Post Game Observations (Syracuse '14)...

[greyhammer90]

Not sure if a troll, high, crazy or impaired.

 

[georgia irish]

what about this year

 

[georgia irish]

When Hal Mumme ran the spread offense at Valdosta state college people said it wouldn't work they look like idiots now

 

[Cackalacky]

When Hal Mumme ran the spread offense at Valdosta state college people said it wouldn't work they look like idiots now

His long history of violations at Kentucky we not too great. There were some fairl poor decisions made on his part.

 

[georgia irish]

True but his spread was pretty smart I guess he thought outside the box

 

[pkt77242]

Not sure if a troll, high, crazy or impaired.

I know that he has a phobia of punctuation.

 

[irishfan]

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[Cackalacky]

True but his spread was pretty smart I guess he thought outside the box

Well the spread is now in the box so there needs to be an evolutionary step

 

[gkIrish]

Let's run the Spread Coast Offense

 

[Cackalacky]

With two dual threat Qbs in the backfield I say run the Jackrabbit spread

 

[irishog77]

I liked Diaco's plan last year to sign all the Cats. I wanted to see a defense consisting 11 Cats.

Now that ND has a legit QB coach, could the possibility be there of signing a sh!t ton of QB's, and then line up 11 of them on offense?

 

[stlnd01]

I liked Diaco's plan last year to sign all the Cats. I wanted to see a defense consisting 11 Cats.

Purr....

 

[phgreek]

Im with you bro. Dual Qbs in the backfield is groundbreaking ish.

I use it every year...its especially devastating with a lefty and righty....for 11 and 12 year olds...hehehehe! I did it because at that age there are always a couple kids who want to be QB...and its too soon to take that away from one of them...so we worked it out.

Picture the ball handler of the snap at pistol depth...he's not the QB that throws...he looks for certain alignments where he runs, or he pitches to right handed qb rolling right who has a number of options to throw or run. Same to the left...I've gone entire halves w/o calling a play...they just line up, read it, and go...Hilarious watching other coaches...

would crack up if ND did it...just don't know if I'd have the stones to do it with older kids...

 

[ThePiombino]

I just wanna give a shout out to the dude sitting next to me who spilled his entire beer on me ~20 minutes before kickoff. It was really awesome reeking of beer (that I didn't even get to drink) and being soaked for the majority of the game. Good times. I wonder if he's lurking on this board, didn't even think to ask... SHOW YOURSELF, SPILLER OF BEER!!!

 

[T Town Tommy]

The thing is the whole "impose your will" thing almost never happens. It maybe only happens when Oregon plays Jacksonville St. or Alabama plays Troy. A middling ACC team isn't very often going to have anyone's will "imposed" on them.

In reality most teams just adjust to what the opposing team is giving and exploit that. We were able to do that pretty efficiently most of the night sans the turnovers. We moved the ball quite well and left probably another 100 yards and 20 points on the board. The reason we went "screen after screen" is because SU was giving it to us so we were more than happy to take it. Hell Fuller took one to the house.

I disagree. Great teams do impose their will against other teams. Yes, every team has games where they don't play to their potential, have a lot of turnovers, etc. And you can get by doing that against lesser opponents.

But if you want to be an elite team, at some point you have to line up and punch the other team in the mouth. And then do it again and again. Your strength v. their strength. You either do it or you don't do it. And that is the difference between winning and losing at that elite level.

 

[T Town Tommy]

I think BKs been watching some Chip Kelly. One play early where Golson faked the handoff in the shotgun and then rolled out and had the option to either pass to the WR on the bubble screen or run is a staple of the Eagles offense and we (Eagles) run it a couple times a game. It's my favorite play that the Eagles run consistently.

Here it is.

Gus M. makes a living off that play as well. Hard to defend effectively.

 

[dublinirish]

With two dual threat Qbs in the backfield I say run the Jackrabbit spread

I use it every year...its especially devastating with a lefty and righty....for 11 and 12 year olds...hehehehe! I did it because at that age there are always a couple kids who want to be QB...and its too soon to take that away from one of them...so we worked it out.

