before taking an even better job.

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      • Stones Fan
        December 14, 2022 at 1:02 PM

        I’m more worried about Monken going to Starkvegas.

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        • eethomaswfnc
          December 14, 2022 at 1:18 PM

          Todd Monken is 56 years old and apparently is not a big fan of recruiting (other than QBs). He has said his wife is tired of the moving from place to place. It sounds like he hated his last NFL experience in Cleveland.

          I’m guessing from watching him in the press box during the SECCG, he loves what he is doing. He gets to coach football with the best toys that Kirby and Co bring him. He gets paid a ton of money to do it without having all of the head coaching headaches. He gets to live in a place where $2m+ goes a long way.

          He would be crazy to decide to take a head coaching job at a place like Mississippi State.

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    • silvercreekdawg
      December 14, 2022 at 11:14 AM

      Not an unfounded rumor. He has taken over Faulkner’s role.

      As far as him becoming OC again if/when Monken leaves, I think Kirby will search nationally for a replacement. I also expect several big name OCs will be very interested in the job if/when it opens.

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      • Gospel Dawg
        December 14, 2022 at 11:16 AM

        Thank you. I am out of the fetal position now.

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        • Russ
          December 14, 2022 at 11:39 AM

          While I hope Monken retires in Athens, I’d love to see a Bobo offense with the defenses Kirby has been putting out there lately. I doubt we’d notice much difference.

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          • Corch Irvin Meyers, Former Jags Corch (2021)
            December 14, 2022 at 12:14 PM

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          • akascuba
            December 14, 2022 at 12:31 PM

            If one day the job falls again to Bobo my guess is he would attempt to operate just as Monken does. In game planning probably no difference. With Kirby, Bobo and Boom game planning you wouldn’t feel overmatched.

            In game play calling Monken is something really excels at. Then the ability to know when to use his opponents as a teaching tool to sharpen his players weakness into strengths Monken does it better than anyone in the SEC. I don’t watch much out of conference FB until November.

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            • otto1980
              December 14, 2022 at 1:56 PM

              I have been critical of Bobo. He can be a good game planner, he can scout a team. It isn’t his scheme I don’t like. I actually think the time is right for a heavy I formation offense could shove around lighter faster defenses built to stop the spread.

              Monken has something that isn’t easy for a developed OC to learn. You have it or you don’t. Monken has been proven to call the game in such a way as to call the plays at the correct time to move the ball at a pace to keep the D rested when needed and have something in the bag when you need to convert. Bobo doesn’t have that edge in the 4th quarter in a must win game. UGA is good enough currently Bobo might win a championship. I like my chances better with Monken and would take my chances with other OCs before Bobo.

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      • FlyingPeakDawg
        December 14, 2022 at 1:13 PM

        Bobo had some “unpleasant” issues with personnel at CSU, plus his health issues. I don’t think he gets the OC job for us but is welcome for as long as he wants to stay. I could see him getting an OC job elsewhere but doesn’t he have like 11 kids or something? Tough to move a brood like that around the country.

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