[NU Sports] El Painful El Paso

[John A. DeGroat]

Jeff:  you're wrong. 

"...the classic definition of insanity" is Randy Walker's inflexible style of coaching.  Other coaches make adjustments, Randy just rattles along ignoring the flat tire on his game plan cart.

John DeGroat 


Jeff Beamsley wrote:

>Letting UCLA back into the game after they handed us 22 unanswered points
>was evidence of RW getting out coached, not a claim that we should be a ball
>control team or criticism of the "bend don't break" philosophy of defense. 
>
>Dorrell got his kids back into the game by changing both their offensive and
>defensive game plans on the fly.  Walker didn't seem to make any defensive
>adjustments until half time.
>
>Dorrell scored with a walk-on kicker getting his first start and had another
>one ready to go if the first one faltered. Walker wasn't able to make his
>kicker switch until half time.
>
>Special teams gave up two TD's when the same guy blew up the same play
>twice.
>
>RW's response was that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't work.  My
>thought is that there is a big difference between not working and giving
>back a TD that you just fought for.  This wasn't an accident.  Dorrell is a
>smart coach.  He saw the Iowa game.  He knew how that onside kick play was
>supposed to work and taught his guys how to beat it.  So why run exactly the
>same play again and expect a different result?  That is the classic
>definition of insanity.  
>
>Jeff
>
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>Subject: RE: [NU Sports] El Painful El Paso
>
>Jeff B. writes...
>Hard to disagree when you opponent spots you 22 points and you let them back
>into the game.
>
>What about a 28 point lead that WV almost blew last night?  For those who
>argue that ball control would prevent the blowing of leads this is a good
>counter example.  WV barely passes, being almost entirely an option team,
>yet Georgia came back and almost won.
>
>Our defense this year was porous, but they were also opportunistic and bend,
>but don't break.  They caused the 30 turnovers, which is the 2nd most in our
>history(33 in 1995).  Special teams were by far the number 1 reason we had
>tight games/losses this year -- bad placekicing, bad punting, bad kickoffs,
>and bad coverage.  Our porous defense and an offense that would go into
>funks for quarters at a time(see Q3 vs. UCLA, Q3/Q4 vs. Michigan) were also
>contributing factors.
>
>Next season our defense has to improve to be competitive, but it does not
>have nearly as far to go as special teams.
>
>Marc Linhardt
>Tech '93
>
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