Extra Points: Next Man Up

Posted Feb 16, 2015
One of Gene Chizik’s former bosses, Texas head coach Mack Brown, said a month ago that one element of the Chizik dossier he liked was that Chizik’s schemes were in essence quite simple but that he worked in enough slight-of-hand and had sufficient moving pieces to keep the offense off-balance. Chizik says that’s by design and the goal is to not over-think and get into paralysis-by-analysis mode. (GoHeels.com)

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