The 2019 Tony The Tiger Sun Bowl on December 31st.
Herm Edwards and Arizona State beat FSU.
Cougs picked last in P12N
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Herm Edwards and Arizona State beat FSU.
There are no coaching secrets on defending the option. The scheme has been around forever. The staff had no idea what to do.
Ya know what that looked like to me? It looked like a staff that thought they didn't have to put in the time on the game film. They could just show up with their BCS athletes versus their non BCS athletes and win. The kids would bail them out on the scheme cause they are bigger and faster.
Holy tap dancing Moses. AF has been running that scheme forever. How the f*ck do you not watch film from the last 10 years of their losses and go into that game KNOWING what to do???
Poorly coached all season. In a season where they needed to be smartly coached and had a smaller margin for error than usual, they blamed the kids for being lazy.
Typically if you roll on a team during the season it could be a while before you get another job. I would love to know what TC said in his interview with Va Tech that washed away all of those concerns and got him a job.
Ya know what that looked like to me? It looked like a staff that thought they didn't have to put in the time on the game film. They could just show up with their BCS athletes versus their non BCS athletes and win. The kids would bail them out on the scheme cause they are bigger and faster.
Holy tap dancing Moses. AF has been running that scheme forever. How the f*ck do you not watch film from the last 10 years of their losses and go into that game KNOWING what to do???
Poorly coached all season. In a season where they needed to be smartly coached and had a smaller margin for error than usual, they blamed the kids for being lazy.
Typically if you roll on a team during the season it could be a while before you get another job. I would love to know what TC said in his interview with Va Tech that washed away all of those concerns and got him a job.
We have the talent to win 6 games. The P12S is still garbage, and we have UW, OSU and Stanford that should all be winnable games, even with the transition.
I will accept 3 wins iff most of the losses are by a score or less AND we are scoring 30+ every game. I fully expect the hot garbage that was the defense to continue to some degree - new scheme, lack of time in it, and depleted of talent at many positions. Knowing that, Rolo HAS to emphasize scoring fast and often. Failure to execute this plan with the talent they have would be unacceptable.
I will accept 3 wins iff most of the losses are by a score or less AND we are scoring 30+ every game. I fully expect the hot garbage that was the defense to continue to some degree - new scheme, lack of time in it, and depleted of talent at many positions. Knowing that, Rolo HAS to emphasize scoring fast and often. Failure to execute this plan with the talent they have would be unacceptable.
Air FOrce took Mike Leach's principles of repping the same thing over and over and over again and threw it right in his face.
I've been watching quite a bit of Hawaii ball lately and they seem to throw the ball vertically a lot more and have more yds after catch.
I didn't see too many crossing routes
I didn't see too many crossing routes
If you're gonna be a pass heavy offense you must make the defense defend the entire field. You can't choose to never throw deep. It just floods the medium to short routes with bodies and makes it harder to connect. Wanna crush your yards after catch? Add more tacklers in the short and medium area of the field...
It's gonna be interesting to see what Rolo does. He's got receivers, he's got a big time back, he needs a QB.
I see, you're laying to the ground work to complain about how deep passes don't connect enough.
Because his former boss at Minnesota Jerry Kill was a special assistant at Virginia Tech in 2019 and Claeys was being offered a position lower in responsibility than he had at WSU, Minnesota, Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois, Emporia State when he coached for Kill.
Claeys and Kill were together 19 years and Claeys was his DC for 14 of those years.
Did Beau Baldwin when he hired Paul Wulff at Cal Poly ask him "why in the hell did you put a sick Jeff Tuel into the Idaho State game when it was already a blow out?"
Btw, Jerry Dipoto walked away from the Angels GM post in July 2015 and had two jobs within 89 days. The mess he left behind with the Angels (worst farm system in MLB) wasn't discussed by Howard Lincoln or Chuck Armstrong when the Mariners interviewed Dipoto - they have no clue.
What I find interesting about Tracy Claeys is that he is one of the top five paid linebacker coaches in college despite never having coached the position before. It seems that they overpaid him. It doesn't appear that teams were banging down the door to hire him as a DC, not sure why they had to offer him so much. Plus, you are not hiring him for his recruiting prowess.
