FSU Football: How ‘Noles offense can learn from Mixed Martial Arts
By Kelvin Hunt
Gulf Coast Offense
The Gulf Coast Offense (GCO) is based on establishing the run game and historically Willie Taggart has ran the ball about 60% of the time since morphing his philosophy into this offense.
He also includes vertical attacks in the passing game once teams overcommit to stopping the run.
Now, one good thing I’ve noticed is FSU has been much more balanced in 2018. However, it’s happened more by necessity than want to because of the offensive line woes and Deondre Francois’s inability to run the read option correctly.
The offense has been incredibly balanced with a slight lean to the pass, likely because the Noles have been behind in games coupled with the inability to run the ball.
So I know you’re asking how does the Gulf Coast Offense and MMA become tied together?
Well, one of my biggest concerns going into the season was what would happen in games if FSU were unable to run the ball? All the losses Willie Taggart suffered at Oregon were due to the inability to establish the run.
The other thing is whenever they got behind they rarely had the capability to overcome those deficits.