BoSolich

you didn't ignore it by posting in it.

yea, but it's less likely we finish this class strong after a couple blowout losses.

when you run a play out of shotgun, the line has to hold their block for an extra second because you're starting the play 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage.

we ran shotgun 100% of the time. line is too slow to block out of shotgun

the line is not thriving in the current offense. but they might be better in a power I offense where pass blocking is not as important. ohio state has about 10 wan'dale's. 1 a year is not enough.

or maybe it won't? what recruit wants to come to a team that can't even make a bowl game?

frost was on the oregon staff for several years learning from chip kelly before he took over the playcalling. it's the same offense. it does not work in the physical cold big 10. especially with average talent.

huh... we have the 7th best class in the big 10 right now.

yea, but better talent isn't going to magically appear next year. we have an average recruiting class right now. we need a more basic offense that less athletic players can thrive in.

yea. it's outdated. how's UCLA's offense looking with chip kelly? the creator of this joke of an offense.

because that's the only chance for this outdated offense to work. unless we see a talent upgrade (which i don't see happening any time soon), we need a more basic power run offense like wisconsin/iowa. that's our only chance to succeed in the near future.

it's clear you can still do it. wisconsin literally stole it from us(Alvarez), and have been a top 15 team for the last 10-15 years. with average recruiting classes as well. thoughts?

so we aren't 4-0, but i was mostly right!

i was right. 10 months ago.

i will say that if we don't cover the 14 against NIU this weekend, i will be concerned. we are due for a complete performance saturday and if it doesn't happen then we might not be very good.

not really frosts fault though. you can't recruit a full team with 2 recruiting cycles. he deserves more time to add talent. martinez and washington are a nice start to build off of.

i mean it's year 2, and we don't have ucf's schedule... so i'm not sure what you were expecting.

colorado has a legit offense and we held them scoreless in the 1st half. without some flukey turnovers by martinez, we win this game easily. heck, if our kicker doesn't get hurt (which almost never happens) we probably win this game. i definitely think we're missing some pieces to be a great team, but i still think we're a bowl team this year with a bright future.

all i'm saying is let's wait to call him one of the best to ever play here. you could have said the same thing after taylor martinez's freshman year. he's off to a rocky start this season. 118 qbr against south alabama, and 3 turnovers and 6 sacks against colorado.

so do you not think the lineman at other schools work hard in the weight room?

bruh...he's good, but clearly the media hyped him up way more than he deserved. we nearly lost to south alabama because of his poor play and now we lose to colorado because he had 3 turnovers. his career record is 5-8, so no i don't think he's the best qb we've ever had

-mills/wandale/other newcomers have not been able to replace what zigbo/morgan gave us last year. -martinez is in a sophomore slump, but i believe he's going to get out of it. -mo washington looked special today. JD was good as usual -defense has clearly improved, but got tired at the end. -we might win this game if our starting kicker doesn't get hurt. which happens to maybe 5 teams a year? all in all i think we are still a 6-8 win team. i think we need a few more playmakers on offense to step up before we are truly a great team.

ziggy and morgan were great players, and their replacements have not shown much. mills is basically a worse version of ziggy, and wandale is basically just a worse version of spielman. i haven't seen anybody that replaces what stanley brought. and martinez was terrible in game 1 and a turnover machine in game 2. not sure what to attribute that to other than maybe a sophomore slump?

if we don't see major improvement next week on offense, this could be a long season. i wasn't buying all the preseason hype, but i never thought we'd do this bad on offense today.

everything is lined up for us to win 7+ games which is why i'm saying it would be devastating to have a losing season.