Bo Schembechler’s Football Strategy: Run vs. Pass Dilemma

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00:00In hockey, whatever, they dump the puck in, they shoot the puck, it could hit the post,

00:06it could be a, you know, this, it could be a blocked shot.

00:09Yeah, there's, you know, a couple of dozen different things that can happen, right?

00:14Football, whatever.

00:15You drop back, you know, like Bo Schembecker, the late, great Bo Schembecker, former Michigan

00:19guru coach said, you know, there's three things that can happen when you have the football

00:26and two of them are bad.

00:27So let's run the football.

00:28See?

00:30That's something that Nick Sariani should be taught.

00:33Like Bo Schembecker did not like throwing the football.

00:37The legendary Michigan Wolverine coach.

00:40You know, he was old school.

00:41He was like, nah, let's run the ball, shoot a clock up.

00:44And he was asked once, Bo, why do you hate throwing the football so much?

00:49And he said, because if you throw the football, three things can happen.

00:53It could be incomplete, it could be an interception, or it could be a completion.

00:57And he goes, two out of three things that can happen are bad.

01:01So I would rather just run the ball.

01:04Coach Sariani, there it is.

01:07Like all the talk that we've heard and all the armchair quarterbacking and game day decision

01:12making, criticisms, I think I just said it best right there.

01:17I think that's the best take of the day.

01:19Bo Schembecker said it best.

01:21You throw the football, three things can happen and two of them are bad.

01:25I think Nick Sariani across the football game last night.