DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jan 9, 2012 15:20:25 GMT -5
Waiting for your DFW-style comparison of the Georgetown football stadium field and, say, the stadium for Allen High School. One stadium is under construction. The other one is at Georgetown.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Jan 10, 2012 16:09:19 GMT -5
One game remaining, but the rest are already forgettable. As noted from Twitter: "14 of 35 bowls failed to outdraw the attendance of the Texas 4A DII state championship game (43,396)." That's not the 5A game, that's the 4A game! Waiting for your DFW-style comparison of the Georgetown football stadium field and, say, the stadium for Allen High School. Ha. That comparison has already been been checked off on DFW's to-do list. hoyatalk2.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=football&action=display&thread=22103
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Post by hifigator on Jan 10, 2012 17:07:18 GMT -5
For what it's worth, there are quite a few suggesting that we are moving quicker than predicted, in the direction of a playoff. In fact, there are quite a few who think that at least a "plus 1" is almost a foregone conclusion. The overnight ratings for last night's BCS championship game were the lowest in history. The fact that rematches are not exactly attractive certainly played in and much of the Country simply has no interest in the southeast. But most I have heard think there's more to it than that. Obviously the almighty dollar is primarily in charge, and not only was bowl interest down overall across the board, but the poor showing of the Title game will hit the powers that be where it counts -- the wallet! Only time will tell, but at least right now, there is significant semtiment in the "right" direction.
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skyhoya
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Post by skyhoya on Jan 10, 2012 18:23:08 GMT -5
roll tide again
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jan 10, 2012 19:52:52 GMT -5
Does Alabama have that good a defense or did LSU forget to plan any offensive plays for the game?
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Post by hoyarooter on Jan 10, 2012 20:18:05 GMT -5
Alabama led the country in total defense this year, giving up an average of, I believe, less than 200 yards per game. This was approximately 50% of the average total offense per game of Division 1 teams this year. So Alabama's defense was really good. That said, what they did to LSU last night was ridiculous.
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Post by hifigator on Jan 11, 2012 14:08:00 GMT -5
The stat they showed before the game was something like Bama giving up an average of about 192 yards per game. It also said that if they finished at that number, it would have been the lowest yards per game allowed in any season since Oklahoma in 1986, I think. Yes, their defense is really good overall. They don't really have any weaknesses on that side of the ball, and really no significant ones anywhere. Kicker was supposed to be their achilles heal, but he came through on Monday night.
For what it's worth, when Florida played Bama and LSU in back to back weeks at the beginning of October, I said then that they were the two most talented and complete teams that I had seen in several years. LSU was more impressive, but in fairness, once we lost our starting QB, we were an entirely different team. Ironically, Brantley had thrown for nearly 200 yards before getting knocked out about 4 minutes before halftime. For that reason, I thought that LSU was slightly better, but again, it was really hard to compare. We weren't a great team ever this year, but we were horrible without Brantley.
The one thing that really stuck out to me about Bama, was that I don't ever remember seeing a unit stay on their blocks as well as they did. Obviously you can place some blame on the Gator D line for not getting off blocks, but from what I saw, it was more a matter of great technique in that regard. Give them the credit.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 11, 2012 15:14:59 GMT -5
Read my post again. My guarantee was the line would be at least a touchdown. My own belief is the beating would be worse than that. Sometimes I amaze myself with my prescience...
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Post by kchoya on Jan 11, 2012 15:39:09 GMT -5
Read my post again. My guarantee was the line would be at least a touchdown. My own belief is the beating would be worse than that. Sometimes I amaze myself with my prescience... Did I miss something? Did Alabama and OSU play?
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Post by Elvado on Jan 11, 2012 16:09:55 GMT -5
OSU struggled to beat Stanford while BAMA pounded LSU. Off those performances the line would be at least a touchdown and anyone looking at this objectively knows Bama would paste OSU by much more than that.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 11, 2012 16:32:44 GMT -5
More than anything, the BCS game showed that given a month plus to prepare Sabin and his assistants are much better coaches than Miles and his assistants. LSU had no Plan B once their basic package was stuffed.
It was just unbelievable that LSU kept running the option play when every time there were three Bama defenders across the line of scrimmage and Jefferson would pitch for the loss rather than turn it up and take the punishment.
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Post by RDF on Jan 11, 2012 23:18:11 GMT -5
More than anything, the BCS game showed that given a month plus to prepare Sabin and his assistants are much better coaches than Miles and his assistants. LSU had no Plan B once their basic package was stuffed. It was just unbelievable that LSU kept running the option play when every time there were three Bama defenders across the line of scrimmage and Jefferson would pitch for the loss rather than turn it up and take the punishment. Even if Jefferson wanted to pitch it--he wouldn't make the LB (Bama uses a 3-4 so that's contain man) commit to him--he allowed the backer to play both ends of option and LSU had no counter plays off the option look--no option pass where QB starts down line and then drops back, no reverses or misdirection, no reverse pivot option where you start one way and spin to backside,, just nothing--and LSU has some talent at WR and wasted a very good TE in Peterson. If you want to do the "comparitive thing"--all you need to do is look at this way--LSU destroyed everyone else they played and couldn't score a TD on Alabama in 8 quarters and OT. For all the talk of "boredom"--these teams scored on other teams with their conservative offenses and were by far the best 2 teams this year.
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Post by LizziebethHoya on Jan 26, 2012 18:46:55 GMT -5
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Feb 16, 2012 17:26:38 GMT -5
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