Folks, one of my favorite football cliches is, “running is a mentality.” The saying goes, you can’t decide halfway through a game to run the ball. You need to decide during camp that you’re going to run the ball, and then you need to take concrete steps towards that goal every day. It’s a toughness thing, a patience thing, and a chemistry thing.
I love it because I believe it. It may be bull honkey, but you tell me right now that Oklahoma in the ‘80s, Colorado and Nebraska in the ‘90s, and Alabama in the 2010s didn’t line up every snap trying to break their opponent’s will.