Va tech has a top 5 defense. I don't know where the stats rank it but they still kinda suck bc of their putrid offense.
I'm shocked you would adopt what can only be described as "whining from the Black Bear fan base." Even OM head coach distanced himself from those stories. The simple logistics of what their fan base suggested lacks reason. And if we're too assume they're actually correct, what does that say about the Ole Miss coaching staff?
just seemed a bit curious...does he always sit with the coaching staff, binoculars in hand, calling out the plays?
What were Mett's trends this time last year, and did that change, or did that trend equal doom? I'm curious b/c I put a lot of stock into your predictions, and I am really banking on them only scoring 17 pts b/c you say that's what will happen.
We let Mettenberger go crazy in the 2nd half, but only after we were down 14-3 and forced to do it. We scored 2 TDs and then drove into FG range twice, but scored nothing in those 2 drives. The first half Mettenberger was being hanfcuffed as he had been much of the season up to that point. It was not a well balanced offense up to that point. Given a choice, Les wants a 9-6 game, not a 41-38 game.
We're talking about a team that uses placards of cartoon characters and the like to signal formations. Do you honestly believe that the Ole Miss coaching staff didn't change their calls—not only with the formations represented but the terminology used at the line of scrimmage—when Siskey joined the staff at Bama? Do you think they don't change those repeatedly throughout the season considering the ease of their opponents seeing the cards and noting which formations they represented? How easy would that make film study for their opponents? Then there's the point Ole Miss's staff said they changed their calls and terminology. Have you ever watched the action in the coaches booth? I'd be shocked if there are less than three with binoculars in any teams' booth. It's a common practice. Calling plays out to whom? Another in the box because he didn't have a head set...so he sees the formation, mentions it to the coach in the box who in turn relays it to the coach on the field who in turn signals in the set. All the while Bo Wallace has come to the line, looked back over to the sideline for the actual play call while the defense is what...substituting for a play they have no idea what it actually is? All of this happening in how many seconds? Against an offense that's determined to speed up the play as much as they can? Simply logistics makes that theory fall apart. Was there an advantage having Siskey in preparation for the Black Bears? Sure. No more so than any other staff change on any other team around college football. But, that advantage is good for how long? A minute? Does that advantage explain all the balls Wallace couldn't get past the line of scrimmage? The pressure he was under all day? No, it's just another in a long series of excuses the Ole Miss fan base invents each time they lose. And THAT'S why I was shocked you "chose to go there." Getting beaten on the line, players, the defensive scheme (which Freeze alluded to and one I hadn't seen before) are the main reasons Ole Miss was beaten the way they were. This took a minute to find but I want you to read over this article I'm about to link. Roussell makes no secret about his fandom of the Black Bears. He used to be on the coaching staff there as well...and when he left the coaching profession he did make it a point to set up in Oxford. He offers as close to an unbiased opinion as there is here... Oh, one more those. When calling those plays as you suggest did it also call all the conversion attempts by the OM offense when they were in field goal range?