Picture the ball handler of the snap at pistol depth...he's not the QB that throws...he looks for certain alignments where he runs, or he pitches to right handed qb rolling right who has a number of options to throw or run. Same to the left...I've gone entire halves w/o calling a play...they just line up, read it, and go...Hilarious watching other coaches...

would crack up if ND did it...just don't know if I'd have the stones to do it with older kids...

Raise your game son(s)!

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[kmoose]

why doesnt everybody think outside of the box

We wouldn't have to think outside of the box, if Kelly would just play Bettis and feed him the ball all night long!

 

[GoIrish41]

I want to see Torri Hunter get some more time and touches. I know we only saw him for a few plays, but he seems to have the instincts, confidence and athleticism to be really good.

 

[ickythump1225]

I disagree. Great teams do impose their will against other teams. Yes, every team has games where they don't play to their potential, have a lot of turnovers, etc. And you can get by doing that against lesser opponents.

But if you want to be an elite team, at some point you have to line up and punch the other team in the mouth. And then do it again and again. Your strength v. their strength. You either do it or you don't do it. And that is the difference between winning and losing at that elite level.

Football is a game of adjustments, on the fly, at halftime, etc. If a team is loading the box leaving the long ball open even Alabama is going to take a shot. Teams used to just "line up and punch each other in the mouth" but then Notre Dame popularized the forward pass 100 years ago.

I see coaches always making adjustments and taking what is open. Maybe towards the end of games when teams get worn down or their spirits get broken a team can impose their will. Or if your opponent is just clearly overmatched. But you can't tell me that Alabama is just going to impose it's will on LSU (except maybe on the rare occasion LSU is having a complete off day). When you guys recently torched Florida what you were doing the first half wasn't working so during halftime I'm sure there were adjustments made and you feasted on what Florida was giving you.

 

[T Town Tommy]

Football is a game of adjustments, on the fly, at halftime, etc. If a team is loading the box leaving the long ball open even Alabama is going to take a shot. Teams used to just "line up and punch each other in the mouth" but then Notre Dame popularized the forward pass 100 years ago.

I see coaches always making adjustments and taking what is open. Maybe towards the end of games when teams get worn down or their spirits get broken a team can impose their will. Or if your opponent is just clearly overmatched. But you can't tell me that Alabama is just going to impose it's will on LSU (except maybe on the rare occasion LSU is having a complete off day). When you guys recently torched Florida what you were doing the first half wasn't working so during halftime I'm sure there were adjustments made and you feasted on what Florida was giving you.

See Ga game.. circa 2012.

 

[wizards8507]

I know that he has a phobia of punctuation.

The punctuation in the "correct" example is wrong. There shouldn't be a comma. The issue is the capitalization of Uncle Jack.

Helping your Uncle Jack off his horse.

Also acceptable: Helping your uncle, Jack, off his horse.

 

[dublinirish]

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full game replay if anyone is looking for it

 

[kmoose]

When you guys recently torched Florida what you were doing the first half wasn't working so during halftime I'm sure there were adjustments made and you feasted on what Florida was giving you.

You are assuming that all adjustments are simply calling plays that will capitalize on defensive alignments from the first half. That's simply not always true. Do you think that Defensive Coordinators are so stupid that they come out in the second half and run the exact same plan as the first half? They make adjustments, too. Sometimes the halftime adjustments are a simple, "They are not biting on the misdirection running plays, and we outweigh them by 20 lbs a man, up front. Let's just line and run power at them." Or vice versa. Maybe power isn't working so you decide to spread them out.

 

[T Town Tommy]

You are assuming that all adjustments are simply calling plays that will capitalize on defensive alignments from the first half. That's simply not always true. Do you think that Defensive Coordinators are so stupid that they come out in the second half and run the exact same plan as the first half? They make adjustments, too. Sometimes the halftime adjustments are a simple, "They are not biting on the misdirection running plays, and we outweigh them by 20 lbs a man, up front. Let's just line and run power at them." Or vice versa. Maybe power isn't working so you decide to spread them out.

