Mad Son's Ramblings: Year Three is Prove-It Time for Petersen

Glad to see this is back. Good stuff

Jake's deep ball isn't a MAYBE. He was throwing dimes. Even the Ross incompletion.

BearsWiin

Schools like Maryland, Arizona, Cal, and Rutgers, etc should be happy with 7-8 wins when they can get them

Fuck you

Paragraphs need to be broken up into smaller segments

I'll read it

Doog_de_Jour

You articulated everything I've been excited/worried about the program after watching the Rutgers game. Thank you.

Edit: PGOS is right - sample sizes of one do suck. Thank you for reminding me of that sir.

I still wish we would've put more points on the board though.

Ok, I read it.

Too much is being analyzed about the offense in a game that was over after the first 15 minutes.

Sample sizes of one suck...ask Ohio State 2 years ago.

Also take slight issue with your point about the hype being negative. The hype can only be a good thing IMO, light shines ever brighter if we* fall short. Questions will be asked etc.

Also take slight issue with your point about the hype being negative. The hype can only be a good thing IMO, light shines ever brighter if we* fall short. Questions will be asked etc.

Upvoted for being right regarding hype.

Tempted to give abuse for the picture

I found that picture absolutely horrifying.

HuskyInAZ

Also take slight issue with your point about the hype being negative. The hype can only be a good thing IMO, light shines ever brighter if we* fall short. Questions will be asked etc.

This is beyond stupid. The right answer is the hype is meaningless. The coaches and players have done nothing to ask for the hype, nor have they done anything to deserve it.

"But the hype can be a good thing, 'cause if they underperform that (unearned) hype, questions will be asked." Give me a fucking break.

I found that picture absolutely horrifying.

Then you're retarded

as you say

Also take slight issue with your point about the hype being negative. The hype can only be a good thing IMO, light shines ever brighter if we* fall short. Questions will be asked etc.

This is beyond stupid. The right answer is the hype is meaningless. The coaches and players have done nothing to ask for the hype, nor have they done anything to deserve it.

"But the hype can be a good thing, 'cause if they underperform that (unearned) hype, questions will be asked." Give me a fucking break.

Hey coach, you were pac-10 favorites but went 7-5. Maybe you aren't the savior we thought you were.

Hey coach, you were projected to finish 4th in the north. Great job finishing 3rd! Keep up the good work.

derp

FremontTroll

Coach effect does not equal game management.

You'd have to be regularly punting on third down to cost your team three wins in one season via game management.

Swaye

Good write up. The "Hype" section was particularly salient. I'm not 100% sure what salient means so I hope I used it right.

Coach effect does not equal game management.

You'd have to be regularly punting on third down to cost your team three wins in one season via game management.

Game management is wrapped up in there. It is a much larger term that encompasses nearly every aspect of the team, as I tried to acknowledge. I maybe wasn't as explicit in mentioning the offense there as I had intended to be. Basically those are the areas where we are under-performing and it is costing us games.

Schools like Maryland, Arizona, Cal, and Rutgers, etc should be happy with 7-8 wins when they can get them
Fuck you

You need a new team my friend. Might I interest you in the Tennessee Volunteers?

Ok, I read it.

Too much is being analyzed about the offense in a game that was over after the first 15 minutes.

Sample sizes of one suck...ask Ohio State 2 years ago.

It looks a lot like last year which is what worries me. Sure, we did see the mentioned upside in Browning's deep ball, we are early in the season, and weird things can happen week 1 with all the concealing the playbook, etc aside, but I just didn't see anything to indicate we've fundamentally changed. I hope as the season goes on this will just be one anomalous data point. I know some people give the running game a pass, citing the Rutgers DL as being stout and them selling out to stop the run. That would be a logical game plan based on last year for them and in those cases I'd like to see us air it out more. I just didn't see anything indicating we can impose our will on opposing defenses though which is my concern there.

Fundamentally we have been on a great upward trajectory, but it still remains to be seen if the same problems that haven't been fixed are being addressed. This game is only one data point (or really, one limited dataset) but anything that has been neglected thus far in Petersen's tenure will have to be shown to be different. Year three is time to show it. Benefit of the doubt is over.