I studied Iowa State’s 2017 run game pretty carefully this past week for a post over at Football Study Hall on whether it can propel them up yet another level in 2018. Iowa State is a “smashmouth spread” in every sense of the word, using pass concepts that create vertical stress and running them off … [Read more…]
It’s that time of the year again, when I break down every recruiting class in the Big 12. Last year’s effort was probably my most comprehensive yet, we’ll have to see whether I have the juice to do a similarly sweeping review this year. For whatever reason I like to do these from North to … [Read more…]
One of the big early stories of Big 12 spring practice is that Iowa State’s Joel Lanning is going to get some work in at linebacker this spring. You can check out the story with quotes from Matt Campbell here and tucked away at the end of the article is this additional note: Redshirt freshman defensive … [Read more…]
This was the first full class for new head coach Matt Campbell and a good glimpse at whether he’s aiming to make Iowa State “the midwestern program” of the Big 12 and how he plans to get after the rest of the league. The class includes 12 midwestern kids of the 24 signed and then … [Read more…]
Our examination of the Big 12 2017 units continues with the 6-10th place finishers from 2016. The second biggest question with this back half is whether one of these teams can climb up and out of the bottom half and the biggest question is whether that will be Tom Herman’s Texas squad. Here we go… … [Read more…]