someone over the winter brought up his name from the Colorado School of Mines. Man was that fun to watch. He won't be at Montana long.
Bob Stitt
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I'm the one who started the thread about him being at least our OC and honestly wouldn't mind him as our HC. Great personality, great offense. Deserves to be a HC as a Power 5 soon in my opinion.
Great idea - but I think the ship has sailed on this one. DH had the chance to jettison Shoop and bring in a dynamic OC to generate some buzz this past off season.
He declined to do so - and he will live with the results.
Perhaps he was worried about hiring his own successor!
He declined to do so - and he will live with the results.
Perhaps he was worried about hiring his own successor!
How Montana coach Bob Stitt's fun and lethal offense actually works
Stitt happens. Stitt just happened to FCS No. 1 North Dakota State, 38-35. But *how* does Stitt happen?
College football fans who tuned in to the season's true opener were given a rare treat when Bob Stitt's Montana "Griz" took on four-time FCS champions North Dakota State on national television. It's not common that most fans actually get to see a Stitt offense or the brilliance of the Bison.
What they saw was a first-time starting QB in a system just installed this offseason throwing the ball 55 times for 434 yards, good for 7.89 yards per pass, with three touchdowns and a single interception. Brady Gustafson had quite a nice day, and it was coming against a Bison defense that is better than many (maybe most?) FBS defenses.
The Grizzlies' new offense is explosive, and it's likely to only improve as Gustafson and his receivers learn to adjust to blitzes and defenses. You wonder how long Stitt will stick around at Montana now that his name is getting out there, but the Grizzlies set up for an entertaining playoffs run regardless.
If you haven't had a chance to take in his offense with your own eyes, here's how #StittHappens.
The Stitt philosophy
The first thing most people heard about Stitt was that he designed a play West Virginia's head coach Dana Holgorsen used in a blowout victory in the Orange Bowl.
It was a basic fly sweep play, but executed from the shotgun, with QB Geno Smith tossing the ball out in front to the receiver sweeping across the formation. Stitt reasoned that if the handoff was risky, since it could become a fumble, why not make it a toss? A fumbled exchange would be an incomplete pass rather than a potential turnover.
Clemson was befuddled.
Another revelation of Stitt's brilliance came from a play he imparted to Kevin Sumlin and Texas A&M, a WR tunnel screen designed to beat man coverage.
Better defenses will train their players to recognize screens and ruin them by halting in their paths. The idea is to find the receiver as the blockers move to find targets at the next level. Man blitzers can sniff out and destroy tunnel screens, if they become proficient at recognizing them.
With the Stitt version, the defense isn't tipped off. The D can struggle to get numbers to the ballcarrier if the receivers' blocks are executed properly.
You'll notice Holgorsen and Sumlin are part of the air raid coaching tree, and that's where Stitt belongs, as well. What he has designed is one of the best finesse spread offenses in the country, with several clever adaptations to make it particularly explosive.
The run game is basically just a constraint. The offense is designed to punish every opponent response with the passing game, and when Stitt can, he goes for the throat.
Encouraging man coverage
The first part of the plan is to encourage man coverage, despite his players sometimes being physically outmatched in his previous stint at Colorado School of Mines and at Montana against the Bison.
He explained in Houston that he used to dread opponents lining up in press coverage and blitzing his team, but the back shoulder throw had offered a solution. 'We want man coverage, and we've got receivers who run 4.8 and 4.9 40s,' he said.
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*Didn't want to post the entire article in here, but if you want to read more:
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2015/9/4/9241843/bob-stitt-offense-montana
Stitt happens. Stitt just happened to FCS No. 1 North Dakota State, 38-35. But *how* does Stitt happen?
College football fans who tuned in to the season's true opener were given a rare treat when Bob Stitt's Montana "Griz" took on four-time FCS champions North Dakota State on national television. It's not common that most fans actually get to see a Stitt offense or the brilliance of the Bison.
What they saw was a first-time starting QB in a system just installed this offseason throwing the ball 55 times for 434 yards, good for 7.89 yards per pass, with three touchdowns and a single interception. Brady Gustafson had quite a nice day, and it was coming against a Bison defense that is better than many (maybe most?) FBS defenses.
The Grizzlies' new offense is explosive, and it's likely to only improve as Gustafson and his receivers learn to adjust to blitzes and defenses. You wonder how long Stitt will stick around at Montana now that his name is getting out there, but the Grizzlies set up for an entertaining playoffs run regardless.
If you haven't had a chance to take in his offense with your own eyes, here's how #StittHappens.
The Stitt philosophy
The first thing most people heard about Stitt was that he designed a play West Virginia's head coach Dana Holgorsen used in a blowout victory in the Orange Bowl.
It was a basic fly sweep play, but executed from the shotgun, with QB Geno Smith tossing the ball out in front to the receiver sweeping across the formation. Stitt reasoned that if the handoff was risky, since it could become a fumble, why not make it a toss? A fumbled exchange would be an incomplete pass rather than a potential turnover.
Clemson was befuddled.
Another revelation of Stitt's brilliance came from a play he imparted to Kevin Sumlin and Texas A&M, a WR tunnel screen designed to beat man coverage.
Better defenses will train their players to recognize screens and ruin them by halting in their paths. The idea is to find the receiver as the blockers move to find targets at the next level. Man blitzers can sniff out and destroy tunnel screens, if they become proficient at recognizing them.
With the Stitt version, the defense isn't tipped off. The D can struggle to get numbers to the ballcarrier if the receivers' blocks are executed properly.
You'll notice Holgorsen and Sumlin are part of the air raid coaching tree, and that's where Stitt belongs, as well. What he has designed is one of the best finesse spread offenses in the country, with several clever adaptations to make it particularly explosive.
The run game is basically just a constraint. The offense is designed to punish every opponent response with the passing game, and when Stitt can, he goes for the throat.
Encouraging man coverage
The first part of the plan is to encourage man coverage, despite his players sometimes being physically outmatched in his previous stint at Colorado School of Mines and at Montana against the Bison.
He explained in Houston that he used to dread opponents lining up in press coverage and blitzing his team, but the back shoulder throw had offered a solution. 'We want man coverage, and we've got receivers who run 4.8 and 4.9 40s,' he said.
........
*Didn't want to post the entire article in here, but if you want to read more:
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2015/9/4/9241843/bob-stitt-offense-montana
I'd pay whatever I could to get this guy in West Lafayette. Tired of lackluster offenses that don't put players in position to succeed.
This is what Purdue needs to be a winner. An innovator.
Tressell ball at Purdue is beyond ignorant.
Tressell ball at Purdue is beyond ignorant.
