There's a lot we don't know.
But here's where we can start digging around:
1. It will be an Art Briles derivative offense. That's not unexpected, but it's also true that Sterlin did some fancy name dropping today and I have to believe he was sending every signal he could both to Texas HS coaches and Texas players. He intends to bring a Briles offense and you might as well not make any bones about it.
2. His specific variant will be a more balanced, "power run from the spread" version of this offense.
To date, this is my favorite offensive concept that exists in CFB. This was OU's basic philosophy (lots of different ways to execute this philosophy, btw) in it's most dominant period of winning the B12, and it's also the major shift that Meyer made when he installed his offense up at tOSU (well, it's more complicated than that--Meyer has always seen himself as a power/spread guy, but Herman brought him into the inside zone version of it--which is less power-y--but Meyer's tOSU teams are much more power built now than it even seemed at Florida. Now, Meyer is really running a spread/run/power/invertedveer/Oregon type of hybrid that is fascinating to watch evolve).
But the point is, the "power run from the spread" concept has many different personalities and methodologies behind it, but this is where Sterlin is going.
This is particularly intersting because Briles has done a lot with these ideas before, but Florence, Petty, and Russell led Briles down a variant of his offense that moved AWAY from the real "spread/power run" concepts and they went more pure passing/Tempo offenses for the last few years. There's still plenty of hints as to how Sterlin may apply these ideas if you dig through Briles' history--especially a bit earlier in his career and then into the RGIII offenses. Briles has always used some power run theory for situational attacking at Baylor, but I wouldn't say he defined himself by it. That's what Sterlin did today on that topic--he put that flag in the ground.
But none-the-less, Sterlin will not be making a carbon copy of the current branch of the Baylor offense.
Guys, this is on of the truly fun parts of following this game. Especially for me--I love this stuff as much more than gamedays at times. We will get a chance to watch a meaningful evolution in the branch of a coaching tree come under great public scrutiny and pressure next year at Texas. And our version will come with Traylor as a fellow offensive mind informing the mix along with Strong's staff on defense (yes, I know our defense struggled last season, but you could hardly ask for a better defensive mind to engage the ideas behind this offense, philosophically, than Strong). And let's not forget that by Bringing in Gilbert/Maddox/Traylor this year, that Strong's ability to understand, predict, and defend against these offenses will likely make a much needed evolution of it's own.
3. So for anyone looking forward to working through some of the Xs and Os and trying to form their own perspective to both anticipate, and evaluate, what might be coming, here are some links:
Regarding the Briles-derivative offense in general:
http://www.footballstudyhall.com/20...all-art-briles-lache-seastrunk-spread-offense
http://grantland.com/features/chris...offense-made-baylor-national-title-contender/
http://smartfootball.com/spread/goo...ith-baylor-hc-art-briles#sthash.1xv3U6XO.dpbs
https://www.reddit.com/r/footballstrategy/comments/2tcwvl/offensive_breakdowns_baylor/
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/117431/coaches-name-baylors-briles-best-for-offense
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...t-briles-baylor-iowa-state-cyclones/16144921/
http://www.wsj.com/articles/baylor-...llege-football-is-also-the-laziest-1447358072
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...oleman-art-briles-alabama-michigan-ohio-state
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...h-russell-shock-linwood-run-offense/73311858/
Regarding the "power run from spread" concepts in general:
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/c...-oregon-ducks-urban-meyer-tom-herman-offense/
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/02/not-all-spreads-are-alike
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/01/why-spread-it-is-all-about-arithmetic
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/03/installing-an-offense-urban-meyer-edition
http://smartfootball.com/gameplanni...about-successful-offense#sthash.GCuZvdws.dpbs (Very interesting piece of "spread to run installation").
http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/06/urban-meyer-q-on-his-offense.html
But here's where we can start digging around:
1. It will be an Art Briles derivative offense. That's not unexpected, but it's also true that Sterlin did some fancy name dropping today and I have to believe he was sending every signal he could both to Texas HS coaches and Texas players. He intends to bring a Briles offense and you might as well not make any bones about it.
2. His specific variant will be a more balanced, "power run from the spread" version of this offense.
To date, this is my favorite offensive concept that exists in CFB. This was OU's basic philosophy (lots of different ways to execute this philosophy, btw) in it's most dominant period of winning the B12, and it's also the major shift that Meyer made when he installed his offense up at tOSU (well, it's more complicated than that--Meyer has always seen himself as a power/spread guy, but Herman brought him into the inside zone version of it--which is less power-y--but Meyer's tOSU teams are much more power built now than it even seemed at Florida. Now, Meyer is really running a spread/run/power/invertedveer/Oregon type of hybrid that is fascinating to watch evolve).
But the point is, the "power run from the spread" concept has many different personalities and methodologies behind it, but this is where Sterlin is going.
This is particularly intersting because Briles has done a lot with these ideas before, but Florence, Petty, and Russell led Briles down a variant of his offense that moved AWAY from the real "spread/power run" concepts and they went more pure passing/Tempo offenses for the last few years. There's still plenty of hints as to how Sterlin may apply these ideas if you dig through Briles' history--especially a bit earlier in his career and then into the RGIII offenses. Briles has always used some power run theory for situational attacking at Baylor, but I wouldn't say he defined himself by it. That's what Sterlin did today on that topic--he put that flag in the ground.
But none-the-less, Sterlin will not be making a carbon copy of the current branch of the Baylor offense.
Guys, this is on of the truly fun parts of following this game. Especially for me--I love this stuff as much more than gamedays at times. We will get a chance to watch a meaningful evolution in the branch of a coaching tree come under great public scrutiny and pressure next year at Texas. And our version will come with Traylor as a fellow offensive mind informing the mix along with Strong's staff on defense (yes, I know our defense struggled last season, but you could hardly ask for a better defensive mind to engage the ideas behind this offense, philosophically, than Strong). And let's not forget that by Bringing in Gilbert/Maddox/Traylor this year, that Strong's ability to understand, predict, and defend against these offenses will likely make a much needed evolution of it's own.
3. So for anyone looking forward to working through some of the Xs and Os and trying to form their own perspective to both anticipate, and evaluate, what might be coming, here are some links:
Regarding the Briles-derivative offense in general:
http://www.footballstudyhall.com/20...all-art-briles-lache-seastrunk-spread-offense
http://grantland.com/features/chris...offense-made-baylor-national-title-contender/
http://smartfootball.com/spread/goo...ith-baylor-hc-art-briles#sthash.1xv3U6XO.dpbs
https://www.reddit.com/r/footballstrategy/comments/2tcwvl/offensive_breakdowns_baylor/
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/117431/coaches-name-baylors-briles-best-for-offense
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...t-briles-baylor-iowa-state-cyclones/16144921/
http://www.wsj.com/articles/baylor-...llege-football-is-also-the-laziest-1447358072
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-fo...oleman-art-briles-alabama-michigan-ohio-state
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...h-russell-shock-linwood-run-offense/73311858/
Regarding the "power run from spread" concepts in general:
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/c...-oregon-ducks-urban-meyer-tom-herman-offense/
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/02/not-all-spreads-are-alike
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/01/why-spread-it-is-all-about-arithmetic
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2012/03/installing-an-offense-urban-meyer-edition
http://smartfootball.com/gameplanni...about-successful-offense#sthash.GCuZvdws.dpbs (Very interesting piece of "spread to run installation").
http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/06/urban-meyer-q-on-his-offense.html
