My concern would be his knowledge of hand signals and audible calls. It could be that those are adjusted each week anyways so as to throw off the film watchers, so maybe that’s not a big deal. As for offensive tendencies, routes, blocking schemes, etc., you’re right, they have film for that stuff.

As for his choosing ASU… Probably this move was about Pflu getting playing time or feeling that he should be a starter. Or, maybe, there were some sour grapes about his father not being retained by Kelly. You can’t say that isn’t a plausible possibility. If Aaron is a likely starter for ASU, what does this say about their receiving corp? Not much, in my opinion. Pflu might be a productive receiver, but he’s not going to put the fear of God into any defensive coordinators.

but so does any transfer.

i also think that precisely what makes c.kelly a success (so far) is that he analyzes each game matchup and even each down and reinvents/adjusts/schemes very effectively. he’s either analyzing 24-7 or he’s just got a great sense of things, or both. i’m hoping he’s still able to do that on individual plays while standing on the field instead of in the box, but i’m confident he’ll still be watching film himself, he’ll still be aware of what pflu knows (or any other transfer, or opposing coach for that matter), and he’ll outsmart a good percentage of the time. has so far, anyway.

defense may be a different story, pflu (or any transfer) knows that too, and i don’t see allioti as the same innovator/adjuster. but then again, doesn’t everybody know how to make yards against us? step 1: in general pass, don’t run, even if you have steven jackson. step 2: make those passes play action and/or in the flats, and allow your receivers and TE’s to go from there. not much of a secret we’re going to throw guys in the box and end up in the upper half of the pac-10 for rushing defense, lower half of nation for passing defense… or higher if the secondary turn out to be all-americans, such as: chris oldham, herman o’berry, chad cota, alex moden… ah, early/mid 90’s duck pass defense, i miss you. side note of course, but can anybody remember that shit? those 4 guys were actual 1st team all americans, from the UO secondary, ‘89, ’94,’94,’95, and there were other studs as well, eric castle, etc… all sent to the same island our new guys are on.

in the end transfers happen all the time, our coaches just have to be smarter, and this appears to be kelly’s strong suit (so far).

in the case of asu alone, i’d say our talent is clearly better, and venture that our coaches are better as well.

Penn State

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