“Everything will be changed with the offense. You have to change things when you lose somebody like that.”
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“Those guys are so darned creative and sophisticated it is very hard to pick up those hand signals and steal those, especially at the tempo they are going with,” Stoops said. “But the operation of the offense, the tendencies and the substitution pattern, you can learn a lot from somebody who has been on the staff.
“You watch an up-tempo team, and they run certain plays toward their bench so they can substitute much faster. There are certain areas of the field where they can do things to their advantage. If you know that, it helps.”
Bo Wallace, the Mississippi quarterback, was on spring break when he learned Siskey was leaving for Alabama. Wallace said that there was no traditional playbook for the Rebels’ no-huddle offense but that they “wouldn’t have let him get out of the office with it if there was.”
Wallace added, “We’re still working on changing things.”
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“You look at it as just another challenge,” Freeze said. “Certainly it’s not something we wanted to happen, but we’ve got to move on, and we can’t use that as a woe-is-me type mentality. We have to make adjustments and move on. That’s what coaching is about anyway.
“I needed to change things anyway. It pushed me to go ahead and do it.”
