College Football

I think the weather plays a role. Not an excuse but more of another obstacle and in turn preparing for that obstacle.

It is more than if so and so was in the SEC or so and so played a Big Ten schedule. Move the entire football operation from one place to another. It is the preparation for the weather and how the weather dictates game plans. Alabama and Clemson play like Alabama and Clemson year around. Speed and misdirection. Michigan and Wisconsin have a stretch where there game plan is dictated by the weather and a lot of the practice time as well.

Then at the end of the year the Michigans and Wisconsins and the other brutal weather universities have to not only employ a different plan they have to figure out how to stop it.

But at the end of the Dayna d to use a Hoosiers basketball reference, the fields are 50 yards wide and a hundred yards long. For everybody.

S

 

Not that NC is brutally cold for stretches but I like the cold weather.

Maybe if we got it for weeks and even months on end I would change my mind but for a couple three days at a time I like it.

Last week it was 0 on Sunday. Wind chill between 5 and 10 below. Snowed as the temperature dropped and then froze for the next two days.

Five days later on Friday it was 74 degrees. I dropped the Carharts and cover-alls and worked outside in a T-shirt.

NC weather at its finest.

S

 

Not college but the Super Bowl was a perfect example. 7 minutes to go in the 4th. If Matt Ryan takes 3 knees and they punt at the end of the play clock on their last 3 possessions. They have zero yards, they look stupid, the stadium erupts with boos, the true football fans vow to never watch another football game and then they have a World Champion's parade in Atlanta.

Play calling and game management is the worst it has ever been in the history of the game. At every level.

S

 

I know. At some point the recycling should stop.

Sarkesian runs the ball ten more times and Bama wins the title. Even after Scarborough went out Clemson struggled against the run. It has to be some sort of penis check to prove we can do whatever we want, even if it is in spite of winning.

The only good part of the come back was I hit for $250 on the pool at the plant. At least there was bright spot in the shitty commercials and the collapse in the 2nd half.

S

 

I can believe that. Saban's best teams have had dominant offensive lines and they run the ball. I sort of believe his offense was a tad more open than Les Miles. My mind just went blank but the OC prior to Kiffin ?????? but I thought they were just open enough to keep 9 out of the box. I thought Kiffin went too far at times, passing the ball to make a point or a statement.

Atlanta did not have to take a knee but inside runs with nothing to the outside and punt. There is simply not enough time left to score twice with only two time outs.

Play calling is at an all time low.

S

 

When you build a game controlling smash mouth defense on one side of the ball you can't throw the ball all over the place and put them back on the field in a minute or so.

I think when Alabama is hurt by the running QB it is when the offense puts them back on the field. They play at such a break neck pace running the ball gives them a break.

In Atlanta's case running the ball would have killed the clock but at the same time kept Brady on the bench. A double whammy for the Patriots.

S

 

I guess the spring games just gave you a short fix. LOL

"My name is Bama, and I'm hooked on college football", or at least that is how my meetings start off.

LOL

Just another couple-three months...................................................................

 

I read about him this morning. I did not see him play. Two Alabama alumni has him ahead of Hurts according to the article. He must be good.

S