Re: College Football - Bowl Discussion

[Derwood]

unless Andre Smith was playing defense too, he wasn't the reason they lost

 

No, the reason they lost was struggles on offense. Mike Johnson, the right tackle shifted to left tackle and was knocked out of the game in the first ten minutes due to injury. Alabama's offensive line was down to their third and fourth stringe tackles and it showed. They had no running game and were sacked nine times. Their defense kept them in the game the last three quarters. Their offense wasn't able to come back. No Andre Smith had a huge impact on the game's outcome. JPW was harassed all night, sacked eight or nine times and they had no running game.

 

I understand their offense struggled, but their vaunted SEC defense got torched in the 1st quarter.

[Mephistopheles]

unless Andre Smith was playing defense too, he wasn't the reason they lost

 

No, the reason they lost was struggles on offense. Mike Johnson, the right tackle shifted to left tackle and was knocked out of the game in the first ten minutes due to injury. Alabama's offensive line was down to their third and fourth stringe tackles and it showed. They had no running game and were sacked nine times. Their defense kept them in the game the last three quarters. Their offense wasn't able to come back. No Andre Smith had a huge impact on the game's outcome. JPW was harassed all night, sacked eight or nine times and they had no running game.

 

I understand their offense struggled, but their vaunted SEC defense got torched in the 1st quarter.

 

Not really. One drive started inside the thirty-five. The other two drives were made by a couple big plays on passes deep -- passes they tried and couldn't complete later in the game. It was more or less two good plays by Utah and a penalty. The defense didn't lose the game.

[SouthSideRyan]

WHO THE [expletive] GAVE UP THE BIG PLAYS??

[Mephistopheles]

i didnt say they played well the first three possessions.

[abuck1220]

if you give up big plays early but you are able to stop those big plays later, it is a fact that the early big plays were flukes. kinda like fumbles, missed PATs and wins/losses.

 

really, football games are made up of a series of coin tosses.

[Hosak8]

Dew...

 

Rodney Garner is in Knoxville today, having a second interview, and the feeling is that there is someting serious going down here.

 

Trooper Taylor has also told players at OSU that he is indeed leaving OSU for either Auburn or Tennessee.

 

Should we get both- and I realize that it's more likely we get neither- there is not a better recruiting staff anywhere in the country, and it's probably not even really close. Now, coaching 'em up is the priority, but getting them here looks much more promising right now.

[dew1679666265]

Dew...

 

Rodney Garner is in Knoxville today, having a second interview, and the feeling is that there is someting serious going down here.

 

Trooper Taylor has also told players at OSU that he is indeed leaving OSU for either Auburn or Tennessee.

 

Should we get both- and I realize that it's more likely we get neither- there is not a better recruiting staff anywhere in the country, and it's probably not even really close. Now, coaching 'em up is the priority, but getting them here looks much more promising right now.

 

I'd absolutely love getting Trooper back. Garner would be pretty nice as well, but if I had to choose between the two - it'd be Trooper.

 

Thanks for the news, this is very good stuff.

[CubInOK]

Trooper Taylor has also told players at OSU that he is indeed leaving OSU for either Auburn or Tennessee.

I just went to an OkST message board and no one said anything about this.

[Derwood]

if you give up big plays early but you are able to stop those big plays later, it is a fact that the early big plays were flukes. kinda like fumbles, missed PATs and wins/losses.

 

really, football games are made up of a series of coin tosses.

 

usually it's about a 7 coin flip swing for a home team but the game was on a neutral field, so it really came down to whether Meph carried the one or not

[Hosak8]

Trooper Taylor has also told players at OSU that he is indeed leaving OSU for either Auburn or Tennessee.

I just went to an OkST message board and no one said anything about this.

 

You can just about take it to the bank.

 

Disassociated UT booster, Roy Adams wrote on UT's Rivals site that one of OSU's receivers, whose name slips me at the moment, called a local high school coach in Memphis him to tell him that Trooper had told some players that he was leaving. Trooper did the same thing at Tennessee, as the players knew about 2 weeks before the media did. Roy Adams also broke the Orgeron news about two weeks ago.

 

That, and Trooper kept his house in Knoxville. TIFWIW, but I would not count on Trooper being in Stillwater next year.

Edited January 3, 2009 by Hosak8

[Hosak8]

Trooper Taylor has also told players at OSU that he is indeed leaving OSU for either Auburn or Tennessee.

I just went to an OkST message board and no one said anything about this.

 

The player was Jamal Mosby. Does that sound right?

[Andy]

Some major Buffalo schadenfreude for me today. I'm very irrationally bitter.

[SpongeWorthy]

I still can't get over RedFlash whining about how unclassy Utah was.

 

YOUR COACH IS NICK SABAN.

[SpongeWorthy]

It's also pretty funny to see Meph desperately spin Utah's victory because someone out there might use it to impugn Saint Timmy's accomplishments this season.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

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[imb]

The defense didn't lose the game.

 

lol

[TruffleShuffle]

somehow i missed this for like the past 3 weeks, but penn state did get a commitment from kevin newsome, who previously had committed to michigan. he's an "athletic quarterback" so he wouldn't be much of a change from the clark/robinson scheme that's been successful, and he's enrolling in january. he'll probably be the backup next year and then starter in 2010, barring any transfers.

[Hosak8]

Rodney Garner to UT is a done deal. It should be announced publicly in the next 48 hours.

 

Tennessee now has one of the best- if not the best- recruiting staffs in the country. Again, now they will have to deliver and coach up recruits, but this is a nice step forward following the disaster of the previous 4 years.

 

Lane Kiffin has done exactly what he said he'd do in his first press conference.

Edited January 4, 2009 by Hosak8

[cubweiser03]

Michigan gave up less passing yards than Bama. What im saying is thats not saying much for Bama's defense against Utah last night.

[Derwood]

somehow i missed this for like the past 3 weeks, but penn state did get a commitment from kevin newsome, who previously had committed to michigan. he's an "athletic quarterback" so he wouldn't be much of a change from the clark/robinson scheme that's been successful, and he's enrolling in january. he'll probably be the backup next year and then starter in 2010, barring any transfers.

 

that's good news on two fronts

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

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[TruffleShuffle]

i think vance recently discovered all the smileys and is just randomly posting them in various threads.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

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[E.J.]

i think vance recently discovered all the smileys and is just randomly posting them in various threads.

 

I think he got bopped in the head one too many times by the fake boobs of some Hooter's chick and has completely lost it.

[CubInOK]

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