The old “Mack Brown wanted prospect X as a safety” meme is pretty much dead and gone now that Texas is on their second post-Mack coach, but the ultimate example of Mack’s QB eval problems just went no. 1 in the NFL draft. Back in the day before that meme got going things were chugging … [Read more…]
Last night I went on the “Phil in the Cap” podcast to talk Texas, Oklahoma, and Big 12 football in 2018. Included in there are some nuggets on the upcoming Texas season, my theories on how OU could face a steep fall this season by dying a “death from a thousand paper cuts,” and my … [Read more…]
I studied Iowa State’s 2017 run game pretty carefully this past week for a post over at Football Study Hall on whether it can propel them up yet another level in 2018. Iowa State is a “smashmouth spread” in every sense of the word, using pass concepts that create vertical stress and running them off … [Read more…]
…decides to play baseball? I broke down some of the OU spring game, first with an eye towards the play of the QBs Austin Kendall and Kyler Murray. I used some of my observations there in this recent post at SB Nation exploring the possibility that his baseball potential could pull him away from Norman … [Read more…]
One of the very difficult things about prognosticating in the Big 12 is how close the mid-level teams are to one another. This decade has typically included 3 teams at the top that were safely better than most of the league (generally OU plus 1-2 other squads) and then a wide morass of mid-level teams … [Read more…]
Over at SB Nation I did some deep diving on Rudolph’s performance in the Ok State offense last year and how prepared he might be for the NFL. Oklahoma State’s offense is really kinda similar at this point to “pro-style” offenses like USC but there’s a major difference in where the Cowboys put their emphasis. … [Read more…]
Oklahoma Oklahoma had their spring game this last weekend and Allen Kenney of blatant homerism had some interesting notes up on it. Ironically, his thoughts are more objective and less homerish than what you sometimes get from pay sites where people have financial incentive to give you news you like paying for. I didn’t catch … [Read more…]
Over at Football Study Hall I explain why the QB run game at K-State isn’t going away and how it forms the underpinning of the passing game. Too often you read criticisms from K-State fans that seem to think that the success they have here and there in the passing game can be divorced from … [Read more…]
I recently got this excellent question from a reader named Cole about the reality of “pro-style” systems in college and which programs actually prepare offensive players for the NFL: Mr Boyd, I was hoping you could tell me, in your opinion, which colleges are currently running a pro-style offense? I enjoy reading your football analysis. … [Read more…]
The 2017 Kansas State vs Oklahoma game was a really impressive contest between what I’m now delineating as a “spread-option” team and a “spread-Iso” team. I may have to further adjust those terms but the idea is that OU will create multiple stress points with their scheme and then “send it where you ain’t.” K-State … [Read more…]