sho Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 And it's official, welcome coach Ruud. Quote Link to comment
Making Chimichangas Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 On 1/9/2018 at 2:28 PM, Mavric said: I would think there's misdirection going on here. I understand what Coach Ruud is getting at, but all defenses have to "scheme" to a degree. You watch film, find out what your opponent likes to do, and try and take that away. You also "scheme" your secondary to try and get interceptions. Give the offense one look pre-snap then run a different defense post-snap and try to bait the QB into throwing an INT. 1 Quote Link to comment
RedSavage Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 2 hours ago, Making Chimichangas said: I would think there's misdirection going on here. I understand what Coach Ruud is getting at, but all defenses have to "scheme" to a degree. You watch film, find out what your opponent likes to do, and try and take that away. You also "scheme" your secondary to try and get interceptions. Give the offense one look pre-snap then run a different defense post-snap and try to bait the QB into throwing an INT. Yes but it was all scheme and no fundamentals that caused the strain before. The strain was spectacular, right? 1 Quote Link to comment
Enhance Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 10 hours ago, Making Chimichangas said: I would think there's misdirection going on here. I understand what Coach Ruud is getting at, but all defenses have to "scheme" to a degree. You watch film, find out what your opponent likes to do, and try and take that away. You also "scheme" your secondary to try and get interceptions. Give the offense one look pre-snap then run a different defense post-snap and try to bait the QB into throwing an INT. I interpret this two ways. First, NU's defense has struggled with fundamentals for a long time. Poor tackling, poor angles, etc. You look at teams like Wisconsin and they're not going to out-scheme or out-talent you. They're going to out-execute you and part of that comes down to how fundamentally sound they are. Nebraska has to get back to playing fundamentally sound football and I believe the coaches know that hasn't been the case. I imagine they've already started looking at film from last year's team. Second, it's coach speak. Trigger words, if you will. A fair portion of any fan base will react positively to hearing certain things and I'm fairly confident this is part of Frost's strategy right now - satiate the masses. Quote Link to comment
Kiyoat Husker Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 I wish I could find a tackling efficiency stat for college football. They do it in the NFL. Basically it counts tackle attempts and missed tackles along with the other normal stats. Then you can normalize the efficiency based on either a play-by-play basis or on a per-attempt basis. I'm pretty sure we would have sucked in that stat, and Chinander's defense this year would have been pretty good. The stats for UCF are just skewed by the sheer number of plays they had to endure. Here's an efficiency ranking stat from ESPN. No idea what all goes into it, but it is at least on a play-by-play basis: (click on the column heading to sort by stat) http://www.espn.com/college-football/statistics/teamratings/_/sort/offEfficiency/tab/efficiency Overall Rank/Offense Eff./Defense Eff./ST Eff. 3 PSU 4 OSU 7 Wisc 11 UCF / 9th / 32nd / 10th 24 Mich 25 MSU 31 Iowa 35 Pur 39 NW 48 Indy 75 Minn 83 Mary 86 Neb / 59th / 102nd / 14th 96 Rut 113 Ill 3 Quote Link to comment
Making Chimichangas Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 20 hours ago, RedSavage said: Yes but it was all scheme and no fundamentals that caused the strain before. The strain was spectacular, right? Yes, yes it was. Quote Link to comment
Making Chimichangas Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 12 hours ago, Enhance said: I interpret this two ways. First, NU's defense has struggled with fundamentals for a long time. Poor tackling, poor angles, etc. You look at teams like Wisconsin and they're not going to out-scheme or out-talent you. They're going to out-execute you and part of that comes down to how fundamentally sound they are. Nebraska has to get back to playing fundamentally sound football and I believe the coaches know that hasn't been the case. I imagine they've already started looking at film from last year's team. Second, it's coach speak. Trigger words, if you will. A fair portion of any fan base will react positively to hearing certain things and I'm fairly confident this is part of Frost's strategy right now - satiate the masses. I do not disagree at all. And yeah to clarify, I agree with Coach Ruud that Nebraska's defense needs more than anything to get back to being fundamentally sound. Quote Link to comment
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