Diego Ricardo

It is wild how our biggest guys in the front court are the absolute worst on the boards. Sherrell is basically Bama Mark Blount right now. Got a nice offensive game as a stretch 5 with real center size (at least for college, maybe not NBA) but he's borderline unplayable because he provides no presence on the boards or rim protection. Yes, I know he's averages 1 block/game right now but that is a great lesson in the limitations of means as a statistical measure.

This will probably be my dead horse to beat this season but Aiden Sherrell sacking up and playing to his body type is likely the difference between a great team and a net cutting one.

Gonzaga is going to be another tough matchup but they aren't nearly as big and long as Illinois or Purdue. Would be a great time for our 5s to make an imprint on a game. Bristow, Allen, and TBB are going to have a helluva time with Ike and Huff.

Brooks will probably be our best receiver next year though if Horton returns he may make a year 1 to 2 jump.

Fox Sports is one of the more shameless sports channels about shilling their biases predicated on who they carry on their channels.

The thing with RW is he’s really in the midst of a 1.5 season slump. At this point it ain’t a slump, it’s a ceiling. He’s a great talent in some respects but I don’t think he’s got the trajectory of some of our other great WRs.

The explanation from DeBoer was fine by me: their punter was inconsistent with his range so they put two back to mitigate giving them free yards on a bounce. The fact a fumble happened was on Williams trying to do too much. Punters have to secure possession above all else, the returns have to be measured against risk. Williams can’t get into a crowd and be shuffling his feet and juking but more than anything he needed to sure up his hold when he got into that crowd. A great punter doesn’t get themselves into those situations.

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Nope. I bet they won't put bama in if we lost seccg. That's 3 losses and they don't like us.

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Losing to a bad team in September doesn't hurt you if you're 2014 Ohio State. Curious.

All the fretting comes down to “what if we lose”

Buddy, the solution is simple: don’t.

The only solution is to bring back the formula and end committee frickery. Direct human interface on this is too ripe for horse trading.

If there is any failure by the coaches in that game, it was mainly the execution and game situation understanding that prevents those turnovers. The pick six is whatever, probably due to a missed DPI and Ty made the correct read. The two fumbles were poor understanding of the game situation. Simpson has got to get the ball out when a free rusher is coming and broadly speaking know the lifespan of a pocket. Ryan Williams got to stop trying to extend a play beyond its shelf life too. He’s had several fumbles in his career that amount to “a small guy like him can’t be juking around 3 or more defenders.”

Trying to do too much is what lost us this game. Oklahoma won this game by going into their shell like a turtle on offense and just waiting for us to self destruct due to our own greediness and poor decision-making.

Whatever they’re saying isn’t getting through well enough to the players.