Gary Patterson is a nut when it comes to scouting opponents, I’ve heard from multiple offensive coaches at B12 media days that game planning for Gary Patterson’s defense is one of the toughest challenges in the league. Naturally, his defense is designed to be flexible within the constraints of playing four-down, base personnel. Here’s the … [Read more…]
One very small subplot to this offseason has been the degree of change that’s coming to TCU’s offensive strategy in 2019. Gary Patterson had a presser in the spring in which he noted that they were “changing some things in their passing game” and that new WR coach Malcolm Kelly had been helpful towards this … [Read more…]
Over at Inside Texas I have a piece up I’ve been putting together since Big 12 media days with quotes from Tom Herman and Sam Ehlinger that have illuminated the apparent strategy for the Longhorn offense in 2019. In short, the plan is to put a greater emphasis on RPOs this coming season, giving Ehlinger … [Read more…]
Over on Twitter I built a long thread filled with GIFs from Tim Tebow’s 2008 campaign where the Gators won the SEC and national championships. Here’s where it begins: It’s really something to behold the Gator O creating time for Tebow and advantages for their receivers every time they run play-action off their counter schemes … [Read more…]
I’ve written about the Wisconsin Badgers quite a few times over the last few years. I may mention them again soon to relate the full story of this exchange I had with Gary Patterson: The Badgers also came up in this recent piece where I described which teams derive the greatest strength from monopolizing in-state … [Read more…]
Of course the Baylor staff is as well aware of the 2018 defense’s shortcomings as anyone in the media and understand that there’s an opportunity with the 2019 schedule to make another leap as a program if they can solve some of their problems from a year ago. The Bears play seven home games in … [Read more…]
Klieman’s Wildcats have a few players on defense that could potentially make for an unexpectedly strong group in 2019. This defense was one of the league’s best at the start of the decade with S&P+ top 25 units in 2012 and 2013 and then still another solid group in 2014 that finished 42nd. Then some … [Read more…]
They’ve just been announced. Of course this is all meaningless, aimed to create posts exactly like this one where we rant and rave about the selections and create buzz around the upcoming season. I’m happy to be a part of that, the Big 12 is fun and so is arguing about meaningless and fairly subjective … [Read more…]
Since I’m heading to Big 12 Media Days in a couple of weeks I got to vote in the largely meaningless, preseason All-B12 ballot. They like to hold a vote on the order of finish, there’s a semi-bizarre distribution of positions to vote on, and then OPOY, DPOY, and Newcomer of the year. I almost … [Read more…]
Matt Campbell has been pretty excited this offseason about four developments within the Iowa State program. First, they have their OL more or less set with all five starters from 2018 returning. The lineup they relied on down the stretch was solid and all returns but they also have potential upside if some of their … [Read more…]