Wow, nothing in the scrimmage today?
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Everybody must have been at Owen Field watching Stoops get beat by every good team he faces.
All kidding aside Notre Dame is very good and will be for the foreseeable future. Power running game, stud defense. A lot better than watching that dink & dunk nonsense we run that never works vs top teams.
All kidding aside Notre Dame is very good and will be for the foreseeable future. Power running game, stud defense. A lot better than watching that dink & dunk nonsense we run that never works vs top teams.
And your boy Capel is on the very end of the Duke bench burping subs. I bet you were a John Blake fan too.
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Everyone was just hiding and waiting for you to make some inane comment.
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Sorry to hear that...
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At this point I would rather see them just play Blake Bell and add power running from the QB to our offensive system, AKA what Kansas State does with Collin Klein.
For one series, they went with Blake Bell starting at around the ND 35 or 40. They went right down the field and scored a touchdown. That power QB run, like Tebow or Klein, is very hard to stop and simple to run.
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You sure about that? I think he was brought in to pick up a short yardage situation. If he stayed in after that, it's b/c we busted something down inside the 10, most likely, but I don't recall.
This is my hope for the future although we are late to the party. There is no reason to wait on implementation. Bell should start getting more reps.
I have consistently voiced displeasure with Stoops game management and even he could be suffering from the breakneck pace we try to run.
It's football. Line up and win the 1 on 1 battles instead of trying to out gimmick the other team. Our system is fools gold and has only proved to work vs inferior teams.
I'm ready for the Landry Jones era to come to an end myself. He didn't play bad...but the kid is not an OU type of winner. We have to constantly bring in a back up QB just so we can score a touchdown in the redzone. We only lost 2 games at home before he became starter...and now I've lost count on how many home games we've lost under his 4 years here. Blake Bell is going to be a heisman front runner next year with all the weapons that he has coming back on the offense.
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I hate the "dink and dunk" system has tried to run for so many years. You can only throw so many screen passes.
Did Bob Stoops learn nothing from perhaps the best coach in the history of football, Bill Snyder? I would love, repeat, love for OU to run the exact same system that KSU does.
Or Alabama. Or what Notre Dame brought to town last night. Etc. Big Boy football. We play small ball.
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Really? You've lost count? The answer is three.
And not one of those losses could be laid solely, or even primarily, at his feet. They were (like most losses) a team effort, with him taking some of the blame.
As for Blake being a savior next season, I hope you're right about that, but I fear you're letting yourself in for some major disappointment. All those "weapons" didn't bail out Landry last night, and Bell's going to be at the front end of a steep learning curve next season. He's thrown 16 or 17 passes in his OU career, completing half of them, and virtually all of those were in mop-up action. And in my opinion, it was Bell's entirely unforced fumble, if one to pick one play, that went the furthest in causing our loss to KSU. If I could reverse one offensive play in that game, it would undoubtedly be that.
The idea that Landry's been the biggest problem with the team over the past two or three seasons is, in my opinion, is questionable at best.
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That is not even remotely true.
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As for KSU and their system, how good was it last year when they lost three games, two of which they didn't break 17 points? ND? LOL. Yeah, they looked solid last night, but their offense has been TERRIBLE this season. They've won b/c of a dominating defense, in spite of their offense.
Every 3-5 years Snyder is able to put a solid, all-around team on the field. And then they graduate a few guys, and go back to losing 3-4 games a year. You cannot win consistently with that kind of offense, in a league that scores a lot of points. NOBODY, really, in the SEC scores a lot of points, so they can afford to have dumb-downed offenses. When there were a few teams that put together really good offenses, they beat the good defensive teams. Anybody remember Auburn? Arkansas to a lesser extent? Just b/c Bama wins with an ugly offense, doesn't mean you have to have an ugly offense to win. They win b/c of their defense. Period. If OU had their defense, we'd be winning every game too.
Every 3-5 years Snyder is able to put a solid, all-around team on the field. And then they graduate a few guys, and go back to losing 3-4 games a year. You cannot win consistently with that kind of offense, in a league that scores a lot of points. NOBODY, really, in the SEC scores a lot of points, so they can afford to have dumb-downed offenses. When there were a few teams that put together really good offenses, they beat the good defensive teams. Anybody remember Auburn? Arkansas to a lesser extent? Just b/c Bama wins with an ugly offense, doesn't mean you have to have an ugly offense to win. They win b/c of their defense. Period. If OU had their defense, we'd be winning every game too.
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You obviously have no appreciation for what Snyder does at KANSAS STATE. One of the worst teams, historically, in college football. He brought them up, retired, they tanked, he came back, now they are #2 in the BCS and just drilling people.
All of this with entirely 2-3 star talent and a ton of junior college transfers.
