Recent content by 50PoundHead

O-line is terrible and interior DL/LB are underperforming. LBs are especially underperforming. Team speed is just bad. If the team is determined to run a pro-set with Lindsey at QB, you simply can't have him ducking and/or dumping off the ball every time he drops back. Opposing defenses are...

I think Coyle and Fleck are fine, but if you want to go beyond "fine" there will have to be an infusion of talent (however that happens). I can't believe the drop-off in talent from last year's team to this year's team. It's almost night-and-day out there.

I gave them a C largely because I saw the effort and I'm a notoriously easy grader. Can't teach speed and I was absollutely shocked by the speed differential between the teams. Agree on the identity issue. Fleck and company have run a pretty much straight pro-set since he's been here with a...

I thought campus security was supposed to stop muggings. The O DB was all over Smith.

FIRST DOWN!!!!!!

Speed differential is frightening.

I don't know what the term would be, but Fleck and company do a pretty job of identifying "risers" early in the process. That can get guys to commit before they have other offers, but the challenge is keeping them in the fold. If Jilek wants to play TE, that wasn't going to happen here with...

I want to differentiate a bit about the word "schtick" and I hope I'm not nitpicking because I agree with what you have written. I think Fleck has a "schtick" in a positive sense to help explain to the public his view of the world and his place in it. The slogans--which are often taken by his...

I think QB depth is going to be a challenge for every program. Offensive skilled-position guys (QB, WR, RB) want the ball in their hands and they'll likely figure out after a season (red-shirt or not) whether they are going to get the ball enough and make their decision as to stay or transfer...

The reason they insist on a parachute of any color is precisely due to the situation Kelly finds himself in. There a ton of variables (LSU and the rest of the SEC probably have a few more than most) that can lead to a mess like this one. Of course, Kelly came from a pressure cooker so as...

Every mensch a king.

I really laugh at the Governor getting involved. I am only half kidding when I say I wouldn't be surprised if he created a new state agency: The Department of Football.

I had similar thoughts at first, but after I took a step back and thought about it it's really not such a big deal or deviation from what should be a sound strategy in the portal era. It used to be that you had a recruiting class (of varying levels of success) and you could count on those guys...

In a way, I met Jerry Burns. My daughters attended the International School of Minnesota which was located just south of Highway 62 and just east of the 494 ramps. I was in a hurry to pick them up one day and was tooling down 62 at a pretty good clip. The driver ahead of me was driving about...

You'd have to get the whole gameplan in a single seance. If you had to perform a seance between plays, I think you'd get a ton of delay-of-game penalties. Of course, if you did have a seance, you could probably get Burnsie in the conversation as well.