Agree. Most half time "adjustments" are small tweeks based on a number of variables. That phrase is often misinterpreted as blowing up a week of game planning and starting over... in a matter of a halftime timeframe. It just doesn't happen that way.

The Bama/Ga game is textbook imposing your will type of game. Saban lined up, ran the ball, and told Ga to stop him. Nothing fancy... our strength against yours.

 

[ResLife Hero]

Anybody see this fight break out? I was on the lower bowl so I had no idea:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>VIDEO: Man dropped with single punch in brawl at Notre Dame-Syracuse game. <a href="http://t.co/Ci0pDcLytM">http://t.co/Ci0pDcLytM</a></p>— Deadspin (@Deadspin) <a href="https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/516632141040717824">September 29, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[greyhammer90]

Agree. Most half time "adjustments" are small tweeks based on a number of variables. That phrase is often misinterpreted as blowing up a week of game planning and starting over... in a matter of a halftime timeframe. It just doesn't happen that way.

The Bama/Ga game is textbook imposing your will type of game. Saban lined up, ran the ball, and told Ga to stop him. Nothing fancy... our strength against yours.

I think that's an overly simplistic way of looking at 1) Alabama's game plan and 2) what a "strength" can be too though.

First, I think it's crazy/insulting to think that Nick "this Div. 3 team is really tough y'all, seriously, aight?'" Saban simply "imposes his will" on good football teams with no strategic logic/reasoning behind it. It's not strength versus strength, its "which reasonably strong portion of our game has the greatest chance of success against a relatively weak portion of your game."

Second, a "strength" can be many different things depending on your offense. And I think that offensive flexibility is one of those. The ability to continuously match your formations against defensive coverages to find the open playmaker until the defensive coordinator cries in the booth is a strength IMO just like a power run game is a strength, or an elite WR core is a strength.

 

[ickythump1225]

You are assuming that all adjustments are simply calling plays that will capitalize on defensive alignments from the first half. That's simply not always true. Do you think that Defensive Coordinators are so stupid that they come out in the second half and run the exact same plan as the first half? They make adjustments, too. Sometimes the halftime adjustments are a simple, "They are not biting on the misdirection running plays, and we outweigh them by 20 lbs a man, up front. Let's just line and run power at them." Or vice versa. Maybe power isn't working so you decide to spread them out.

I fail to see how what you said is any different than what I said. In fact that's what I've talking about this whole time. Moving to spread because power isn't working, or vice versa? That's not "imposing your will" that's making adjustments, just like I said.

 

[ickythump1225]

Agree. Most half time "adjustments" are small tweeks based on a number of variables. That phrase is often misinterpreted as blowing up a week of game planning and starting over... in a matter of a halftime timeframe. It just doesn't happen that way.

The Bama/Ga game is textbook imposing your will type of game. Saban lined up, ran the ball, and told Ga to stop him. Nothing fancy... our strength against yours.

No it was a textbook example of a team taking what was clearly being given to them. UGA was clearly overmatched in the trenches and so Alabama took that all day long. UGA was also thin from injuries I believe and got worn down. Again that was just smart game planning on the part of Saban to recognize what was being given to him. It's not different than when a starting corner gets hurt so the QB decides to pick up on the back up. UGA's strength wasn't in run defense, hell it wasn't in defense at all. In fact they were a pretty powerful offense so really "imposing your will" on UGA would have been shutting down their offense cold, which didn't happen.

Honestly (as much I hate saying this) the NCG from that year is a closer example to a team imposing their will than the UGA game. We predicated our gameplans on being able to shut down the run and force teams to the air. But we were overmatched and outschemed by Saban and Co. that year.

 

[Veritate Duce Progredi]

Anybody see this fight break out? I was on the lower bowl so I had no idea:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>VIDEO: Man dropped with single punch in brawl at Notre Dame-Syracuse game. <a href="http://t.co/Ci0pDcLytM">http://t.co/Ci0pDcLytM</a></p>— Deadspin (@Deadspin) <a href="https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/516632141040717824">September 29, 2014</a></blockquote>
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That Syracuse guy will be sore in the morning, ha ha. That kid who delivered the punch really took aim and dropped him. That. was. awesome.