Did any of you guys play football? I am not trying to be a dick, I am truly asking.
Coaches run a particular scheme. They go to camps and conferences, exchange ideas, go to college teaching sessions all to hone the particular scheme they want to run. They all come from coaching trees. They learn it from a guy, tweak it a little, and pass it on to another guy. That's how it goes. Coaches don't really make wholesale changes to what they do. So when you hire a coach like Herman, he is going to come in here and run what he learned from Urban Meyer, damn be all if we have the tools to do it or not.
Steve runs what he has studied and crafted for the last 20 years. He isn't going to all the sudden turn into Briles, just like Briles isn't going to all the sudden turn into Gus Malzahn. That said, nothing Steve is calling is exotic. I have said this before, but it's the sequence in which he calls that people like him for. He runs on you until you commit, once you start flying up out come the RPOs, once you start trying to jump those, he goes over your head. He understands where the numbers are and does a good job exploiting them. However, if your line is blowing assignments left and right the whole "where the numbers are" thing is a mute point. We literally couldn't run on a 3 man line, which meant RPOs weren't going to work, because if they are sitting in 8 man coverages running slants into the teeth of it is a death sentence. You also are going to struggle going over the top of a cover 3 with 3 men dropping deep.
All Steve needs is a competent O line, Bijan will take care of the rest. They don't need to maul people, just give him a few seems and he will find them. Once that happens if we have decent QBing we are going to make hay. That running play we are all making fun of was one center went the wrong way from being good. If Majors remembers he has to block the DT Bijan is turning the corner with Junior leading and only one LB to beat between them. I like our chances there. A couple of those and Arkansas starts creeping. Now we have them where we want them.