[washingtonismoney]

There was a quote somewhere that the only person who stopped Michael Jordan was Dean Smith.  This is how I felt in regards to Andrew Luck and Pep Hamilton/David Shaw.  Hamilton was quoted recently as saying:

"I feel like and I think about it all the time that I probably cost Andrew Luck the Voldemort," he said, later adding that Stanford's conservative play-calling against San Jose State left that game tied late.

http://stanford.scout.com/2/1252821.html

And then this over-conservative offense was amplified at the end of the Fiesta Bowl last year (grrrrr). 

Both of these points are silly:

1) Hamilton's job isn't a get-Heismans job. It's a winning job. That's the context of the quote.

2) The "conservative" offense wasn't terribly conservative against Oklahoma State. In fact, for most of it, it was quite aggressive. Only the final thirty seconds were conservative -- and it's a decision coaches like Harbaugh and Chip Kelly have made. If Hamilton/Shaw are overly conservative, a large percentage of the coaching profession is.

It's also hard to view the offense in 2011 as anything but dominant. If someone was stopping it, it sure as shit wasn't Hamilton.

[washingtonismoney]

There was a quote somewhere that the only person who stopped Michael Jordan was Dean Smith.  This is how I felt in regards to Andrew Luck and Pep Hamilton/David Shaw.  Hamilton was quoted recently as saying:

"I feel like and I think about it all the time that I probably cost Andrew Luck the Voldemort," he said, later adding that Stanford's conservative play-calling against San Jose State left that game tied late.

http://stanford.scout.com/2/1252821.html

And then this over-conservative offense was amplified at the end of the Fiesta Bowl last year (grrrrr). 

Both of these points are silly:

1) Hamilton's job isn't a get-Heismans job. It's a winning job. That's the context of the quote.

2) The "conservative" offense wasn't terribly conservative against Oklahoma State. In fact, for most of it, it was quite aggressive. Only the final thirty seconds were conservative -- and it's a decision coaches like Harbaugh and Chip Kelly have made. If Hamilton/Shaw are overly conservative, a large percentage of the coaching profession is.

It's also hard to view the offense in 2011 as anything but dominant. If someone was stopping it, it sure as shit wasn't Hamilton.