skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
Nah....just CAPPED out.
Duke 31, Illinois 27 Postgame
Nah....just CAPPED out.
This is nonsense. Does this guy think we are visually impaired? Tackling sucks.
All I said was that I won’t trust a defense that rushes three
mhuml32
Gesture of Northern Aggression
Reality is Bielema was probably right. He needed the offense to chew up almost all of the clock. Worse yet is that Illinois started that possession with 6:06 on the clock, Duke had all three time-outs, plus the two-minute warning, and Illinois needed a TD (not a FG). The offense had to do a million things right on that final possession beyond score a TD. The run game had not been that effective all game, which made their task all the more challenging.
Possibly. But instead of constantly whining about NIL's disadvantages, he needs to do what BU did & adapt. He's portraying a loser's mentality, which is weird to me b/c he's not been that way his whole tenure. I can understand lobbying for change, and I'm good with that. But other programs are figuring it out. As of right now, there aren't other options.
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
I’m going to start calling him “Baghdad Bobby”. No one could objectively watch the game video and make those statements.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Oh, sure, I think there's always been a good alignment and understanding between the two of them.
Clock control has been a huge, HUGE aspect of the whole theory of the program, that has woven through all three phases and all of our recruiting.
My biggest worry right now is that BB doesn't fully grasp the extent to which he chucked that out the window with the shift in defensive philosophy. The basic script of the way we win games is going to have to look very different now.
Really nice breakdown:
With all of the patriotic helmet stickers we have done in the past, you would think looking at that picture would be the first sign to never use them again (along with an 0-1 record using it). You cannot even tell what it says.
A salary cap won't solve the issue. Some teams will just ignore it - much like they ignored the earlier rules prohibiting payment to players.
Correct. But remember Lou Tepper would’ve never let this happen.
Generally speaking it makes sense to keep the ball out of the other team’s hands. But the defense got stops on the 4th quarter. Offense had three chances to take the lead and couldn’t get it done.
Exactly right. It would be just like before NIL with certain teams paying paying players.
The big ten is undoubtedly down THIS year.
But the for the last 3 before that…the BIG 10 has obviously been better than the SEC.
Period.
Captain 14
- The Last Best Place
But darn-it we lost.
If the NCAA had a track record of fairly handing out penalties to programs who cheated, I'd be all for it. Pro teams that cheat get generally hit pretty hard.
Is our d coordinator delusional? Our tackling was better? I saw one good hit and tackle by Bailey. That was it.
Then it could be done if the legal constraints were removed and if the NCAA recognized the threat. But I’m skeptical that they sense the looming crisis arising from a heavily tilted playing field and volatile rosters. They just see dollar signs.
Without caps, unchecked spending destroys sport, for many schools and fans anyway. I’m braced and ready to walk away at some point, as I have other interests competing for my entertainment time and money. I find the idea of watching the have’s hopelessly thump the have-not’s, with outcomes driven by budgets to be . . . completely uninteresting.
I’m sure there’s a better phrase to describe it than “uninteresting”. Unworthy of fan energy? Predictably boring? It starts to resemble a WWE match when the outcome is preordained, whether by a script or by money. Without reasonably even competition there is no sport.