A Candid Conversation With Nebraska Offensive Coordinator Tim Beck, Parts 1 & 2

Are there plays where Nebraska has run the option? Yes. Obviously. Is Nebraska an option team? No.

Here's an article where Bo and Tim talk about the offense. No mention of an option.

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/bo-pelini-s-vision-tim-beck-s-creativity-fuel-high/article_b7c2b81b-01a8-5cc9-9441-458964af4fc8.html?mode=jqm

Here's one previewing our offense for UGA fans. Again, no option. Lots of "multiple" and other ambiguous, non identifying words as well.

http://www.dawgsports.com/2012/12/22/3793668/q-a-with-corn-nation-learn-more-about-nebraska-before-georgia-faces

Here's one from one of our fan sites. Not much option talk here either.

http://www.cornnation.com/2012/8/21/3257770/packaged-offense-calls

I still stand by my opinion.

 
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Count me in the camp that if it can work in Palo Alto, CA, Auburn AL, Madison WI and Tuscaloosa it can work here. Again.

I'm sick of the counter punching offense.
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Because having a run heavy offense, the conference's top rusher, and the nation's #9 rusher who is only behind someone from one of the schools you listed isn't working. Not to mention we rank 3 spots behind those dudes from Palo Alto and 5 spots ahead of the boys from Tuscaloosa all with our 1-2 rushing combo being reduced to a 1 for the majority of the season.
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Those schools have an identity. Nebraska does not.
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That's such a load of bullsh#t.
Tell me, what is their "identity" that makes them so unique, compared to Nebraska? All are different. Do they use zone or man? What type of route running concepts? Do they emphasize the QB run game?

And it's funny you mention Auburn, because we're similar philosophically.

It makes me think you're just trolling and piling on, because your argument makes no sense.
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I would say the only thing Auburn and Nebraska share is a desire to speed up playcalling to tire a defense out.

Malzahn has borrowed a lot from the run and blocking schemes that Osborne used to use, and that,obviously is not what Nebraska does now.

They typically use man blocking, but can drop into a zone.

Now, how did I get those specific answers? I looked it up. I simply googled "Auburn's offensive scheme" and got several pretty interesting articles detailing Malzahn's vision.

As a corollary, I also googled "Nebraska's offensive scheme". I got several articles detailing how they're searching for one, a bunch on the option (which isn't ran anymore by Nebraska, obviously), and some articles on Tom Osborne, who isn't the coach anymore.

And then going off of what Beck said to a guy who he knows personally (also in the article linked in this thread) we get a bunch of talk about complicated schemes, obsolete tight ends, and essentially a counterpunching offense that almost reminded me of the infamous "we take what we want" talk from Bill Callahan.

I think one of the biggest struggles Nebraska has is that it doesn't have an identity anymore. Stanford, Auburn, Wisconsin and Alabama do. This article and what I just looked at further did nothing to dissuade me from that point.
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Literally missing the forest for the trees. You're so caught up in wanting to peg what we do into a single word, you don't see what's staring you in the face. We're a power running team from a variety of formations. Literally everything you said about beck talking about the evolution of offenses is a red herring.

 
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Part two is up.

Lots of talk about "not enough hours in the day"

One would think that would lead to a simpler scheme.
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Oh, this again. If only we just "worked harder" and just got out there and "knocked guys on their asses" then we'd be just fine.

I mean, if we just fired the coaches, dumbed down the offense, cleaned out/replaced the training staff, and just ran to the ball, we'd be national champs in no time.

 
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Been saving that one for a while. It's awesome.

That said, the gif was just the sugar with the pill. Everyone needs to stop pushing buttons in this thread. I've been more than generous with warning shots.

 
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We are a power running team from a variety of formations
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I agree with you that that's what Nebraska SHOULD be, however I don't think many coaches on staff think that.

Consider this:

CornNation (Ty): When you look at your playbook, and the plays that you have as an offensive coordinator, what do you consider your bread and butter type plays?

Tim Beck: Defenses have really changed over the years in college football, just like offenses. Offenses have become fast-paced or "gimmicky" in what they do. What we call "reading", or we don't block somebody, but we basically react to what the defense does.

Because of that, teams have also become very gimmicky defensively. So, we're more predicated out of a zone concept where you have area blocking as opposed to man blocking because the men move so much and change so much that there's probably not enough time in the day to go over every single scenario.

So it's kind of like a zone defense in basketball, no matter what offense they run you've got to cover it and then as the game goes on, we make adjustments and could go to some of our man schemes and things like that once we figure out, "What are they really trying to do to us?"
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If there was ever a question where something to the effects of "Well we are a power running team and we like to use a variety of formations. I prefer plays like.....(insert very general play for audience here)", that was it. Instead, we as readers got a wordy, ambiguous, counterpunchy reply. Kind of like our offense.

Especially when you consider this.

http://www.cornnation.com/2008/9/24/620723/tom-osborne-on-offensive-p

Clear. Concise. Focus.

I think every aspect of the football program would benefit from that.

 
Like I said above, you're complaining because they didn't explain it well enough for you. Look at the tape, you'll see what we do. We run power (mostly zone) mixed in with read and some traditional option. We've been a power run team (between 60 - 70%) with some adjustments based on personnel. I think we'll end up close to 70% run this year too.

I also don't understand your complaints about "counter punching" because that's exactly what Tom did, he just was so good at it (honed over years of experience) that he knew the perfect counter.

This play was a specifically designed and run as a counterpunch.

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For not knowing what he is doing he sure does carve up the best defense in the country year in and out. Coach beck has spartys number. I like beck. Every offense wants to be multiple. Be able to adjust to what a defense is doing and give yourself the best chance to be successful. Most good offenses play a straight up numbers game. Count the box. Count the safeties. Pick your play. Even Wiscy at their best had a qb that could hurt u with his feet.

 
This is one of the things that annoy me about Beck.

http://m.omaha.com/huskers/mckewon-tim-beck-s-plan-reactive-risky-husker-offense-s/article_b013df9d-8c21-5519-b5f1-5e12f7ec3b83.html?mode=jqm

“When they play man-to-man coverage like they do, they could win eight of them and we win two (out of 10), they're probably 14 points with the guys we got,” Beck told The World-Herald's Dirk Chatelain. “We just didn't make those plays.”

Actually, Kenny Bell made a big catch on the first drive and Beck's right: It led to a touchdown. An inside screen to Quincy Enunwa would have if tackle Brent Qvale hadn't impeded his path.

Still: If Beck's comfortable with two out of 10 — that's two or three drives where Nebraska punts. Two or three drives where Minnesota holds the ball for an eternity.

Relying on receivers to catch deep balls from a rusty quarterback? That's risky on the road, in the cold and the wind, no matter how much you believe in the matchups. I watched Bill Callahan do that at Iowa State in 2004, throw 43 times with Joe Dailey as his starting quarterback because the matchups were there. NU lost 34-27, despite forcing seven punts and averaging 5.6 yards per rush.

Saturday, NU forced five punts and averaged 6.3 yards per rush. Beck stuck with the throw game.
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His plan is to succeed twice while failing 8 times passing instead of taking the 6 yards a rush the other team is allowing.

 
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