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But more fundamentally, when you watch other college football games - any games, really - aren't you struck by how plodding and unremarkable Stanford's offense is in comparison?  You don't even need to know the first thing about football to conclude that Stanford is like molasses in everything they do offensively.  Someone on the other site just posted a Tweet from a Ryan McCrystal who noted that Stanford ran a play once every 37.9 seconds - the most laborious rate in all of college football.  He also noted that Shaw is stuck in a yesteryear offense and that the world has passed him by.  I don't know who this guy is, but perhaps others are finally taking notice of what's been going on at Stanford for far too long.

These are two separate complaints.
1) Stanford's offensive philosophy
2) Pace of play

Taking a lot of time in between plays doesn't mean you can't have a dynamic offense.  Look at the offenses we had in 2010 (Luck) or 2015 (McCaffrey), which were dynamic, varied, and effective.  But they still by and large huddled, and the length of time between plays was probably not much different than yesterday.
Alternatively, you can try to run a "tempo" offense and just not do it especially effectively.

The problem is that, right now, the offense is not effective.  I'm not sure that running a tempo offense would be better, just different.  And given how much trouble or defense has, I'm not sure that going three and out in one minute versus two and a half minutes would help us all that much.

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But more fundamentally, when you watch other college football games - any games, really - aren't you struck by how plodding and unremarkable Stanford's offense is in comparison?  You don't even need to know the first thing about football to conclude that Stanford is like molasses in everything they do offensively.  Someone on the other site just posted a Tweet from a Ryan McCrystal who noted that Stanford ran a play once every 37.9 seconds - the most laborious rate in all of college football.  He also noted that Shaw is stuck in a yesteryear offense and that the world has passed him by.  I don't know who this guy is, but perhaps others are finally taking notice of what's been going on at Stanford for far too long.

These are two separate complaints.
1) Stanford's offensive philosophy
2) Pace of play

Taking a lot of time in between plays doesn't mean you can't have a dynamic offense.  Look at the offenses we had in 2010 (Luck) or 2015 (McCaffrey), which were dynamic, varied, and effective.  But they still by and large huddled, and the length of time between plays was probably not much different than yesterday.
Alternatively, you can try to run a "tempo" offense and just not do it especially effectively.

The problem is that, right now, the offense is not effective.  I'm not sure that running a tempo offense would be better, just different.  And given how much trouble or defense has, I'm not sure that going three and out in one minute versus two and a half minutes would help us all that much.

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