pttigris

Not surprising.

I'm pretty sure his dad had a decent gig as an HC there. Coaching is an old boy's club you know.

The Sugar Bowl could be more like the Cap One.

You could play the game in City Park Stadium and route all of the gameday traffic through the lower 9th ward.

Give out all of the old Hibernia bank scratch pads left over from the sale as bowl favors and hand out SRO passes to Pat O'Briens.

You'd never know you weren't at the Crap One.

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Gary is a big part of the reason that the QB's are a major problem...but they are a major problem.

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With the exception of Cam Newton, and maybe Aaron Murray, any QB in the SEC would be a "major problem" in this offense. The offense itself is a major problem, particularly the passing game. Get rid of Gary and get somebody competent and our QB's will get more talented all of a sudden, just like they did a few times this year when we actually took advantage of the defense being used against us. Our offense is a grab bag with no rhyme or reason for the most part.

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At least, 85% of the offense we ran in 2007 was the offense from 2006. The other 15% was new wrinkles by Crowton.



I would put it more 65/35 Crowton...Crowton kept the power running game

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Crowton did not install his beloved "option routes" until the next season. He mentioned it often in the spring because he thought that was going to make the O much better. He left the routes alone in '07 because our WR's, Flynn, and RP were knew them so well. Since his changes to the pass game it has never been very effective. The biggest change from Jimbo in '07 was in the blocking scheme. More power blocking and less zone. Miles and Searles did not get along.

It was closer to 85% than 35%. Suffice to say it was largely Jimbo's passing scheme. Most of Crowton's influence was in the Pistol and the gadgets.

The ND-MSU game that year was billed as one of the many games of the century and the two teams were loaded with next level stars, coached by Ara Parseghian and Duffy Daugherty. The year before Alabama had stolen an NC in the Orange Bowl when every team ahead of them lost and they beat Nebraska that night and were voted #1 the next day.

The MSU-ND game was the "tie one for the Gipper" game when Ara ran out the clock to protect the tie at the end of the game because he knew that the Irish would get #1 in the polls if they did not lose. ND did not play bowls at that time so when they won the rest of their games the NC was decided. I think that after the players on all three teams had finished their NFL careers that Michigan State (Bubba Smith etc) had the best collection of players that year.

I had a field pass for the Alabama-Nebraska Sugar Bowl that year and watched both teams warm up and play the first quarter up close. NE was huge, fat, and slow. Alabama was very small and quick and just annihilated the Huskers 34-7 if I recall. Ray Perkins and Ken Stabler were stars of the game. It was the last time Bob Devaney would ever show up with a slow Nebraska team on the big stage. The next time they played Alabama for the NC in the post season he brought a team loaded with speed from California and the usual beef from the Midwest and killed Alabama to finish their second NC in a row. They had won the NC the year before by squeaking by LSU 17-15 (may have been 17-13??) in the Orange Bowl.

The best argument for Ole Miss failure is tradition. There is a difference between a 4-5 loss season being considered an abberation as it has been with Fla and LSU, and being considered a sign of great things to come, as it is at OM.

Those who think OM will be a big factor have one "H" on their side. It's called "hype." "History" of performance, not so much.

My son teaches at OM and he reports that the old timers are excited in a realistic sort of way. Disappointment has never been very far around the corner at OM and they have been here before. I think they'll find their level.

Since Jared seems to be getting better against all types of pitching with every at bat you can't say they are wrong. His dive for the single that sent the runner to 3rd is just a display of that lack of experience. He is a big time major league prospect who is improving rapidly and is a lot of fun to watch. Pitchers fear the guy at the plate and on the bases.

As Bad Cat said, if you have somebody like that to talk about during the down time why not? It could be worse, they obviously have not figured out that Chad Jones has a NC ring too!

I'd like to see Jared at clean-up and Micah moved down to his position. Ochinko is swinging a better bat right now than Landry, who I can't recall getting it out of the infield in the series.

We have needed to change the batting order for awhile but I think Manieri was sitting pat on his winning streak. It's obvious that Gibbs is not a cleanup hitter. The Texas pitchers all show fear of Mitchell and they won't be able to pitch around Dean and give him garbage.

Lets see Keuchel get a 20-30 pitch inning. :nana:

Go Hoos - Go Hogs - keep going and going

CountryVolFan...

Thanks for the solid post from someone with no dog in the hunt. Be careful using reasonable arguments on the Rant though... they're borderline illegal.