(01-10-2017, 08:02 PM)winflop link Wrote:Â Happened most recently in the Sun Bowl on 3rd & goal from the 1-foot line, so I think it's safe to say that Shaw hasn't learned this yet.
As Goose pointed out, that was a fascinating (if overly fancy) play.
The presnap shift completely flumoxed UNC. In the video link below, pause around 1:17:42 or so. Just as the ball is snapped, Stanford had six blockers on the left side to four defenders for UNC (or 7 on 5 if you include the center and the nose). A simply dive play to the strong side would have been about as easy a TD as you can get.
However, Stanford apparently had intended for UNC to react properly to the shift, or even over-react to the shift, and ran a play to the weakside, where UNC had four/five defenders to Stanford's two/three blockers.
It would seem that play would have to have a contingency for the QB to audible towards a strong-side run under those circumstances, but it didn't happen.
Of course a simple repeat of the second down play probably would have scored a TD as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDaEUekg1C0#t=1h17m27s
If the time stamp doesn't work, the third down play starts about 1:17:27 in.