Over at Football Study Hall. An interesting feature of the Gophers under Fleck, besides the fact that they’ll be running a smashmouth spread with huge OL and tight ends, is Robb Smith’s Under defense. You don’t see a ton of Under in the Big 12 and I’m curious to see how his defense works this … [Read more…]
My man Bill Connelly (@SBN_BillC) has made it to the upper tiers of the 2017 Big 10 in his annual preview of every single team in college football. If you don’t track this series every year I don’t really know what’s wrong with you because it’s a fantastic, ongoing stat-based historical of every team in … [Read more…]
Over at Inside Texas I broke down Texas’ new challenge in finding 4i-technique defensive ends that can anchor their new 3-4 defense under Todd Orlando. The 4i is a developmental position, you want guys with length and size to play the position since they have to grapple with offensive tackles but that style also requires … [Read more…]
It’d been maybe a month or two since I chuckled at the fact that Oklahoma ran Brent Venables out of town to make room for “cautious Mike” Stoops. This article was a good outlet for that energy as I ranked the top 5 DCs in college football today. Aranda is the sole representative of the … [Read more…]
The Buckeyes had to replace a lot of NFL talent on defense last year…and they did it by plugging in even more NFL talent. Uncanny, Urban Meyer is clearly one of the best recruiters/evaluators in the business. Over at SB Nation I broke down some of how they’re able to maintain continuity and success on … [Read more…]
At SB Nation I previewed how Michigan will rebuild a defense that’s losing nine starters. I don’t know how shocking this will be for everyone but I think they’ll probably still be elite even despite losing so much. The up and coming DL is going to be fantastic, new DE starters Rashan Gary (former 247 … [Read more…]
I’ve got a few bits coming on Kevin Wilson and Ohio State. This piece focuses on the balance he might bring to the Ohio State attack while another article for Athlon will tackle what has been going wrong at Ohio State on offense over the last few years and how Wilson will approach those issues. … [Read more…]
I took a stab at answering this question over at Football Study Hall and suggested that his football IQ and acceleration could allow him to grow into a Troy Polamalu-like figure down the road. You’ll notice in the article that I mentioned Ohio State’s defensive shortcoming in needing corner-caliber coverage guys at field safety to … [Read more…]
It seems the Spartans are completely falling apart, right on schedule.
Over at Football Study Hall I talk about new Wisconsin DC Jim Leonhard, a former walk-on and 3x All-B1G safety who then had a nice run in the NFL working with Rex Ryan. It stands to reason that Wisconsin would eventually be coordinated by a former walk-on since they have a few of them starting … [Read more…]