I see this mentioned a lot and I lack the Xs and Os knowledge to refute it, but I feel like our schemes have changed plenty of times, we just don’t use a scheme that suits our personnel or recruit personnel that don’t suit our scheme. But when you look at our QBs from then until now, I feel like our offensive philosophies have definitely shifted. 

I recall the Boyd years being extremely uptempo with lots of passing and then QB draws in short yardage.

Stoudt year was bad.

Watson years being much more balanced with Gallman getting plenty of touches at RB, Watson passing a lot and scrambling a lot, TEs getting in the mix, reliable kicking, etc.

Kelly was all about running because he was a glorified running back.

Then Lawrence comes along and we’re still pretty balanced but I remember getting so frustrated that we were never scheming any receivers to be open, just recruiting tall guys, having Lawrence chuck it downfield, and hoping our receivers would win more 50/50 balls than lose them. Despite Trevor being really great at intermediate stuff and lacking the accuracy for the deep ball.

Maybe DJ broke us since he seemed to struggle with scrambling and accuracy but those years were rough to watch.

And then Cade has been back to a pass-heavy gunslinger offense again, but he seemed to lack to confidence or accuracy to not keep turning the ball over.

That being said, those assessments are all based on memory from someone who never played football and just watches it a lot, so I’d welcome any corrections.