The Rest of College Football

[Wild Hoss]

Not a chance in hell. You couldn't even beat Missouri on your own. But I'll trust you on the hardness of Cooper's dong. You're a Husker, so you'd have better access to information on that.

Missou was more of a challenge than M would've been...they had a QB who could run from our pass rush.

Cooper's dong hardness is just a guess based on watching M struggle, sweat and tussle with Wazzu, like a chubby UP girl. Safe bet on the comparison.

[Jeff Buchanan]

It sure does put our own team in perspective. Michigan still should have won the conference and made the playoff, but Alabama and Clemson are another story. I don't see how we would have competed.

Given the season after Iowa revealed the keys to winning the game, I think Clemson would have beaten M easily based on their play against Alabama.

Against Alabama, JH would have matched Saban's approach producing a low scoring slug fest that Bama would win.

I'm not sure M could have beaten UW given how badly the offense looked in its last several games.

[Wild Hoss]

Jeff,



I'm not a big fan of the WCO...we went through that phase two coaches back. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with it, its just that the game has changed so much around it.

I got a look at Mike Leach's playbook once, and I was amazed by how much Walshian stuff was cribbed into it. He (and more Mumme I suppose) took many of Bill's core passing concepts- ones that we were using versions of ourselves under Callahan- and applied them to 10 personnel formations. They knocked most of the cross-midline reads off the triangles, tossed out most of the run game, and what was left was a formidable ?ball control passing? scheme that was easy to implement and learn. Very effective at the college level.

While our kids where learning ?Tiger 2 Scat Z Short U Banana? Leach was running one record-setting QB after another through his offense, ripping off 80+ plays a game, and flipping through 3x5 notecards on the sideline.

[entropy]

Cooper's dong would have been harder than beating Michigan.

lol..

[entropy]

sometime brilliant football minds can over think things.. like offenses

[Jeff Buchanan]

Thank you. Much appreciated.

[hack]

Good luck with that. We put four ten-year NFL starters out there on the OL. Honestly though, we'll never know for sure. You had a good team, even though you technically lost a game and we did not. We had a great team too, and anyone who watched knew that a one-score lead was enough for that defense.

What we do know is that Michigan played the game on the field. Not the field. Nobody from Michigan shat on Nebraska in a press conference. Everyone involved behaved like grown-ups. Perhaps if Lloyd Carr or Brian Griese sank to those depths things might have been different, but, again, Michigan wins CLEAN. Some of you craven animals here have trouble with that, which is to be expected. How are you going to know the difference?

[entropy]

hack... you had daddy greasy doing it for you on national tv. LOL.

[Wild Hoss]

hack... you had daddy greasy doing it for you on national tv. LOL.

Mr. CLEAN says that doesn't count, LOL.

[Wild Hoss]

sometime brilliant football minds can over think things.. like offenses

IDK if its overthinking so much as being overambitious? I mean, it'd be great to be able to do all the things that Favre's Packers were doing...but with 20 hours a week of practice (For us non CLEAN programs) its a bit of a tall order.

Now today, its evolved further; you take that Mumme/Leach passing game, pare it down even further, and add in ZR, inverted Veer, etc. That gives you a two-back run game from one-back sets. Then your OL can hold like crazy, toss in some picks plays, and away we go.

[hack]

Clip? I'm sure Griese said some nice things about Michigan, but nobody involved with Michigan sunk to the level of Scott Frost. I have a hard time imagining Carr allowing any of his players to crap on another team like people on the Fightin' Phillipses did.

[hack]

You can call me Mr. CLEAN though. Or Mr. Clean. I'm happy to own that.

[entropy]

hoss.. HEH. it's Mr. Clean... as long as you don't talk about basketball. You know, the sport Michigan cares more about than football

[Wild Hoss]

hoss.. HEH. it's Mr. Clean... as long as you don't talk about basketball. You know, the sport Michigan cares more about than football

Now, now, that was only related to basketball. Basketball and football boosters...totally different groups of people. :D

[Wild Hoss]

The impact of the spread on the run game...

There have been 16 seasons where the national average for YPA rushing was over 4.0, since the NCAA first kept track of the statistic in 1938; those seasons are 1954, 1995...and 2002-2015. (2016 stats not compiled yet obviously). This mirrors almost exactly the proliferation of the ZR in the college game, started by the late Randy Walker at Northwestern.

Rushing attempts per game have rebounded in recent years, after falling below 40/G in 1999 for the first time. They fell to a low of 36.7/G in 2008-09 (I discount 2006, the year they had the funky clock rules) but have climbed back up to 39.6 in 2015. Still, these are low Att/G numbers historically, but with record-high YPAs.


2015 saw national records set with 7.3 YPA passing, 411.6 YPG, 5.76YPP, and 29.7 points per game.