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…]
I wrote about the move from the 4-3 to the 4-2-5 over at Football Study Hall. There will be lots of people who describe this as being a move to a “TCU-style of defense” but don’t be fooled by the 4-2-5 language. This is actually a move away from what TCU does and more towards … [Read more…]
The first big domino to drop this offseason for the Big 12 was Oklahoma State firing longtime defensive coach Glenn Spencer. Mike Gundy is always tweaking his approach and looking to find ways to create an edge for his team and Spencer’s record as DC since taking over for the deposed Bill Young wasn’t holding … [Read more…]
Tom Osborne was the head coach at Nebraska for 25 years, the OC for four years before that, and an assistant for four more years before that. Almost the entirety of the Nebraska Cornhusker football tradition and legacy is built off what he instituted and oversaw there. People today know Nebraska for their dominant run … [Read more…]
I would venture a guess that most people watching the Texas 5A D1 state title game between Highland Park and Manvel were rooting for Manvel. The Houston-area program is a perennial contender that’s always filled with exciting athletes with offers from top schools like Texas or A&M and this particular team was a diverse and … [Read more…]
Before the 2017 season kicked off I had a post discussing Mike Gundy’s Oklahoma State as a program with a keen mind for creative solutions to what’s basically the “scarcity problem” applied to college football. The problems facing OSU in 2017 were pretty substantial. They’d made considerable investment into that season, convincing the Mason Rudolph-to-James … [Read more…]
Specifically the 6A D1 matchup between the Lake Travis Cavaliers and the Allen Eagles. I believe this was the first time these two teams have met, in the playoffs or otherwise, although they represent two of the biggest powers in Texas HS football these days. They were competing in the bigger bracket tournament of Texas … [Read more…]
I speculated around this point over at SB Nation. It’s obviously very difficult to know the answer, just as it’s hard to really know whether one of the better Boise, TCU, or Utah teams of the past that went undefeated might have been able to win a playoff. The committee is designed to give everyone … [Read more…]