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Breaking down 2020 space force enlistment: Les Miles’ Kansas Jayhawks

February 25, 2020 by ianaboyd

The other day I explained my “space force enlistment” metric in my last post but I’ll summarize the gist of it. Controlling the middle of the field comes down to feel, team cohesion, strategy, experience, and toughness moreso than pure athleticism. A squad of well picked and developed 3-stars can lock down the middle of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Recruiting Tagged: Armaj Adams-Reed, Bryce Cabeldue, Kansas Jayhawks, Lawrence Arnold, Left tackle, Les Miles, Space cadets, Space force, Space-force enlistment

Who won week 10 in the Big 12?

November 4, 2019 by ianaboyd

Week 10 was destined to be one of little consequence for this season in the Big 12 unless disaster befell some team or another. I guess there were some disastrous events for the TCU Horned Frogs, but they weren’t a team of much consequence for this season save for as a potential spoiler, a role … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: 4-2-5 defense, Chuba Hubbard, Dillon Stoner, Gary Patterson, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, Max Duggan, Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Spencer Sanders, TCU Horned Frogs, Zone-read

Who won week 8 in the Big 12?

October 21, 2019 by ianaboyd

I may have to take back some of my comments about Les Miles’ errors in pulling the scholarship from Jax “the destroyer” Dineen. There’s two arguments in favor of Miles’ decision that have made it an apparently justifiable move. The first is that by accepting the transfer of his own son, Ben Miles, as a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: #RhuleofLaw, Baylor Bears, Brent Dearmon, Gary Patterson, Kansas Jayhawks, Les Miles, Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Pooka Williams, Spencer Sanders, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Longhorns, The RPO spread revolution

Who won week 2 in the Big 12?

September 9, 2019 by ianaboyd

Week 2 didn’t have a ton going on across the Big 12 and what good matchups there were largely went sideways for the conference. In a major reversal of years of tradition, LSU came into DKR and put on a clinic for modern spread passing offense. I’ve really only seen a handful of Big 12 … [Read more…]

Posted in: ACC football, Big 12 football Tagged: Clemson Tigers, Flyover football, HUNH spread, Inverted Tampa-2, Jimbo Fisher, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, LSU Tigers, Texas A&M Aggies, Texas Longhorns

Dime is officially base defense in the Big 12

August 27, 2019 by ianaboyd

Nickel became the standard “base defense” for the Big 12 sometime around the turn of the decade. Honestly I haven’t done the research to pinpoint the exact year but Texas went base nickel in 2008, Oklahoma State was starting Shaun Lewis as their “star” LB in 2010, and of course Oklahoma rolled in nickel as … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football Tagged: base dime defense, Baylor Bears, Big 12 defense, Flyover football, Inverted Tampa-2, 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

Will the Mad Hatter be a bash bro or hybrid bro?

November 20, 2018 by ianaboyd

This is probably a positive development overall, it makes Kansas more interesting and it pairs the chance for positive change in Lawrence with the presence of a young star player that might actually make a difference. This is subtly a nasty play design from the Jayhawks, they’re running a stretch play to the same side … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: bash bro, hybrid bro, Kansas Jayhawks, Les Miles, Mad Hatter, Pooka Williams, Raid bro

Scattershooting the B12 heading into week 12

November 15, 2018 by ianaboyd

Week 11 was fun, Oklahoma State came within a missed extra point or converted two point conversion of beating Oklahoma and then Texas Tech raced back from a 34-17 deficit to force a game-winning drive from Texas. The RRS rematch is still in play. Here’s Max Olson’s helpful breakdown of the B12 from here: I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: Big 12 championship game, Big 12 football, Iowa State Cyclones, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma Sooners, Pump fake Purdy, Texas Longhorns, West Virginia Mountaineers

The Big 12 and the NFL draft

May 7, 2018 by ianaboyd

If you haven’t heard from fans of other conferences, the Big 12 hasn’t been doing so well in the NFL draft of late. This was a big story in 2017 when only one player (Pat Mahomes, Texas Tech) was drafted from the conference into the first round. I figured that the league would rebound strongly … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, General college football Tagged: Baylor Bears, Big 12 recruiting, Blue chips, Iowa State Cyclones, Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, NFL Draft, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, TCU Horned Frogs, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech Red Raiders, West Virginia Mountaineers

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 Kansas’ 2018 recruiting class

March 1, 2018 by ianaboyd

The terminal stages of the Charlie Weis era at Kansas were marked by the 2013 recruiting class, which featured 35 signed players of which 20 were JUCOs. The brazen over signing was made possible by the fact that he was just taking flyers on kids all over the place with the understanding that many of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Big 12 football, Recruiting Tagged: Big 12 recruiting, Charlie Weis, David Beaty, Decided schematic advantage, Here come the JUCOs!, JUCO infusion, Kansas Jayhawks, NSD 2018
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