Yahoo Sports: Deconstructing: Cam Newton, Denard Robinson and the age of the 'omniback'
One of college football's greatest pleasures is seeing the subtle ways strategies evolve from year to year, and week to week. It's fascinating to watch Bobby Petrino gash Nick Saban's defense with subtle variations of concepts he honed at Louisville, only to see Saban counter with second-half adjustments originally developed to combat the Warren Moon-led run-and-shoot attack of the Houston Oilers in the 1980s and early nineties, when Saban was the defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns under Bill Belichick. But these are schematic squabbles between guys of pro origin: A play-action pass here, a dropback there, a well placed ...