The Dude

He'll give the halftime speech from Any Given Sunday.

My honest answer would be Crick. He's had a nice year so far, but I'd like to see him take it to another level against Texas.

It's not adding up for me yet. I don't get the difference. I specifically remember Lawrence Phillips and Ahman Green taking direct snaps. There must be something different about it.

 

The modern version of the Wildcat was first used by Bill Snyder, head coach of the Kansas State University Wildcats with Michael Bishop as quarterback in 1997 and 1998 when they made a run at the top of the national rankings.[citation needed] In 2001, Mississippi State ran the formation with the QB initially lining up in shotgun then splitting out wide, and WR Ray Ray Bivens taking the shotgun snap

Did they line up as a QB and take direct snaps or did they just stand next to the QB?

 

I guess it was more of a trick play. The QB would line up behind the center and the center would snap diagonally to the RB. So that's it? Wildcat is just "we're not tricking you. We're just giving it to the RB." ?

More or less, yeah. The Wildcat is a formation, not a really a trick play. Like when they lined Burkhead up at QB in the Holiday Bowl.

 

You can run a bunch of different plays out of the Wildcat. Even pass plays.

This.

 

Green, Phillips, or any other running back that stands next to the quarterback in the traditional shotgun formation and takes a snap isn't considered a "Wildcat" play. As mentioned this post by The Dude, the Wildcat is a formation and not an actual play.

 

The Wildcat is most effective when you have a quarterback who isn't exactly the most mobile person in the world. Save one failed Wildcat attempt by us against Idaho, the Wildcat doesn't make sense for us because we have an explosive running quarterback. I mean, it could help in various situations depending on the play, but overall I think the Wildcat doesn't do much for us at this point in time.

Unless Burkhead can throw, then Taylor lining up at WR could get interesting.

I've heard that some students have talked about bringing Vuvuzelas to the game. Anybody else hear this and now anything?

That would be so awful. This isn't soccer and those things are annoying as hell.

It's not adding up for me yet. I don't get the difference. I specifically remember Lawrence Phillips and Ahman Green taking direct snaps. There must be something different about it.

 

The modern version of the Wildcat was first used by Bill Snyder, head coach of the Kansas State University Wildcats with Michael Bishop as quarterback in 1997 and 1998 when they made a run at the top of the national rankings.[citation needed] In 2001, Mississippi State ran the formation with the QB initially lining up in shotgun then splitting out wide, and WR Ray Ray Bivens taking the shotgun snap

Did they line up as a QB and take direct snaps or did they just stand next to the QB?

 

I guess it was more of a trick play. The QB would line up behind the center and the center would snap diagonally to the RB. So that's it? Wildcat is just "we're not tricking you. We're just giving it to the RB." ?

More or less, yeah. The Wildcat is a formation, not a really a trick play. Like when they lined Burkhead up at QB in the Holiday Bowl.

You can run a bunch of different plays out of the Wildcat. Even pass plays.

The only thing I'm concerned with right now is the amount of fumbles we've had as a team. It's ridiculous and shouldn't be happening. Any decent team is going to get 50% or more of those fumbles.

Agreed.

You can get away with a couple against the teams we've played, but against Texas, Okie Light, Mizzou, A&M, ect... it could really bite us in the butt.

Clean up the fumble problem and I don't see us losing to anyone in the country.

It's not adding up for me yet. I don't get the difference. I specifically remember Lawrence Phillips and Ahman Green taking direct snaps. There must be something different about it.

 

The modern version of the Wildcat was first used by Bill Snyder, head coach of the Kansas State University Wildcats with Michael Bishop as quarterback in 1997 and 1998 when they made a run at the top of the national rankings.[citation needed] In 2001, Mississippi State ran the formation with the QB initially lining up in shotgun then splitting out wide, and WR Ray Ray Bivens taking the shotgun snap

Did they line up as a QB and take direct snaps or did they just stand next to the QB?

Grandpa Snyder started it.

Damn it TexArcher! Your's making it brutally difficult to hate those ##@@%%%!! Horns!

I may be the only one who doesn't understand the hate in the first place.. sure the refs dun goofed at the end of the CCG last year, but it never made me hate the Horns or their fans.

Ron Kellogg Jr.

I record all the college gameday finals and I just happened to be watching Thursday nights. Desmond Howard was asked what the difference was between T-Magic and Shoelace Robinson and he said that Taylor was caught from behind and Robinson would never get caught from behind. I guess he might be referring to Kstate having an angle on him and catching him that one time, but if that's what he came up with he doesn't have a clue. It's obviously Michigan bias. He should be ashamed of himself for making that irresponsible statement.

 

I don't have a link to this, but hopefully some of you saw this and can add to it.

"Irresponsible"? I think you're being a little dramatic.

Week 6 rankings are done if anyone's interested:

 

http://texarcher.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/big-xii-power-rankings-after-week-6/

Keep em coming.

The only time I care at all about long sustained drives is in the 4th quarter, if we have the lead. As long as the offense is putting the ball in the endzone, I don't care how they do it.

Last week.

My only concern is the fumbles. Don't put the ball on the carpet and we win this game, period.

They might have the 2nd best secondary in the country.

Two words: triple option

Eh, I doubt it but it would be nice if we ran some to throw Texas off.

I'm not going but I hope the fans that do go keep it classy, not matter how much we hate TU we shouldn't take it out on their fans.

This.

They're still guests in our home and should be treated with respect.

I expect us to get a big head and lose to Kansas. Honestly.

Nebraska - 34

Texas - 10

Rushing - 310

Passing - 177

Rome has always shown Nebraska a lot of respect. Wish I could have listened to these guys this morning. Not a big fan of Cowturd but I'm all for people talking up the Huskers.

its hard to double team a guy if he just goes straight through the guy hes lined up on

EXACTLY! I remember it didn't slow him down too much when he was double-teamed at the end of last season.

He deserves all the accolades he gets.