I posted this a couple of days ago as a comment in a thread, but it got buried pretty quickly, so now that I can post diaries I thought I'd post it again.

I wanted to look at the breakdown of Rich Rodriguez's previous offenses, and in particular the main QB's run-pass balance and the fraction of runs by the QB.  I'm only looking at RR in Div 1A (so Tulane OC, Clemson OC, WVU and Michigan), and I'm skipping the mess that was the 2008 offense.  Data comes from the year-end statbooks for each team.

Here is the overall production chart.  QB is the main QB (from what I could tell) - in 1999 Brandon Streeter got a lot of playing time (mostly passing), and in 2001 Rasheed Marshall got a decent amout of playing time.

Team Production:

Year	Team	QB	Pass Plays	Pass Yards	Rush Plays	Rush Yards	Total Plays	Total Offense
1997	Tulane	Shaun King	366	2608	425	2012	791	4620
1998	Tulane	Shaun King	375	3615	520	2483	895	6098
1999	Clemson	Woody Dantzler	423	3019	497	1812	920	4831
2000	Clemson	Woody Dantzler	296	2311	557	2600	853	4911
2001	West Virginia	Brad Lewis	357	1811	475	1992	832	3803
2002	West Virginia	Rasheed Marshall	279	1753	714	3687	993	5440
2003	West Virginia	Rasheed Marshall	252	2034	600	2762	852	4796
2004	West Virginia	Rasheed Marshall	259	1993	590	3034	849	5027
2005	West Virginia	Pat White	193	1398	625	3269	818	4667
2006	West Virginia	Pat White	233	2059	590	3939	823	5998
2007	West Virginia	Pat White	265	2067	628	3864	893	5931
2009	Michigan	Tate Forcier	329	2380	494	2234	823	4614
2010	Michigan	Denard Robinson	119	1203	228	1622	347	2825
2010 Proj	Michigan	Denard Robinson	285.6	2887.2	547.2	3892.8	832.8	6780

QB Production:

Year	Team	QB	QB Pass	QB Pass Yards	QB Rushes	QB Rush Yards	QB Total Offense
1997	Tulane	Shaun King	363	2577	124	511	3088
1998	Tulane	Shaun King	364	3495	156	633	4128
1999	Clemson	Woody Dantzler	201	1506	146	588	2094
2000	Clemson	Woody Dantzler	212	1691	172	947	2638
2001	West Virginia	Brad Lewis	237	1339	54	41	1380
2002	West Virginia	Rasheed Marshall	259	1616	173	666	2282
2003	West Virginia	Rasheed Marshall	215	1729	101	303	2032
2004	West Virginia	Rasheed Marshall	171	1426	130	684	2110
2005	West Virginia	Pat White	114	828	131	952	1780
2006	West Virginia	Pat White	179	1655	165	1219	2874
2007	West Virginia	Pat White	216	1724	197	1335	3059
2009	Michigan	Tate Forcier	281	2050	118	240	2290
2010	Michigan	Denard Robinson	96	1008	98	905	1913
2010 Proj	Michigan	Denard Robinson	230.4	2419.2	235.2	2172	4591.2

Denard has already had more passing yards and almost as many rushing yards as 2005-era Pat White.  If he averages just over 100 yards passing per game for the rest of the season he'll have more passing yards than any of RR's QBs other than Shaun King.  If he kept on his current pace (unlikely), he'd end up with almost as many yards as 1997-era Shaun King.  If he averages just over 60 yards rushing per game for the rest of the season he'll have more rushing yards than 2007 era Pat White.  For total offense he would need to average just over 160 yards per game to best Pat White's best season, and just over 315 to match Shaun King.  At this point it looks like Denard is the best all-around QB Rodriguez has had to date: almost as good a passer as King and as good/better a runner as Pat White.

Next I want to look at the breakdown of plays and yards between run and pass, and in particular the QB's share of production.

Year	Team	QB	% Rush Plays	% Rush Yards	% of Runs by QB	% of Rush Yards by QB	% of Total Plays by QB	% of Total Offense by QB	QB % Rush Plays	QB % Rush Yards
1997	Tulane	Shaun King	54%	44%	29%	25%	62%	67%	25%	17%
1998	Tulane	Shaun King	58%	41%	30%	25%	58%	68%	30%	15%
1999	Clemson	Woody Dantzler	54%	38%	29%	32%	38%	43%	42%	28%
2000	Clemson	Woody Dantzler	65%	53%	31%	36%	45%	54%	45%	36%
2001	West Virginia	Brad Lewis	57%	52%	11%	2%	35%	36%	19%	3%
2002	West Virginia	Rasheed Marshall	72%	68%	24%	18%	44%	42%	40%	29%
2003	West Virginia	Rasheed Marshall	70%	58%	17%	11%	37%	42%	32%	15%
2004	West Virginia	Rasheed Marshall	69%	60%	22%	23%	35%	42%	43%	32%
2005	West Virginia	Pat White	76%	70%	21%	29%	30%	38%	53%	53%
2006	West Virginia	Pat White	72%	66%	28%	31%	42%	48%	48%	42%
2007	West Virginia	Pat White	70%	65%	31%	35%	46%	52%	48%	44%
		Low	54%	38%	11%	2%	30%	36%	19%	3%
		Median	69%	58%	28%	25%	42%	43%	42%	29%
		High	76%	70%	31%	36%	62%	68%	53%	53%
2009	Michigan	Tate Forcier	60%	48%	24%	11%	48%	50%	30%	10%
2010	Michigan	Denard Robinson	66%	57%	43%	56%	56%	68%	51%	47%
2010 Proj	Michigan	Denard Robinson	66%	57%	43%	56%	56%	68%	51%	47%

The first two data columns are the percent of all plays and all yards that come from all runs.   The third and fourth are the percent of all runs and rush yards that come from the QB.  The fifth and sixth are the percent of all plays and all yards that come from the QB.  The seventh and eight are the percent of the QB's total plays and yards that come from his runs.

RR has historically varied a fair amount in how much of his offense comes from running the ball - this year we're about average for what he's done in the past, and less run-oriented than for example 2005 West Virginia.  However, our rush offense is by far the most QB-based of any previous offense, far outstripping the one-man show of 2000 Woody Dantzler, and 2007 Pat White.  If we look at total offense, this year's team is more QB-focused than any of the Clemson or WVU teams, but actually on par with the Tulane teams.  Looking at Denard's run-pass balance he's actually right around Pat White's typical split, though he is certainly more run-focused in his production than any of RR's other quarterbacks.

This is just a high-level overview.  I can't break down the kinds of running or passing plays RR is using from this data.  The offense certainly feels very different than the Pat White-era WVU teams in formation and play style, and the YouTube highlights of Woody Dantzler I've seen have the QB iso type feel that we're seeing a lot from this year's team.  I think the main message is that even within his system RR will adapt his style, both at a high level and at the formation/play level, to match his talent - which is what he should do.