The Colorado Buffaloes are installing a new system aiming to unleash wide receivers this fall. But they used Saturday’s huge recruit weekend to highlight the incoming “Go-Go” offense to wideout prospects wearing the “recruiting visitor” lanyard.
Three-star target Marquis Fennell of Valdosta, Georgia, is one of the wideouts coach Deion Sanders and his staff are trying to lure in. Fennell pulled back the curtain on his Boulder trip with Lorenzo Reyna of Colorado Buffaloes on SI.
Receiver Recruit Marquis Fennell Impressed by Colorado Buffaloes’ New Attack
Former NFL wide receiver and Tulsa standout Brennan Marion is installing the new scheme. The offense is known to be “vertical and violent,” which creates more one-on-one matchups for the offensive playmakers. The “Go-Go” especially benefits wideouts as it forces safeties to bite on the play action and gets receivers to blow the top off coverages, getting Fennell to rave about its potential.
“The Go-Go is a great offense that gets the player makers the ball. And you can believe that as Coach Marion played receiver at the highest level, it’s only right,” Fennell told Colorado Buffaloes on SI. “He does like to use two-running back packages as well. But they mess up the personnel packages for the opposing team.”…