Rye, We’ve had some decent and respectful conversations and I hope you won’t be offended if I take issue with a few things.
graywolf: I love your excitement and all, but I am not so sure that we improved so drastically as much as we hit the easy part of the schedule. If you pair WF’s defense with UNC’s offense and special teams, then you might have actually had a legitimate Power 5 conference team. That pairing probably would have beaten us, like anyone else with a pulse did all year.
First, what foose said. Second, FSU, Clemson, Louisville and GT are a bit more than teams with a pulse. It could be argued that BC was just another team with a pulse but they did beat USC and do have one of the better running QBs in the country, a very senior OL and a very good coach.
I don’t know if you were just trying to make a point but you are way off the mark calling FSU, Clemson, Louisville and GT teams with a pulse. We got spanked pretty good by CU and GT but not FSU and L’ville. Pure speculation but we likely would have taken L’ville had we run Jacoby like we did vs. EweNC. Why didn’t we? Again pure speculation but I don’t think Doeren wanted the Holes to know about that little wrinkle. IOW he traded an L for a W over the Holes. The man is one of us. He don’t like the Holes anymore than we do.
I’m really hoping we bowl “down” against a team we can look good against.
You may feel that way but if our team and coaches feel that way, I’m outta here. We will never amount to a damn thing. But not to worry. Doeren is not that kind of man. And we likely will not get a top 25 team like any of the above mentioned FSU, Clemson, Louisville and GT.
harder to get a read on with respect to intent.
When a team lines up on the 2 yard line with 2 tight ends, an H back, a FB, a RB and a QB under center, it’s not hard to get a read on intent either.
That Wildcat was atrocious and was a wasted down at best.
Was it any more wasted than the plunges we tried with Shad when we were at the 2 yard line? My comment was somewhat in jest for the reasons below. When we ran it with Shirreff we picked up 3, 4 and 5 yards nearly every time. It wasn’t working as well with the personnel we have in 2014 and we stopped using it. It wasn’t worth the practice time to correct it. Prepare yourself for more frustration as we will likely see it again in 2015. It does give the opps something else to prepare for and it is a +1 set up.
