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Month: July 2019

Gary Patterson’s defensive spycraft

July 30, 2019 by ianaboyd 5 Comments

Gary Patterson is a nut when it comes to scouting opponents, I’ve heard from multiple offensive coaches at B12 media days that game planning for Gary Patterson’s defense is one of the toughest challenges in the league. Naturally, his defense is designed to be flexible within the constraints of playing four-down, base personnel. Here’s the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 4-2-5 Quarters defense, Big 12 defense, college-style offense, Gary Patterson, RPO spread revolution, TCU Horned Frogs

Gary Patterson and counterintelligence

July 29, 2019 by ianaboyd 6 Comments

One very small subplot to this offseason has been the degree of change that’s coming to TCU’s offensive strategy in 2019. Gary Patterson had a presser in the spring in which he noted that they were “changing some things in their passing game” and that new WR coach Malcolm Kelly had been helpful towards this … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: counterintelligence, Gary Patterson, spycraft, TCU Horned Frogs, Veer and Shoot

Game theory and the spread offense

July 25, 2019 by ianaboyd 8 Comments

Over at Inside Texas I have a piece up I’ve been putting together since Big 12 media days with quotes from Tom Herman and Sam Ehlinger that have illuminated the apparent strategy for the Longhorn offense in 2019. In short, the plan is to put a greater emphasis on RPOs this coming season, giving Ehlinger … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Big 12 defense, Game theory, HUNH spread, Iowa State Cyclones, pass-first offense, RPO spread revolution, RPOs, Sam Ehlinger, Texas Longhorns

Tebow vs Ehlinger

July 23, 2019 by ianaboyd Leave a Comment

Over on Twitter I built a long thread filled with GIFs from Tim Tebow’s 2008 campaign where the Gators won the SEC and national championships. Here’s where it begins: It’s really something to behold the Gator O creating time for Tebow and advantages for their receivers every time they run play-action off their counter schemes … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, SEC football Tagged: Florida Gators, RPO spread revolution, Sam Ehlinger, Smashmouth spread, Texas Longhorns, Tim Tebow

Matt Campbell reveals an ace up his sleeve

July 19, 2019 by ianaboyd 11 Comments

I’ve written about the Wisconsin Badgers quite a few times over the last few years. I may mention them again soon to relate the full story of this exchange I had with Gary Patterson: The Badgers also came up in this recent piece where I described which teams derive the greatest strength from monopolizing in-state … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Big 12 defense, Big 12 Media Days, Inverted Tampa-2, Iowa State Cyclones, Matt Campbell, Will McDonald, Wisconsin

Big 12 schemes for 2019: Baylor embraces the 3-down dime D

July 18, 2019 by ianaboyd 6 Comments

Of course the Baylor staff is as well aware of the 2018 defense’s shortcomings as anyone in the media and understand that there’s an opportunity with the 2019 schedule to make another leap as a program if they can solve some of their problems from a year ago. The Bears play seven home games in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: #RhuleofLaw, 3-3-5 Aztec defense, base dime defense, Baylor Bears, Big 12 defense, Matt Rhule

Big 12 schemes for 2019: K-State’s bend don’t break tweaks

July 10, 2019 by ianaboyd Leave a Comment

Klieman’s Wildcats have a few players on defense that could potentially make for an unexpectedly strong group in 2019. This defense was one of the league’s best at the start of the decade with S&P+ top 25 units in 2012 and 2013 and then still another solid group in 2014 that finished 42nd. Then some … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Uncategorized Tagged: Big 12 defense, Chris Klieman, Kansas State Wildcats

The Big 12 media preseason poll results…

July 9, 2019 by ianaboyd 6 Comments

They’ve just been announced. Of course this is all meaningless, aimed to create posts exactly like this one where we rant and rave about the selections and create buzz around the upcoming season. I’m happy to be a part of that, the Big 12 is fun and so is arguing about meaningless and fairly subjective … [Read more…]

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My preseason All-B12 ballot

July 3, 2019 by ianaboyd 43 Comments

Since I’m heading to Big 12 Media Days in a couple of weeks I got to vote in the largely meaningless, preseason All-B12 ballot. They like to hold a vote on the order of finish, there’s a semi-bizarre distribution of positions to vote on, and then OPOY, DPOY, and Newcomer of the year. I almost … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Uncategorized Tagged: 2019 All-Big 12 team, All-Big 12 ballot, Power rankings, Sam Ehlinger

Big 12 schemes for 2019: Iowa State’s flex TE sets

July 1, 2019 by ianaboyd 1 Comment

Matt Campbell has been pretty excited this offseason about four developments within the Iowa State program. First, they have their OL more or less set with all five starters from 2018 returning. The lineup they relied on down the stretch was solid and all returns but they also have potential upside if some of their … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Uncategorized Tagged: 12 personnel, dread-wing, Flex TE, Iowa State Cyclones, Key schemes for 2019, Matt Campbell, Pump fake Purdy

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