11. "When's the last time Va Tech had a non ugly looking offense?" In response to Reply # 0
I mean sometimes they score, and they get a lot of talent and put guys in the NFL, but I can't remember a time in the last decade I thought "Man, I really like watching that Va Tech team on offense!"
23. "Hell it wasn't that pretty when Michael was there" In response to Reply # 18
I mean I know this was a bit before the spread option took over and he took them to a title game, but there were times you were like "They should just let #7 run around back there"
12. "UM is a trainwreck. I knew we'd be "bad"" In response to Reply # 0
But I thought we'd have a deceptively good record because our strength of schedule would be even "badder." The coaching is just not getting it done. The D has shown up but that last sequence on offense before the half was BRUTAL.
85. "trainwreck is a bit much" In response to Reply # 12
For only a freshman its obvious Peppers is an irreplaceapble part of the back 7. He gives the D so much flexibility. Plus it seemed like Countess and Lewis built off their mistakes last week.
As far as the offensive game flow however...I dont get it. There's no reason to *ever* take that long to get lined up and snap the ball, much less as the half is winding down.
And I still think Derrick Green is David Underwood reincarnate.
86. "green...curtis grant...Hermitage looking like a 5 star bust factory" In response to Reply # 85 Sun Sep-14-14 03:10 PM by 3xKrazy
>And I still think Derrick Green is David Underwood >reincarnate.
there was a lot of consternation amongst OSU fans when Meyer didn't continue to recruit Green (who was high on Tressel's wish list)...seemed like Meyer had that one nailed.
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17. "Northwestern, Purdue, Illinois, and San Jose State" In response to Reply # 14 Sat Sep-13-14 05:23 PM by DeepAztheRoot
I think you got it, plus Iowa has been far from world beaters and you beat UNL last year, although winning in Lincoln this year should be more difficult
Plus Michigan is hardly a juggernaut, even in Ann Arbor
Big Ten is a mess outside of MSU, who knows what teams shows up from week-to-week
19. "Derek Mason looks absolutely clueless." In response to Reply # 15
I can't believe how bad of a job he's done. I thought he was a good hire at the time.
Today, he played his fourth QB of the year, starting a true freshman and burning his redshirt. He benched him after one series lol. Now his redshirt year has been wasted.
He doesn't know what he's doing and they probably only win three games this year. UK will blow them out.
DeepAztheRoot Member since Dec 19th 2003 13992 posts
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20. "RE: Derek Mason looks absolutely clueless." In response to Reply # 19
Today, he played his fourth QB of the year, starting a true >freshman and burning his redshirt. He benched him after one >series lol. Now his redshirt year has been wasted.
Yikes, what a joke.
There has to some talent, not all of it left with Franklin and the kids in the rape case.
24. "The Big Ten is having another bad day" In response to Reply # 0
Iowa lost to a winless Iowa State.
Indiana lost to Bowling Green.
Maryland lost an entertaining game to WVU.
Minnesota is getting clobbered by TCU.
Illinois is unable to get out of its own way and is going to lose to UW.
I am not a conference pride cheer leader and none of these teams are expected to compete for the conference title but I was kind of surprised at how bad some of these teams looked while losing. It seems like none of them have made any improvement from last season.
We can basically punt any Pac-12 South winning hopes (forget about anything beyond that) if he's out an extended amount of time though I don't think it's anything that'll keep him out long. He might be done for this game though... hopefully we can survive.
39. "Dude we are awful up there" In response to Reply # 38
Sua Filo covered up a multitude of sins up there last year, both being able to pull and being an actual capable backup LT when our tackles inevitable got hurt. And our defensive front 7 ain't looking much better right now.
41. "McCarthy should have gone to Cal haha" In response to Reply # 40
Dude is literally our 4th, maybe 5th best lineman (depending if you count Hollins as a DE or LB). Has some good plays but mostly just slow off the line. Vanderdoes at least gets off blocks even if he's slow off the line. We're totally screwed if Neuheisel has to play extended time though.
If you expected your 5 star DL recruits to be the next Kelly Gregg instead of the next Haloti Ngata. Dude is alright, just not quite living up to expectations.
90. "Only in the most obvious of situations" In response to Reply # 70
Not sure why he didn't see that BC was playing with fire in that night game home atmosphere with the 9/11 tie-in and a D that had to hear all week how bad their run defense was against Pitt seven days prior.
Not sure why they didn't elect to use their big fast wideouts first and work back into the run from there considering SC is at 3rd string there anyway.
They made zero adjustments all game and squandered opportunities to bury them early.
True freshman don't cross country travel well, Sark, how about Nelson Agholar?
Ah well, in the overall scheme it wouldn't be a loss that means all that much if they have a great rest of conference play period then peaking at seasons end with a possible ND, UCLA, Oregon gauntlet.
But games like this make think they've got at least one bad P12 game to lose before that.
81. "he can go to hell" In response to Reply # 64 Sun Sep-14-14 09:55 AM by guru0509
>Jordan Hicks is nasty too this year.
jk, he is a great LB...wish he stayed in state.
i found this excerpt to be hilarious, in hindsight...
"Ranked as a top-20 recruit by Scout.com and Rivals.com and as the No. 1 high school outside linebacker in the nation, Hicks did say that Ohio State coach Jim Tressel and Texas coach Mack Brown recruited him in a similar fashion.
"They have the same values and they preach a lot of the same things to the team that seem very similar," Hicks said.
The uncertainty around Florida coach Urban Meyer - who initially resigned before the Sugar Bowl but instead will take an undetermined, though likely brief, leave of absence - played a major role in taking the Gators out of the running.
"It affected it a lot," Hicks said. "It showed how much more stable Texas was than Florida, and it had a big effect on my decision."
Ohio State offered that same stability, but in the end, Hicks said it was the little things that turned him toward the Longhorns. He grew especially close to defensive coordinator Will Muschamp, who is the coach-in-waiting at Texas and will take over when Brown retires. Muschamp was offered the head job at Tennessee this month and when he turned that down, Hicks said it showed how loyal Muschamp was to Texas."
------------------- I wanna go to where the martyrs went the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...
57. "Charlie Strong is going to get grilled if Texas loses this game" In response to Reply # 0
He basically gave ucla two extra offensive possessions in this game with the coin flip mess up and then after his team got penalized for running into the punter once, they do it again which extends a ucla offensive possession.
71. "That was such a terrible offensive series" In response to Reply # 68
I still think Charlie Strong will be a good coach and he is kind of hand cuffed with poor talent and recruiting misses from Brown but he had some questionable moments tonight.
88. "They had FOUR YARDS before the last drive of the game against a team" In response to Reply # 78
that Pitt gashed for 380 on the ground the week before.
It was one of the most pathetic performances I've ever seen by a Trojan team, it'll get put on the D but they suit 54 players with more on O, BC switched to a jumbo and just started running right at em after SC squandered early chances to be up 24 points or more.
The issue was they couldn't maintain a drive on offense, they seriously didn't put a drive together that lasted more than six plays or more than five minutes of actual time before D was back on the field.
Sark's play calling in this game made Kiffin's look imaginative, they ran on run downs and passed on passing downs. Kept trying to get these little bubble screens rather than get the ball to their outside guys or run uptempo like they did in the Fresno game.
Cody Kessler's numbers look alright but he had no real impact on the game, almost like a Nick Foles for my NFL team.
I would really love to see what Max Browne can do at some point but Sark's gonna say '8 TDs, no picks in three games' so he's not going anywhere anytime soon.
UCLA still looks terrible too btw, look forward to conference play.
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