Over at Football Study Hall I wrote a column explaining the formula that Dana Holgorsen has been honing for making the West Virginia Mountaineers competitive in the Big 12. The big thing is this…with Will Grier and his arm strength executing their RPO game alongside this Wickline-taught OL and RB Justin Crawford, this might be … [Read more…]
I broke down the Texas OL for Inside Texas this week, focusing on their performance run blocking against the stiffer fronts of the Big 12 last season. Texas is returning OT Connor Williams, a likely first rounder in 2018, and also junior guards Patrick Vahe and Jake McMillon and sophomore center Zach Shackelford. They crushed … [Read more…]
Then 2016 happened. The Sooners will need to get back to their old standards of jumping routes and dominating games with their defensive backs in order to win the Big 12 in 2017.
The Buckeyes had to replace a lot of NFL talent on defense last year…and they did it by plugging in even more NFL talent. Uncanny, Urban Meyer is clearly one of the best recruiters/evaluators in the business. Over at SB Nation I broke down some of how they’re able to maintain continuity and success on … [Read more…]
Over at Inside Texas I took the time to find a full Cam Rising game on youtube, broke down his performance in it, and then did a thorough writeup on what I saw from the 4-star signal-caller. Rising was an OU-commit and it looked like Texas had settled on 3-star Oklahoman Casey Thompson with perhaps … [Read more…]
So…I broke down the Texas spring game with careful attention to detail. You can read it at Inside Texas here. Because I’m a Texas fan and alum, no matter how critical I am of the program or the team, any time I suggest that they’ll be very good in some facet people tend to write … [Read more…]
I don’t think most pundits or fans have fully grokked how good the Big 12 might be in 2017. This has almost always been a QB-driven league, at least since Mike Leach transformed it by bringing the Air Raid and Texas HS football became a frontier for spread tactics. There have been some seasons where the Big … [Read more…]
I talked to Allen Kenny of Blatant Homerism about Sooner football last night, now available for listen here. We talked about OU’s place on the spring development curve, trying to field big athletes on defense in a spread league, and a little bit about my own Texas Longhorns. It was fun for me, hopefully a fun … [Read more…]
Later tonight I’m going to go on the Blatant Homerism podcast to talk the Sooner spring game with Allen Kenney but I figured I would offer some notes here. I’ll also do some notes on any other B12 spring games I can get my hands on over the next few weeks. Even Texas Tech…I guess. … [Read more…]
So word on the street is that Oklahoma is looking to play more four-down fronts next season and also that Caleb Kelly is likely to maintain his job as a starting outside LB opposite Obo Okoronkwo. It seems from Bobby’s comments on the matter that he feels that four-down allows Oklahoma a better shot at … [Read more…]