DID FLORIDA DUCK BOISE STATE?
The answer is yes according to Matt Hayes at the Sporting News. We’re not talking about not wanting to play on the smurf turf either, but when Wyoming tried to back out its contract to play at Florida this year and offered Boise State as a replacement, the Gators balked. Hopefully, this is a remnant of the Zook regime, which no doubt would have lost or won unimpressively. If not, watch out Gator fans because Wyoming isn’t bad…. they’re not Boise State, but they’re better than the usual Lousiana directional school brought in for the home opening beat down. We suspect the Zooker would have struggled mightily against them.
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Feelin’ it on a Monday, HP? We love it. In fact, you’ve given us a column idea: if you have the Gang of Six, we need to have a defensive equivalent. Title pending…
Comment by Anonymous — June 13, 2005 @ 6:19 pm
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Play action can be exciting-see the Colts in the NFL. More exciting than Saban is easy to do-if he’d been a little more adventurous offensively last year, they might have made that Oregon State game less of a contest. Ditto for their disaster of a bowl game.
Comment by Anonymous — June 13, 2005 @ 5:54 pm
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HP: I don’t thing we really disagree that much. I was refering to conferences as a whole. No question that Boise, Louisville, USC, Utah (under Meyer… Don’t know what they’ll run exactly this year), Florida (under the Spurr-Dogg and now under Meyer) are far more sophisticated than the others in their conferences or other conferences. My point was just that what LSU and Georgia run is not much less schematically than what the second tear of Pac 10 runs. I’ll grant you that Cal is above those guys, but having only watched them probably 3 times, what I’ve seen is they are more in the Miami of a few years ago mold of running a balanced attack of a few staple plays that they run well, with the quarter back execution being their real key to success more so than schematic mis-matches. I think they are somewhere in between the LSU/Georgia/Arizona State level and the Gang of Six level you refer too (which included 3 mid majors I might point out, so it is not a conference specific thing). The questions I have for next season are whether Utah remains in that schematically gifted group or if South Carolina and/or Notre Dame (as Weiss was a master in the pros) can join in on the fun. One thing I’ll say about Spurrier though, is although his X’s and O’s are great to watch, it’s his play calling throughout the game that I most admire.
Comment by Anonymous — June 13, 2005 @ 5:47 pm
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Play action makes things exciting? I had no idea.
I remember when J.C. Watts used to play action and throw those deep bombs…very exciting.
When Miles starts putting Broussard spread wide as a receiver, then sends his fullback on a wheel route, then has the tight end do a streak down field, before hitting the X receiver on a slant after he’s matched up with a linebacker, THEN we’ll see a play-action that means something.
Comment by Heismanpundit — June 13, 2005 @ 4:57 pm
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Oh Stranko, come on my man!
Are you kidding me? You HAVE to be.
Yes, Auburn ran a 10-year old Pac-10 offense last year. And they went undefeated in the SEC. They are the exception, not the rule.
Georgia–and the rest of the SEC, save UF–is nowhere near the offensive sophistication of the Gang of Six (USC, Cal, Boise, Louisville, Utah, UF)….it’s not even close.
Obviously, all teams have to execute to succeed. But here’s the question to ask: If two teams executed their schemes perfectly and had equal talent, who would win? Would it be the team that runs off tackle every play and never uses the tight end or throws to their backs out of the backfield? I don’t think so.
I challenge you to watch the Gang of Six very closely this season. Remember, Pete Carroll said that Boise was the most sophisticated offense he had seen on tape in college. I think he has a good beat on it.
Comment by Heismanpundit — June 13, 2005 @ 4:52 pm
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—-We’ll agree to disagree on Croom. I think he is overmatched and will be an utter failure. It’s a shame cus he’s a nice guy who has had too many expectations heaped upon him.
–I agree that the Baton Rouge authorities will do their best to fix that game up really nice for the Sun Devils. Still, I don’t think it affected the Beavers too much last year. If anything, the voodoo will keep the Tigers in the game. As for ASU’s backs, none of them were very good anyway, including Wade, who is more of a slasher (and a shooter). ASU will have zero running game against LSU, but their tight end will have like 10 catches.
–Methinks that the weirdness emanating from Arkansas had to do almost entirely with Matt Jones playing for the Hogs. If I were an opposing team, I would also drop what I was doing and gawk when a giraffe starting galloping with a football. I think this game will be somewhere along the lines of 56-10.
–It may be a split. But there would be fewer splits if the SEC would venture to a few OOC home and homes on occasion. LSU is not going to ASU next year, for instance, just like they didn’t go to Oregon State.
–It gets cold in Wyoming. Lots of players by the levy drinking whiskey and rye.
Comment by Heismanpundit — June 13, 2005 @ 4:44 pm