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Some people don't believe in the book, but my takeaways from "The Innovator's Dilemma" guide my thinking on innovation in competitive environments.  If you don't evolve, and stay the same, you risk being surpassed by others who are open to new ideas.

Hasn't this coaching staff by now shown that they're willing to evolve? You can argue that it came too late, but I can see why Shaw was hesitant. The offense basically worked against USC, we just had an extremely unfortunate series of essentially unrelated disasters. I think if we switch the Army and USC games we probably beat USC by 2 scores just from the extra time to get the kinks out. And the loss to ND was against a top-10 team, on the road, and we nearly won. After the WSU game where we moved the ball well enough, how clear was it that we had a problem with the base offense and not a simple execution issue?

It seems obvious from our end, because we've been complaining about the offense for over a year now, but I can see why the staff would think, up to that point, that it was basically okay. It took a complete disaster of a game to really prove that the basic approach needed some rework, and they immediately did it. My suspicion is that, going forward into future seasons, the look we saw against Oregon State will be something that the coaching staff is willing to pull out when they think it will work.

[stupac2]

Some people don't believe in the book, but my takeaways from "The Innovator's Dilemma" guide my thinking on innovation in competitive environments.  If you don't evolve, and stay the same, you risk being surpassed by others who are open to new ideas.

Hasn't this coaching staff by now shown that they're willing to evolve? You can argue that it came too late, but I can see why Shaw was hesitant. The offense basically worked against USC, we just had an extremely unfortunate series of essentially unrelated disasters. I think if we switch the Army and USC games we probably beat USC by 2 scores just from the extra time to get the kinks out. And the loss to ND was against a top-10 team, on the road, and we nearly won. After the WSU game where we moved the ball well enough, how clear was it that we had a problem with the base offense and not a simple execution issue?

It seems obvious from our end, because we've been complaining about the offense for over a year now, but I can see why the staff would think, up to that point, that it was basically okay. It took a complete disaster of a game to really prove that the basic approach needed some rework, and they immediately did it. My suspicion is that, going forward into future seasons, the look we saw against Oregon State will be something that the coaching staff is willing to pull out when they think it will work.