Eli Drinkwitz comments on how Mizzou gains an advantage in scouting vs. USC
By Ethan Stone
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Eli Drinkwitz is looking for an advantage wherever he can get it.
His 20th ranked Tigers take on South Carolina this week, fresh off an ugly loss to Florida. And on Wednesday at the SEC’s weekly teleconference, Drinkwitz was asked to describe how he goes about scouting and making a competitive advantage for the Tigers.
His answer, in short, was that the Tigers are reading everything. From that point, they weigh likelihood to get the best product they can on the field.
We’ll let him explain his process:
“We’re trying to scout every single advantage that we can possibly have in order to win the football game,” Drinkwitz said. “So if a payer is tipping something specifically within — when I think about it, offensive linemen, 3-point stance versus a 2-point stance, heavy weight on their 3-point stance can usually indicate run. A deeper in-step for an offensive lineman can sometimes indicate pass. None of those things are revolutionary, it’s just a matter of whether or not those things are something that you look at.”
He continued…
“I mean there’s always formation tells and tendencies and usually we make sure that a tendency is percentages above the 85% mark before we make a game-time or game-plan adjustment for it. Because within certainty, you feel like maybe 85% is worth the risk to try to be game-plan specific with that tendency. I hadn’t heard any of that. That’s kind of news to me with regards to signals, I have no idea what you’re talking about with that part, but there is always the game within the game of trying to see. Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin talked about knowing when one was run or pass based on how they would align. So I think that’s been going on in football since its inception.”
Ethan Stone is a Tennessee graduate and loves all things college football and college basketball. Firm believer in fouling while up 3.
