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Month: April 2018

Experience in the secondary

April 5, 2018 by ianaboyd

Over at Inside Texas I was describing the great riches of experience and talent in the Longhorn secondary returning next season ($) and included some research I did on B12 secondaries over the last five years. What I found was that the defenses that have ranked in the top 40 per S&P+ in the Big … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Big 12 football, Boo Radley, dime package, Gary Patterson, nickel package

Baylor’s multiple 4-3 D

April 4, 2018 by ianaboyd

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

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

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
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