Fw: RE: Re: [NU Sports] The curse of the spread offense

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

> I think they also have to consider the fact that the
> BT has CHANGED
> offensively overall.  Many teams in 95/96 ran some
> ball control run-first offense, throw as a last

Good point. I'll admit that I was one of those who
scoffed at Tiller when he arrived at Purdue, saying
that a WAC offense could never work in the bruising
Big Ten. But part of Tiller's genius is that he never
really had to prove that it works here - he got others
to switch to it! NU, MSU, heck even OSU and Wisconsin
are running some forms of spread-it-out attack these
days.

> Also, we were TOTALLY exposed in the secondary
> against USC and Tennessee, two throwing offenses, in

Another good point ... the only B10 team in 95/96 who
would have had the receiving game to burn us like that
was OSU (Michigan always has talented receivers but
never uses them) and we skipped the Bucks.

No, it doesn't excuse our poor defensive performance
lately - or the miserable special teams performance.
But -- Orange Bowl and SEC games aside -- we are in an
"offensive/passing" era of college football right now.
The option era passed, so this will too -- we'll just
see if the Tillers, Walkers, Weiseseses, etc. can stay
ahead of it for awhile.

BTW - special teams woes weren't just for NU in bowls
this year -- the game last night had some bad kicking,
as did the Fiesta with ever-reliable OSU getting a
couple kicks blocked ... plus that Hawaii Bowl PAT
miss that won it for Nevada.

Perhaps the growth in the popularity of soccer has
taken all the good kickers away?:) Blasted soccer
moms!!!:)

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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STEPHEN J. TRUOG
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO CATS!!!


		
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