NCAA Week 8 Running Thread

It's because of the BBOCcksckry

 

Just listened to that interview. What he said was, "And then we knew that we had the opportunity to kick thereafter, so ..."

Not "kick their asses."

 

Note to anyone calling Arkansas an easy game: The Hogs still have two NFL tailbacks in the same backfield, and one of them is also a badass return specialist. They are not a bad football team.

 

When the QB is as pathetic as Dick, it can't be a good team.

 

Lost in the 4th quarter to Bama, lost in the 4th quarter to Kentucky, lost in the 4th quarter to Auburn, just beat Ole Miss — which had been scaring everyone — 44-8.

Not a good team, but not a bad team.

 

See, I was following you until the bolded part. It's not that LSU isn't playing smart, it's that its running the plays a dumb coach is calling. The coach is who isn't "playing very smart."

 

Thought the same thing. The players are doing nothing wrong. It is rare when any of them make a mistake. Miles is the one setting them up for disaster.

 

While LSU is the topic of discussion -- when you have a QB as mobile as Flynn -- is it really necessary to force a second guy in there to be the running guy? I would think they could open the play book up more if they just stuck with Flynn because they could still run some option but teams would also have to worry about him passing -- which would make the option more dangerous.

And one other thing -- can we stop with the "Ron Zook is a good coach" nonsense. He is a great recruiter, he is a great evaluator of talent -- but his teams will always underachieve because they do so many boneheaded things -- like rough the kicker basically in the endzone in a game which they lead by four points and then they allow Michigan to score the go-ahead touchdown. Like fumble punts on their own 15 in a tied game and like getting 10 penalties and allowing a team with a very mediocre offense -- without its best player --- to come to your house and win. If Illinois were smart, they'd fire Zook the day after signing day and hire a coach that knows what to do with all that talent he is compiling.

 

Agreed.

Talk to some other coaches. Maybe it's just sour grapes, but their opinions of Les Miles are hilarious.

 

If you really think that, Ty, (The players are doing nothing wrong. It is rare when any of them make a mistake.) you either haven't spent much time around the program, or you don't understand what you're seeing when you watch a game. LSU players make mistakes, just like all college athletes do, and they made them when Saban coached the team. They had classic collapses: against UAB (2000) when Josh Booty called a play that wasn't in the playbook, against Arkansas (2002) and in Saban's last game in 2004 (Capital One Bowl) when defensive players, Saban's area of expertise, screwed up their assignments. Hell, they won some big games when players screwed up, yet it worked out anyway. The players under Miles and Pelini make mistakes too, but it didn't start when Miles arrived.

Maybe you forgot the blue font for sarcasm. I hope you really don't believe the players rarely make mistakes.

 

With their starting QB out with a concussion Baylor played two QBs on Saturday. Mike Machen started but it's the guy who relieved him that I really wish would get the starting job - John David Weed.

The t-shirt and headline possibilities are endless.

Give Us Weed.

We Want Weed.

Aggies Smoke Weed.

Gundy Concerned With How Cowboys Will React to Weed.