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  • I'm terrified of the day that somebody like rutgers or Minnesota decides to adopt the triple option. if you're one of those guys, you've got nothing to lose.

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    • I've read it's a tough transition on players and coaches who aren't fully immersed in it. IOW you can't just shift gears to the triple-option. It's much easier to run spready offenses that feature some power mixed in with a passing game that is executed by a QB who is fully immersed in that scheme.

      Army and Navy, OTH, have been doing it for decades and it fits the athletes they recruit. I suspect that coaching stability at both USMA and the Naval Academy is also really good. It would take Rutgers years to transition players and coaches and fans and the guys paying the bills wouldn't go for it.
      Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.

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      • Originally posted by Hannibal View Post
        I'm terrified of the day that somebody like rutgers or Minnesota decides to adopt the triple option. if you're one of those guys, you've got nothing to lose.
        Yep. Your D-line will limp for weeks after a game.
        "The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln

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        • I don't like cut blocking any more than you do AA, but its legal if its done in the free blocking zone. Army and Navy have made their living running that style of offense with the cut blocking for many years now, and many games. Nobody in the NCAA has stepped up to say what they do is illegal. So, onward they go. I think all blocking at the knees or below should be eliminated, but that's just me.
          "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, .. I'd worn them for weeks, and they needed the air"

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          • I never said anything bad about cut blocks except maybe I hate seeing my team playing against a cut blocking team.

            I played HS ball. We cut block more than we straight blocked. Also, as you may remember, Bryant ran the wishbone for about a decade. We were some cut blocking sons of bitches. I used to lmao at the opposing team’s d-line limping off the field at the end of the game.

            One day they will make it illegal. That day is not today, though.
            "The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln

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            • One day they will make it illegal. That day is not today, though.
              I agree. Its long overdue. It needs to be illegal at all levels of football, from the NFL down to the pee-wee levels of Pop Warner. Get rid of it.

              Now, I don't think a block at the waist or hip should be eliminated. But direct shots at the knees needs to go.
              "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, .. I'd worn them for weeks, and they needed the air"

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              • I agree with that. The only thing that concerns me are the refs. Interior linemen end up low or on the ground on the LOS on just about every running play. To the over zealous ref, cut blocks (even when it’s really not a true cut) could be an easily abused flag pull.
                "The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln

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                • Originally posted by Hannibal View Post
                  Is MTSU vs. Amy the fist I-A vs. I-A game?

                  I wonder how the Michigan athletes feel that Army an MTSU get to play and they don't.
                  No. South Alabama v Southern Miss was...
                  Shut the fuck up Donny!

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                  • Both TCU and Baylor have their first games (this weekend) postponed due to too many covid cases. In the first case it was TCU that had all the positive tests — in the latter Louisiana Tech, Baylor’s opponent, was the guilty party.

                    Forde points out CUSA is really struggling. Rice has postponed its first two games and hasn’t even held a practice. Old Dominion canceled their season entirely. Southern Miss fires their coach after 1 game and MTSU looked like shit.

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                    • I predict the collapse of CFB mostly outside the P5. Most of the smaller programs relative to the P5 struggle to keep their programs alive when things are normal. WIthout the pay-days of serving as scrimmages for the P5 programs, well, most of them, they can't survive. Even the non-rev sports are going to take a hit. It's awful that the continued reaction to the pandemic is destroying smaller athletic programs that are sometimes life-lines to higher education for a lot of high-schoolers. This is just another in the long list of destroyed social and economic sectors from the unwarranted hand-wringing over COVID.
                      Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.

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                      • Here's one conference that I won't be watching...

                        https://www.outkick.com/big-12-unvei...s-on-uniforms/

                        BIG 12 UNVEILS SOCIAL JUSTICE CAMPAIGN, PLAYERS TO WEAR MESSAGES ON UNIFORMS

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                        • In this time of reduced crowds, revenue, etc why the fuck do they do things to make it worse? Fucking idiots. Know your market.

                          Dumb as NASCAR...
                          Shut the fuck up Donny!

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                          • Originally posted by THE_WIZARD_ View Post
                            In this time of reduced crowds, revenue, etc why the fuck do they do things to make it worse? Fucking idiots. Know your market.

                            Dumb as NASCAR...
                            You ever heard the parable about the scorpion and the frog?

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                            • Originally posted by Hannibal View Post

                              You ever heard the parable about the scorpion and the frog?
                              I was thinking the same thing not long ago
                              "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, .. I'd worn them for weeks, and they needed the air"

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                              • Very astute analogy.
                                Shut the fuck up Donny!

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