But it was the Black Knights who controlled the game when they had the ball, stringing together four drives of at least 16 plays each, dominating the possession battle (44:41 to 15:19), frustrating the Oklahoma defense to the tune of 339 yards rushing and 13 third-down conversions, and earning the respect of everyone who successfully found a reliable stream. The Sooners came in with one of the nation's fastest and most potent offenses, directed by a rising star coach in Lincoln Riley, whose brain has been picked relentlessly by NFL scouts after producing a Heisman Trophy winner and a College Football Playoff berth in his first year in charge. In another vestige of a bygone era, last Saturday college football fans scrambled to find a legal or illegal stream for a game that was only available as a pay-per-view, as mighty Oklahoma sweated out an upset bid from Army. вЂњIf it ainвЂ™t broke,вЂќ Dotson says, вЂњdonвЂ™t fix it.вЂќ Schematically, the clock here never needed turning back-it was never moved forward. From afar, Doug Dotson has watched as the tradition his father built plods onward. The Rams won 11 games, advanced to the state semifinals and scored 38 points an outing. Last year, his team racked up 325 rushing yards per game, averaged 13 yards per carry and threw a total of 86 passes. In the last four decades of football here, the Rams have aligned in the shotgun no more than 20 times, says McCullough, a former Acadiana quarterback who is old-school at heart. The Veer is unchanged, having weathered the storm of new-fangled, pass-happy schemes, and now it is flourishing like never before: dominating smaller defenses built for modernized spread schemes, bludgeoning foes with a mystifying wizardry only possible in the triple option and delivering Acadiana four state championships in the last 12 years. The Veer has survived three head coaches, each passing down the offense to his successor, like a familyвЂ™s most precious heirloom. This is the 45th consecutive season in which the WreckinвЂ™ Rams are operating in the same triple option offense that then coach Bill Dotson installed in 1974. вЂњIt is instilled in the community and in the players,вЂќ says Kent Gable, an assistant coach and former player. At Acadiana High School, the Veer is life-and has been for nearly a half century. Here in south Louisiana, that tedium is celebrated, worshipped like a religion, adored like royalty on an antiquated throne. It is footballвЂ™s version of a ham sandwich: enduring and reliable, but tedious and tiresome. I was a fan though and loved them just the same as now.The Veer is the opposite of fancy. There was plenty of talent on the roster, but the Smith's were to cheap to keep or add to it, and Glanville was too much of an idiot redneck to keep the team in check and the players focused.

They also lost games often when they went to the prevent D. The penalties usually did them in, and they were usually stupid penalties. More than this generation can say in terms of playoff success. They beat the saints in the playoffs at their place. They weren't the most talented bunch but they played with passion, and other teams did not want to play them because they hit hard and swarmed to the ball. It also featured safteys that could tackle, and an undersized dline that could stop the run when it needed to, and special teams that could change the momentum of the game. The Glanville, run & shoot team had a real o line that could run and pass block, and a defense wasn't afraid to roll the dice.

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