https://fortheblogy.com/ftb-spotlight-new-penn-state-oc-andy-kotelnickis-pre-snap-shifts-and-motions/

See Link. For all the stuff we and other sites have done, THIS is going to be the most noticeable difference in Penn State's offense this year -- not the whacky plays, triple option, sugar huddles, etc. Kansas ran more pre-snap shifts and motions than any team in the FBS in 2023, so we dove into all Kotelnicki does before the play starts. Yurcich motioned a good amount, but Kotelnicki is at another level as far as frequency and DEPTH (if that's the right word) when using pre-snap movement -- like, there are stages or layers to his shifts and motions.

Couple notes we couldn't fit in the video:
1. All the shifts and motion made Kansas one of the slowest teams in college football from a plays per minute standpoint. This will feel like a Ciarrocca/Moorhead offense as far as pace, compared to Yurcich's meep meep offense at Okla State..which honestly, I'm fine with. Felt like Yurcich's up-tempo no-huddle stuff was a flop for the most part here, especially when he got caught trying to hurry up with odd personnel groupings.
2. As our guy says, Year 1 is where you see the biggest statistical benefit when comparing plays with motion vs. plays where the offense aligns and doesn't move. As Big 12 DCs got more accustomed to all this pre-snap craziness, the statistical gap between motion-no motion shrunk in 2022 and 2023.
3. We touched on it one play, but Kotelnicki loves to disguise his personnel groupings by sticking players in odd alignments - WRs in the backfield - then shiftinginto, say, an empty set to create advantageous coverage matchups.
PS - Codutti is back in a month.