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Sports => Snyder's Electronic Cyber Space World => Topic started by: Dan Rydell on October 15, 2006, 05:03:53 PM
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I didn't see the game yesterday...had to be at a wedding.
From what I've read, it sounds like the biggest problem, again, was our oline. This is disappointing, of course, due to our head coach being an oline coach. Of course, if our oline players lack talent, as it appears, then no amount of coaching may help.
That being said, sounds like our defense did fairly well. Part of that is due to Callahan's conservative tendencies, it sounds like, but I think the important thing here is that we've got a coach on one side of the ball that can get the job done. Given the problems with offense, don't you think that we'll see a new oline coach and possibly a new offensive coordinator before next season? I would think that Prince might try to get someone with more experience, to see if we can't get past some of our problems getting outcoached, which seem to be mainly on the offensive side of the ball and special teams.
Speaking of special teams, what's made the big plays is their aggressiveness. Unfortunately, we've seen that also allow big plays for the other team. Tibesar and his boys need to find a balance now. They need to keep the aggressiveness, but temper it with a bit of awareness so that more experiences coaches aren't able to use that aggressiveness to make big plays on returns and fakes.
The big thing going forward is to keep the guys motivated. We're probably going to lose at Mizzou next week and to Texas, but Iowa State, at ku, and at Colorado are all winnable, and if we win those, we'll get third place in the North and a bowl, which would be huge. I'm glad Tech lost at Colorado this week, as I think that'll actually improve our chances of winning out there.
Finally, thank goodness we're not ku. $1.5 million a year to a man with numerous self-control problems whose regime got the school into NCAA trouble, and whose team gives up 42 second-half points to OSU at home. Mark Mangino and ku deserve each other. Watching the ku "fans" come to realize the truth of what we've been telling them for the past few years is fun. It'd be even more fun if we'd have won yesterday, but I feel a lot better about our program than ku's right about now.