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Month: May 2020

Who’s entering the Big 12 through the transfer portal?

May 29, 2020 by ianaboyd

Accepting transfers has become one of the most important ways that coaches can improve the talent level on their teams these days. It’s really sort of a win-win for everyone as every program tends to get log jammed at some positions and then thin at others and the transfer portal allows for an evening out. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Recruiting Tagged: Big 12, Transfer portal, Types of transfers

What are Florida’s chances in 2020? Part III: Pro-spread and the power run game

May 26, 2020 by ianaboyd

In part II the other day, I broached the same topic I’ve mentioned when I was explaining the theoretical advantage of the “bash bros” against the “Raid bros” in the Big 12. That didn’t work out so great, because it turns out that having easy answers for 3rd and 1 isn’t as valuable as being … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, SEC football Tagged: Baker Mayfield, bash bro, Belldozer, Dan Mullen, Emory Jones, Feliepe Franks, Florida Gators, Hurts the relentless, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow, Kyle Pitts, Kyle Trask, Kyler Murray, LSU Tigers, Pro-spread, Raid bro, Sam Ehlinger, Space force, Space force dreadnought

What are Florida’s chances in 2020? Part II: Florida shotgun spreads, past and present

May 25, 2020 by ianaboyd

Before Urban Meyer’s run or the less successful eras of Will Muschamp and Jim McElwain, the original breakthrough Florida Gator teams were the Steve Spurrier squads of the 90s. Those squads won six SEC titles and a National Championship in 1996. Those Gator teams come up tangentially in my book… …his 95 team went to … [Read more…]

Posted in: SEC football Tagged: 1996 Florida Gators, Bob Stoops, Dan Mullen, Florida Gators, Fun n gun, Kyle Pitts, Pro-spread, Shotgun Spread, Space force, Space force dreadnought, Steve Spurrier, Unbalanced formations

What are Florida’s chances in 2020? Part I: The Floridian hurdle

May 22, 2020 by ianaboyd

Not the state, who’s approach to the COVID pandemic under Gov. DeSantis was one that had a sizable chunk of citizens and commentators projecting disaster up until recently. I mean the football program coached by Dan Mullen that is returning their quarterback, four starters on the offensive line, and star “space force dreadnought” Kyle Pitts … [Read more…]

Posted in: SEC football, Texas HS Football Tagged: 2001 Miami Hurricanes, 2008 Florida Gators, 2013 Florida State Seminoles, Dan Mullen, Demographics=destiny, Florida, Florida Gators, Georgia, Georgia Bulldogs, Kirby Smart, Kyle Pitts, Kyle Trask, Manvel Mavericks, Pro-spread, Texas, Texas HS recruiting, Texas Longhorns, Tom Herman

Breaking down the strategy in “Miracle”

May 20, 2020 by ianaboyd

The “miracle on ice” was one of the greatest achievements in American sports history. If you’re unfamiliar with the event, an American amateur hockey team of mostly college upperclassmen and recent graduates won the gold medal in ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics in New York. The Soviet hockey team they defeated at Lake … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Theoretical ramblings Tagged: "Miracle", 1980 US national hockey team, 2008 Texas Longhorns, Colt McCoy, Herb Brooks, HUNH spread, Kurt Russell, Lake Placid, Miracle, Miracle on Ice, Soviet national hockey team, Texas Longhorns, The Captain Class

Contrar-Ian’s guide to recruiting rankings

May 19, 2020 by ianaboyd

If you’ve read this blog regularly, you’ll notice that I have an uneven relationship with the service rankings of players and teams. In one post I’ll come strongly against the idea that the class rankings are predictive or should be taken particularly seriously, in the next I’ll use 247’s data even to the point of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Air Raid, Boise State Broncos, Garrett Wilson, Johnny Football, Johnny Manziel, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Space force, Space force cadets, Space force dreadnought, Space-force enlistment, Texas A&M Aggies, Texas Longhorns

Contrasting Texas high school strategies

May 15, 2020 by ianaboyd

Over at Inside Texas I broke down a playoff game between a couple of Texan quarterbacks of great interest to Longhorn fans, Southlake Carroll’s Quinn Ewers and Duncanville’s Ja’Quinden Jackson. It took a long time to break down that film so I’ll have nuggets I pull from there for a while to come. A tidbit … [Read more…]

Posted in: Texas HS Football Tagged: Blake Smith, DFW metroplex, Duncanville Panthers, Jalen Hurts, North Dallas, Pro-spread, Quinn Ewers, Roderick Daniels, South Dallas, Southlake Carroll, Suburban ball

What was the best Big 12 defense of the 2010s? Part II, winning Ds

May 14, 2020 by ianaboyd

In the last post I went over the top 10 Big 12 defenses of the 2010s based on scoring defense within league play. That gave us the following list: I like the 2017 TCU Horned Frogs, 2010 Nebraska Cornhuskers, and 2017 Iowa State Cyclones from that list for their performance and/or innovative impact on the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 3-3-5, 4-2-5, 4-2-5 Quarters defense, Art Briles, Baylor Bears, Big 12 defense, Bill Young, Charlie Strong, Glenn Spencer, inverted Tampa 2, Iowa State Cyclones, Kansas State Wildcats, Lincoln Riley, Mike Gundy, MOD quarters, Oklahoma State Cowboys, press-quarters, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Longhorns, West Virginia Mountaineers

What was the best Big 12 defense of the 2010s?

May 12, 2020 by ianaboyd

Recently I was talking Oklahoma defensive back recruiting and schematic future under Alex Grinch with Sooners Wire’s Kegan Reneau. It was sparked by this post I did on what Oklahoma and Texas will be attempting to do philosophically to stop all the potent passing attacks the Big 12 will feature in 2020. Reneau asked me … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 3-2-6 dime, 3-down, 4-1-6, base dime defense, Baylor Bears, Big 12 defense, Bo Pellini, Brent Venables, Eric Striker, Gary Patterson, inverted Tampa 2, Iowa State Cyclones, Jon Heacock, Kansas State Wildcats, Mike Stoops, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Oklahoma Sooners, TCU Horned Frogs, Tony Jefferson

The Zach Evans saga comes to the Big 12

May 11, 2020 by ianaboyd

Zach Evans was a character in a story told here over a year ago about North Shore’s victory over Duncanville in the 2018 Texas 6A state championship. D-Ville played a 4-1-6 dime defense and mostly shut down Evans only to be torched by 4-star, Auburn-bound? quarterback Dametrius Davis throwing to 4-star, Texas A&M recruit Shadrach … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Daimarqua Foster, Darwin Barlow, Gary Patterson, Jerry Kill, TCU Horned Frogs, Zach Evans
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