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There's a ton of talent in LA, but UCLA is probably 5th in line or lower for that talent these days.

It's a little weird for a coach at a high-profile program to be publicly sucking off another high-profile program. But to each his own.

It's odd to me that the thing that made Chip hot--the high-octane, super fast paced spread--is nowhere to be seen in his current approach at UCLA. It just doesn't make a lot of sense, but maybe he thought football caught up to and figured out the old Oregon frenetic tempo spread he ran...

They weren’t half spread half pro style. Guys like Malzahn, Hologram, and **** even Chip Kelly all slowed things down because they couldn’t take the air out of the ball in the 4th quarter with leads.

Doesn't seem like it would be that hard, but it is. It's been cited by some coaches as a reason they got away from that Chip Kelly Oregon pace that a lot of teams had adopted.

I think there's been 1 or 2 that have managed decent defensive stats with their offense playing super fast. But the overwhelming majority have not. That's why a lot of teams have backed off the super fast pace all the time type of offense that Lashlee used at SMU. It's also tough to bleed the...

I don't think Emsminger had much of a choice. It wasn't his decision to relinquish most of his responsibilities to Brady. He didn't make waves when he was stripped of his responsibilities and smartly so, as he cashed huge checks to sit there and look at Brady.

I don't think anyone questions that some of our players got better while they were here. That happens everywhere. I think the "development" versus "evaluation" argument centers around how much of that improvement is attributable to coaches "developing" them (whatever that means) or to natural...

If Lashlee's who we hope he is, then Mallory will be split out all the time.

Yep. I've warned our fans that our defense will likely suffer statistically with Lashlee going at a breakneck pace. Hopefully, Manure won't get spooked and try to slow Lashlee down in order to make his baby not suffer statistically.

Funny thing about LSU was that their defense (where they had the majority of their recruiting stars) got worse and was, by far, the lesser of the 2 units last year.

Overall talent isn't really the problem when you're losing to the **** we lose to every year. There are two separate arguments constantly flowing through these D$ NFL threads: 1. We have enough talent to be performing way better than we are (D$'s point); 2. Our talent isn't NC level and not on...

I've always said that was Booch's greatest gift. He had an unbelievable ability to evaluate character and mental toughness. He wasn't the greatest recruiter in the world, but he was arguably the best evaluator. He lost a fcking kid (Randle??) to La Tech of all places. His gift was evaluation...

I agree to an extent on Sabag. But when you load up on elite talent like he does you're more likely to hit on enough regardless of your skills as an evaluator. I think Sabag's genius, aside from stacking 5 stars, is his ability to either sign self-motivated guys or motivate them to play at...

All things being equal, QB has been, and always will be, the spot of all spots. Get a great QB here, combine him with a good OC, and you'll be amazed how much better everything and everyone looks.

Then we can get into the discussion of how much of that "development" was just natural physical maturity and hard work by the player versus any magic pixie development dust by his coaches.

It's not just our fanbase. It's all of college football. They've bestowed God like mystical qualities on coaches and their "development" skills, when, in reality, there is success at 2 major levels: 1. The guys who load up their roster with 5 stars like Sabag; and 2. Guys who evaluate their...

People often mistake "development" for "evaluation." For instance, Rousseau is more evaluation than he is "development." So are most of those other guys for that matter. That's one reason I like Likens as WR coach. I like his approach to recruiting and what's important to him, and I like his...

I would think it absolutely is.

Even more amazing what a good to great OC can do for an offense. Burrow was there in 2018, and the offense wasn't any good.