Columbia going with small offensive line
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Columbia going with small offensive line
Posted by: Weder (---.hsd1.or.comcast.net)
Date: September 14, 2012 09:29PM
Former Cornell football coach Pete Mangurian thinks you can use smaller, more agile linemen in college football and doesn't want any fatties at Columbia. Interesting.
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Re: Columbia going with small offensive line
Posted by: ugarte (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: September 15, 2012 10:26AM
He may be right in the Ivy League where attributes like speed, technical skill and brute strength are more interchangeable. His agile guys would probably get eaten alive in the SEC where you need all of those skills. There is a reason that the position evolved to fatties, and its that they got better at finding fatties who are also technically adept and fast.
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Re: Columbia going with small offensive line
Posted by: Robb (---.ks.ok.cox.net)
Date: September 15, 2012 11:03AM
Probably? My high school's current roster has 10 guys who are 230+. 227 isn't just small - it's tiny.ugarte
He may be right in the Ivy League where attributes like speed, technical skill and brute strength are more interchangeable. His agile guys would probably get eaten alive in the SEC where you need all of those skills. There is a reason that the position evolved to fatties, and its that they got better at finding fatties who are also technically adept and fast.
Re: Columbia going with small offensive line
Posted by: ugarte (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: September 16, 2012 11:49PM
That's a fair interpretation of what I typed but I didn't mean "the small guys who are Ivy League quality football players." I more meant "the strategy of sacrificing size/strength for speed/technique".Robb
Probably? My high school's current roster has 10 guys who are 230+. 227 isn't just small - it's tiny.ugarte
He may be right in the Ivy League where attributes like speed, technical skill and brute strength are more interchangeable. His agile guys would probably get eaten alive in the SEC where you need all of those skills. There is a reason that the position evolved to fatties, and its that they got better at finding fatties who are also technically adept and fast.
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