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The Big 12 releases the preseason media poll

July 17, 2020 by ianaboyd

I voted this year, or at least I think I did, one of my offensive or defensive ballots (defense I think) wasn’t submitted in time. I posted my teams and poll as well as the rationales over at Inside Texas. You can read it free here: My preseason poll shook out like this tweet: That’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Big 12 football, Iowa State Cyclones, Kansas State Wildcats, Preseason All-Big 12 2020, Preseason Big 12 media poll 2020, TCU Horned Frogs, West Virginia Mountaineers

Aranda transfers the Baylor defense

July 8, 2020 by ianaboyd

The 2019 Baylor Bear defense that carried the team to the Big 12 championship game and nearly defeated Oklahoma only to fall short twice, was built around the defensive line. The back eight of their 3-2-6 unit was very good (mostly seniors), but this team could regularly control action in the run game and generate … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 3-2-6 dime, Baylor Bears, Bravvion Roy, Dave Aranda, Dillon Doyle, Flyover D, James Lockhart, James Lynch, Matt Rhule, Terrel Bernard, William Bradley-King, zone blitz

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

Baylor’s history with the power run game

March 27, 2020 by ianaboyd

Over on Twitter I recently had a brief conversation with Travis Roeder and Cameron Soran about new Baylor offensive coordinator Larry Fedora’s fondness for power run schemes. I think this is the tweet that kickstarted the convo about his power run game. Baylor has been uniquely power run oriented since their rise under Art Briles. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Art Briles, Baylor Bears, D-gap power, Dave Aranda, duo, GT Counter, Larry Fedora, LSU Tigers, Matt Rhule, Power run game, Revenant offense, Smashmouth spread, Tight zone

Overlooked figures of 2020: Matt Jones and Kalon Barnes

March 26, 2020 by ianaboyd

One of the more fascinating subplots of 2020 in the Big 12 was always going to be what Baylor made of one of Matt Rhule’s favorite young talents, Matt Jones. The 6-3, 240 pound freshman played in three games last year early before shutting it down to redshirt and preserve eligibility for the future. He’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Dave Aranda, Kalon Barnes, LSU Tigers, Matt Jones, Quarters coverage, Read-blitz, tite front, Wisconsin Badgers

Breaking down 2020 space force enlistment: The Lone Star private schools, TCU and Baylor

March 3, 2020 by ianaboyd

It’s more than a little interesting to observe the TCU-Baylor rivalry these days. The Frogs aren’t even really a strictly Texas school anymore, their admission is over 50% comprised of out of state students, and the football program has served them well as an advertisement for kids from California and other locales. Baylor on the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Recruiting Tagged: 2-4-5, 4-2-5, Baylor Bears, Big 12 recruiting, Dave Aranda, Gary Patterson, Joe Wickline, Larry Fedora, Peso defense, Smashmouth spread, Space force, Space force cadets, Space-force enlistment, TCU Horned Frogs

A new Baylor decade

January 24, 2020 by ianaboyd

You could argue that Baylor was the story of the 2010s in the Big 12. Oklahoma obviously dominated most of the decade, winning 6.5 Big 12 titles, making four playoff appearances, and putting up the following record against the rest of the league: A completely inability to deal with Oklahoma was truly the primary obstacle … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: #RhuleofLaw, Art Briles, Baylor Bears, Big 12 championship game, Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma Sooners, Texas Longhorns

Dave Aranda to Baylor

January 16, 2020 by ianaboyd

I’d never have guessed that this was going to be a major topic in the Big 12, not even in the week or so after Matt Rhule left for Carolina, not until his name was explicitly mentioned for the Baylor job. For starters, Dave Aranda has never necessarily seemed to be a future HC kind … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Dave Aranda, DC graveyard, Mack Rhoades, MAD defense, zone blitz

Contrar-Ian NFL takes

January 8, 2020 by ianaboyd

I’m really starting to enjoy the NFL. For the last several years I’ve had limited attention to give to the NFL between my college football writing commitments, another role I have in life in my local Church that eats up time on Sundays, my family commitments, and then also the NFL’s constantly negative press they … [Read more…]

Posted in: NFL Tagged: Baylor Bears, Bill Belichik, Carolina Panthers, Lamar Jackson, Matt Rhule, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans
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