To me, this game is always the one that tells us if our defensive coordinator is any good. This is a gimmick offense, and any defensive coordinator worth his salt can get his players in a position to shut it down. When you have players as athletic and physical as we do on our defense, we should be able to take things away.
We came into this game knowing they would run the triple option, and we did not take a way a single thing all game long. While I don't have many screen shots, there were multiple times throughout the game where our alignment was so off, that I knew that Gt had the advantage from the jump. The scheme he employed required our players to be coming down hill from distance to make an open field tackle, while running full speed. While the coaches will blame this on execution, I put it 100% on the coaches.
When you know what another team is going to do, when they are almost 100% one dimensional, and you have superior athletes, and you can't shut it down, it is on the coach. It is sad. It is sad that we continue to struggle against lessor talent.
Even last week, we had to get up for a big game against Duke. Against Duke. We have real players on this team. We should dominate them on athleticism alone.
We came into this game knowing they would run the triple option, and we did not take a way a single thing all game long. While I don't have many screen shots, there were multiple times throughout the game where our alignment was so off, that I knew that Gt had the advantage from the jump. The scheme he employed required our players to be coming down hill from distance to make an open field tackle, while running full speed. While the coaches will blame this on execution, I put it 100% on the coaches.
When you know what another team is going to do, when they are almost 100% one dimensional, and you have superior athletes, and you can't shut it down, it is on the coach. It is sad. It is sad that we continue to struggle against lessor talent.
Even last week, we had to get up for a big game against Duke. Against Duke. We have real players on this team. We should dominate them on athleticism alone.