Regarding Dipoto, I give him a pass for the Angels. First, Armstrong had retired the year before Dipoto was hired, so he had nothing to do with the hire. Lincoln stepped back from the interview process, it was current CEO Kevin Mather that did the interview and hired Dipoto. So, the beginning of your premise is wrong.
Really, his farm system was hurt by trading away players to win now and that the owner, Artie Moreno, kept on signing free agents, so the Angels routinely forfeited their top draft picks. He is not blameless, but he had a lot going against him.
It is too soon to know how Dipoto will do going forward, but their is talent in the Mariners farm system now.
Dipoto had Mike Trout making the league minimum and wasn't able to consistently get his club into the playoffs despite having a top 5 payroll to work with. Nor was he able to build a farm system. I don't doubt Moreno is a demanding owner, but the man didn't make resources a limiting factor. Plus it's not like Dipoto was able to turn things around here.
And after Dipoto left, the Angels haven't done much either, as they haven't had a winning record since he left. The only time the Angels made the playoff's in the last ten years, Dipoto was GM. In fact, they had winning records four of the five years he was GM. Plus, come on. Trout was not the Trout we know now. He was just beginning his career as a 19 year old.
Also, Dipoto really didn't have control of many team decisions. He was third in the pecking order behind Moreno and Scioscia. It is well known that Sciocia didn't like sabermetrics and ignored everything Dipoto wanted to do.
Here I’ll agree with you. With a decent defensive game plan, our talent wins. Throwing a 3-man front at a triple option was suicide.
Should have called Doba. His D’s we’re great against the option. Or they could have called the coach from Pullman HS. Or Colton HS. Either of them would have had a better plan.
I don't want to turn this into a baseball thread so I will say I think Dipoto's best skill has been creating a lot of movement so his critics get distracted and are unable to focus on any one shortcoming with his process. At age 20, Mike Trout was the best player in baseball. Dipoto didn't draft him, not did he develop him. Check it out:
http://proxy.espn.com/mlb/statistics?year=2012
Trout was giving the Angels 10.9 wins for the league minimum. His value was off the charts in his first full season even if his HR numbers weren't staggering yet.
As a head coach, how do you watch your DC roll that out on the first series and not say something? At what point do you act? After they've had the ball for 20 minutes? 40 minutes???
Like most Spokane area kids of my age, I grew up a Dodgers fan. I got to go to Indians games in the late 60's and early 70's and see most of the mid-70's Dodger world series teams, including Lasorda. When Fox started the ruination of the Dodgers I frowned; when they sold to the clown from Boston I switched to the Angels. I got to watch Dipoto, Scioscia and Moreno over time.
Scioscia put his emphasis on small ball, defense, turning double plays, hard base running, being able to bunt, etc. A power hitter for clean up was nice but not required if you had enough contact hitters. And pitching? That unfortunately was always a problem for the Angels. On top of having pitching as a lower priority than most, Mike valued relationships over health track record, and too often the Angels would head into a season with a full pitching roster that had promise on paper and was decimated by the 4th of July.
Moreno listened to Scioscia for most of the time that Mike was there, though Arte didn't always do what Mike suggested. A couple of the high dollar free agent contracts wasted on idiots were all on Arte.
Dipoto was an adequate guy when it came to re-arranging the deck chairs on the nearly annual Angel's imitation of the Titanic, as the pitching went south. He cleaned up well and looked good when being interviewed. I was never sure if the minor league system was not a priority to him, or if it was, was he so criminally inept that he actually hurt the process? They were not bad at spotting talent and drafting it. The chances of the drafted kid making it to the big league club were slim, though, because they often became trade fodder for that next free agent. And when your big problem, year after year, is pitching, you can't afford to not develop a bunch of pitchers in your farm system. Sort of like O linemen at WSU; better take 5 recruits most years so you have enough that can play 3-5 years later. The Angels drafted them, but did not develop and keep enough of them. And so it continues today, though they had two up from the farm system last year that had promise, and at least one of them would have been in the starting rotation this year. So maybe it is getting better now that Dipoto is gone.
There was a lot of head scratching among Angel's fans when the Mariners hired Dipoto. Surely the M's leadership knew something that we didn't, because none of us could see any reason for the guy to be employed in baseball (at least at that level).
Looking at the last 19 years, I’m going to say the Ms don’t know anything others don’t. “We’ll always have ‘95”, and that’s it.
I don’t think you let it go past the second series...and that’s if you’re being generous.
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