Along with a lot of folks I was pretty frustrated with our showing last Saturday. As I listened to the different things Kill talked about over the course of the week I thought he said a lot of the right things; much of it coach speak but if you listen between the lines what I took from it was: He has a system that he and Limegrover and the rest of his staff run. They've run it for years and they have faith in it. Execution was lacking against Iowa and they're going to coach the kids up and execution is going to get better. In the meantime, any of us hoping for them to change things up in any signficant fashion might be waiting for a long time. Kill is very strong in his belief that his systems have worked in the past and that they'll work here as well it'll just take some more work.
What I really take from that is it's no use beating our heads against the wall when they come out and do what they do; even if it's not working that well, because they do what they do. Hopefully, they'll put a wrinkle or two in where needed (run a bubble screen now and again, for example) but their zone read offense out of the gun will be the mainstay and by God they're going to run it until they get it right. I honestly think we may give away a game or two or three while our coaches and players work on their execution and I guess time will tell how this will play out over the next year or two but it kinda is what it is. Realizing same and accepting it maybe (maybe) will help my blood pressure stay under control better when our O struggles, but keeps running the same plays in the same patterns like we've seen them do the past couple of years.
What I really take from that is it's no use beating our heads against the wall when they come out and do what they do; even if it's not working that well, because they do what they do. Hopefully, they'll put a wrinkle or two in where needed (run a bubble screen now and again, for example) but their zone read offense out of the gun will be the mainstay and by God they're going to run it until they get it right. I honestly think we may give away a game or two or three while our coaches and players work on their execution and I guess time will tell how this will play out over the next year or two but it kinda is what it is. Realizing same and accepting it maybe (maybe) will help my blood pressure stay under control better when our O struggles, but keeps running the same plays in the same patterns like we've seen them do the past couple of years.
