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Baylor’s multiple 4-3 D

April 4, 2018 by ianaboyd 10 Comments

With the season and recruiting classes firmly in the rearview mirror I was keen to check in on something I didn’t devote much time to previously, the status of the #RhuleofLaw defense. I studied Temple fairly intensively last offseason partly because they were an interesting team that won a fascinating league and partly because Baylor … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: #RhuleofLaw, 4-3 defense, 4-3 Over, 4-3 Under, Baylor Bears, Blake Lynch, Joe Paterno, Matt Rhule, zone blitz

Breaking down the Big 12’s 2018 recruiting classes

April 2, 2018 by ianaboyd 1 Comment

I don’t know that I want to try and rank them all again. Last year I developed a system for weighting the grades I handed out and then added it all up. This year I think I’m done with that. It’s fun content and makes for good debate but I’m not sure how valuable it … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Recruiting Tagged: 2018 Big 12 recruiting, Baylor Bears, Iowa State Cyclones, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech Red Raiders, West Virginia Mountaineers

Breaking down Baylor’s 2018 recruiting class

April 2, 2018 by ianaboyd 22 Comments

The average pundit said that Matt Rhule was going to struggle to recruit Texas replacing Art Briles and coming in to a program that had just endured a PR nightmare but that he’d be able to win early by utilizing Briles’ players. I had a very different sense of things, I was never terribly worried … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Recruiting Tagged: #BFast, #RhuleofLaw, 4-3 defense, Baylor Bears, Big 12 recruiting, Matt Rhule, Multiple, Outside zone

A glossary of modern defensive formations, pt III

February 9, 2018 by ianaboyd 6 Comments

This should be our final piece to this puzzle and then I’ll begin to move on to the always popular Big 12 class breakdowns. In part I we focused on the ways in which teams still run 3-4 and 4-3 base defenses in the spread era today. These are increasingly less common because of how … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, General college football Tagged: #RhuleofLaw, 3-2-6 dime, 3-3-5, 3-4 nickel, 4-1-6, Baylor Bears, Katy Tigers, Oklahoma Sooners, San Diego State Aztecs, Texas Longhorns, West Virginia Mountaineers

My 2017 All-Big 12 team

December 5, 2017 by ianaboyd 10 Comments

I just got a look at the coach’s selections for the All-B12 team, it was pretty solid. I mean they list like six DL or something silly like that to make sure that everyone who had a standout season is recognized which is reasonable. The main purpose of a list like that is to give … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: All-Big 12 team, Baylor Bears, Big 12 football, Darren Sproles water bug trophy for most outstanding tiny person, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech Red Raiders, West Virginia Mountaineers

The year of the QB in the Big 12 is over, who’s next?

November 28, 2017 by ianaboyd 2 Comments

The 2017 season featured the most returning talent at QB in the Big 12 since perhaps 2008 and now this crop is moving on, making way for a cast of young signal-callers some of which got their starts in 2017. Last year I broke down the contrasting styles of Charlie Brewer and Shawn Robinson about … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Charlie Brewer, Sam Ehlinger, Shawn Robinson, Skylar Thompson, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Longhorns

Impressions from week one in the Big 12

September 5, 2017 by ianaboyd 20 Comments

Texas isn’t back but pre-Briles Baylor is! That’s probably harsh, I’ve been saying all along that Matt Rhule would likely take his lumps in year one while working to achieve the macro-level culture change and roster reconstruction necessary to win “his way.” I did think that they’d handle Liberty without difficulty but looking back it … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Texas Longhorns

Meanwhile, just outside of Texas

September 5, 2017 by ianaboyd 2 Comments

LSU shut the freaking door on BYU’s defense this last weekend while fielding a defense of Houston kids. I broke down how they mixed an old school 4-3 Under defense with a 2-4-5 nickel sub-package to wreak havoc on BYU’s pro-stylings on offense over at Saturday Down South. I think their “confuse and clobber” offense … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, SEC football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Houston metroplex, LSU Tigers, Texas A&M Fighting Aggies, Texas Longhorns

5 most interesting breakout candidates in the Big 12

September 2, 2017 by ianaboyd 3 Comments

Most interesting to me, at least. I think these guys are high upside athletes that could be about to breakout and consequently have a huge impact on this coming season. Let’s begin… No. 5: Blake Lynch, Baylor I was surprised when Blake Lynch was absolutely nowhere on Baylor’s depth chart. At 6-3, 205 he’s a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Alex Barnes, Baylor Bears, Blake Lynch, Kansas State Wildcats, Kyzir White, Malik Jefferson, Mark Andrews, Oklahoma Sooners, Texas Longhorns, West Virginia Mountaineers

Quick notes on some week 1 depth charts

August 30, 2017 by ianaboyd 2 Comments

I have an archive of every Big 12 team (and 50 or so other programs) depth charts over the last few seasons. I update them throughout the offseason and can now also look back at my own recruiting evals for those teams to see what I made of various depth chart climbers when they were … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Kansas State Wildcats, Oklahoma Sooners
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