Noel Mazzone isn't a great OC, he isn't the most innovative offensive mind in the game, but if you want to know what a competent offensive coordinator looks like, then look no further than him. He's schemed UVA and Tenuta perfectly today.
Coming out with a true freshman QB, all the world thinks UCLA will rely on it's veteran OL and all-PAC12 RB to let the young guy settle in. Instead, he comes out slinging close to 25 times in the first half, including a first play bomb that should have been a TD.
In the second half, he turns to the run game, catches the D unprepared, and draws up a perfect smashmouth TD drive. Next goal line opportunity, he brings back out the same smashmouth package with Myles Jack, gets the entire D to bite, and goes misdirection to the friggin' D-lineman who's "just in to block" for a TD pass.
Everything designed against expectations. Great cat and mouse gameplan. Kudos to Mazzone. We have no such intelligence in the playcaller's box.
Coming out with a true freshman QB, all the world thinks UCLA will rely on it's veteran OL and all-PAC12 RB to let the young guy settle in. Instead, he comes out slinging close to 25 times in the first half, including a first play bomb that should have been a TD.
In the second half, he turns to the run game, catches the D unprepared, and draws up a perfect smashmouth TD drive. Next goal line opportunity, he brings back out the same smashmouth package with Myles Jack, gets the entire D to bite, and goes misdirection to the friggin' D-lineman who's "just in to block" for a TD pass.
Everything designed against expectations. Great cat and mouse gameplan. Kudos to Mazzone. We have no such intelligence in the playcaller's box.
