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Not really.. Belfry wasn't really getting blown off the ball..
Belfry on defense was getting to the quarterback.. there was just too much
blown coverage.. But you can't expect Chapman & Epling to be able to go up and knock balls down against Clark & others... They just don't have the size..
Belfry was executing what they were supposed to on offense, but Russell knew where it was going to, and getting to & plugging up the holes..

Everyone knows Belfry is going to go with May up the middle most everytime..
Russell ran alot of reverses and no one really knew where the ball was..
Not only that, you never knew when they were going to drop back and throw..
Belfry only started passing when they were down 13-0 late in the game, and was forced to throw to slow the clock down..
But as for the playbooks concerned.. Belfry's is simple, always has been...
Its hasn't changed any since I played....

That is my point. Russell's is just as simple. It hasn't changed since I played and that was in the 1980's. (Dang I'm old) Then and now you could put the entire playbook on one piece of notebook paper.(Front side only)

Both of these teams new exactly what the other was going to do. Haywood and McGlone have faced each other many many times. Not just the last three state semi-finals.

Sometimes simpler is better.