I skipped ahead to knock out my review of the Longhorn class over at Inside Texas. It’s free so you can read the full breakdown just like all my other classes, it’s just hosted by Inside Texas where I do my Longhorn work. Something I didn’t fit into that review is that like Matt Campbell … [Read more…]
It’s kind of remarkable that Kansas State is recruiting as well as they are right now given olcow much of an unknown it is whether or not Bill Snyder will be still coaching from year to year. However, they keep getting young and younger as a staff as the old man replaces retiring or departing … [Read more…]
My observation from doing these Big 12 class breakdowns for four years or so is that Dana Holgorsen tends to load up on skill athletes, take a suspect number of bigs, and then select QBs that don’t seem to necessarily match the style of offense he inevitably runs in a given season. Maybe that’s confirmation … [Read more…]
It’s that time of the year again, when I break down every recruiting class in the Big 12. Last year’s effort was probably my most comprehensive yet, we’ll have to see whether I have the juice to do a similarly sweeping review this year. For whatever reason I like to do these from North to … [Read more…]
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…]
My main intention with this series was to dive into the differences between varying types of 4-2-5, 3-3-5, and 3-2-6 defensive formations but I hit 1500 words in a hurry explaining how teams will still play true 4-3 and 3-4 structures against the spread so I decided to split this into multiple parts. Today we’ll … [Read more…]
So I was watching some more Texas high school football recently. I was doing some breakdowns of 2018 Texas Longhorn commits and trying to find full games so I could eval guys off more than the traits they reveal in limited HUDL highlights. You may find that you are wrong about which guys will translate … [Read more…]
Over at SB Nation I have some thoughts up on Chip Kelly’s return to the college game, which has been timed with Philly winning the Super Bowl while embracing many of his tactics and ideas. Pro-style offenses these days tend to use RPOs, because why not read a defender on a running play for an … [Read more…]
My assumption about Oklahoma State this coming season was that they’d recover from losing Mason Rudolph and James Washington just fine since those two have been starting for three years now, giving OSU plenty of time to develop back-ups. The WR situation this past year year was insane for OSU because in addition to returning … [Read more…]
Earlier this week I noted that three strong Big 12 teams are facing a crossroad this offseason on defense. First there’s Oklahoma, who just blew a chance at a national title due to undisciplined and frankly soft play on defense this past season. Then there was Oklahoma State, who just hired Jim Knowles to update … [Read more…]