The '96-97 team is up there.
There's others that still had great seasons but lost early in the tourney which tarnishes it.
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The '96-97 team is up there.
There's others that still had great seasons but lost early in the tourney which tarnishes it.
I'm thinking of becoming a premium member next season to hear/read Jay's takes. His used to be the best.
I think there's a significant gap between the people on where things became an issue.
Some people have had issues with the scheme, playcalling, and putting the ball in the endzone since 2019. Others didn't have an issue until last year. Some didnt until now.
We're working off of people who have 4 years of patience vs 2 vs 1. People's patience js going to be everywhere
Ben did a good job of laying it out. And the issue is....everything. It's just everything. Not one guy, not one thing, it's just everything. One play you miss a block, next play bad pass, next play a drop, next play is a poorly designed, next play somebody isn't in the right spot, then somebody misses timing, then you get a penalty, then a bad snap. And it all adds up to a lot of punts.
And honestly that is the worrisome part, it isn't one or two things that you can fix. It's just really unorganized and not sharp no matter how you look at it.
And honestly that is the worrisome part, it isn't one or two things that you can fix. It's just really unorganized and not sharp no matter how you look at it.
I clearly said that it was by far the best season based on expectations.
The dumb frog said it was our second best season ever and it was not.
Yeeeeeeaaaaaah in that case id probably disagree unless only postseason matters to someone, which is a bad way to look at sports. Top 5 or 10 pretty easy. Top 2 is a tough sell for me
I see the whole mess as an identity issue. Campbell wants to run the ball and we aren't able to with the current offense. Throwing the ball 57 times is the opposite of running the ball (no kidding) so that is the identity issue. Are we a running team or a throwing team? Right now neither with any success.
If you aren't going to run the QB and you want to be a running team, you SHOULDN'T be in shotgun all the time!!! It's really not that difficult to understand.
If you aren't going to run the QB and you want to be a running team, you SHOULDN'T be in shotgun all the time!!! It's really not that difficult to understand.
I suppose context and tone are everything. I don’t like being critical of the team.
However, I remember when Jim Walden rolled out the triple option and somehow reduced the offense to no flexibility at all in a scheme that’s supposed to give you flexibility. Perhaps he just didn’t care anymore it’s funny how much he changed in his approach from 89-92.
I’ll try to spell out context a bit more then time permits.
I have listened to Ben, but have not read the whole thread, but while we have a lot of problems, the OL coaching needs to change. Too bad Ben makes too much money up in Appleton to come coach the OL.
And he specifically says at the end to draw your own conclusions, as he won't provide any.
I don't think it even takes much reading in between the lines to come up with a conclusion.
I think we were all expecting something along the lines of 11-15 wins with a few surprises in Hilton. Also expecting Otz would need a few years to build a foundation since there was not even rubble left over.
20 wins or better and a Sweet 16 is always top-level success even when the surprises in Hilton weren't the kind anyone was hoping for in a season. Again, there was not even rubble left over so I can understand lacking offensive firepower down the stretch in conference play.
Second best season of all, I'd say the 2013-2014 season. For some reason the 1985-1986 season will always be very special since that was the first Sweet 16 and there were so many landmarks in that season. I still love Grayer, Hornacek, Virgil, Hill, Thompkins, Robinson, Moss, and the whole team. Pounding Iowa decisively in Hilton was incredible that year.
I just need a Gene Chizik or a Fred Hoiberg mention in this thread and I'll have a bingo.
Had Gene Chizik stayed 5 more years and not left he would have had a legacy 7/8ths as great as Fred Hoiberg but in football. Had Fred had 1/2 the playing career and had left 3 years sooner, he would have had 5/8ths the legacy Gene Chizek would have had with the fulfillment of additional 5 full years. Combining the two only reaches 5/16ths of Campbell in only year 3.5.
This looks like the math in the other thread with Hawk fans breaking down the Big 12 school payouts on the new media deal.
Forgot Planes on Treadmills, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Gilmore Girls.
Pretty scathing analysis on the offensive line, and some formatting issues again.
You bet it was, and I listened to this.
One comment from Bruns was especially intriguing regarding the use of our H back Jared Rus against OSU (and all season).
He said when we plod Jared Rus from one side of the line and then motion him to the other side it always brings the safety on D from that side from pass coverage pre snap - to inside the box pre snap sensing a run to that side.
Predictable crap like this kills our running game. It is window dressing that doesn't help - and worse than that, it actually helps the D coordinator on the other side showing them what we are about to do.
With TE - why not use Tyler Moore more often or even an Easton Dean. Even if they can't bang in the block game like Rus at least they are a THREAT to go down the field and catch a pass.
Just shows the offense is as bad as our defense is good. Heacock is a wizard at disguising what we are doing. Manning is horrible at getting creative in the run game and other teams just know what he is going to do.
One more point - the shotgun handoff up the middle cannot be our go to run play when it rarely works. I am just sick of it. If you have a subpar line we cannot be predictable.
