TSiO Episode #42: We Lost to Stanford; Why Nothing has Changed With Us
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I had a long winded analysis all ready to post, but @Dennis_DeYoung gave away the punchline: Pete needs to evaluate himself honestly, take a little humble pie, and make the appropriate changes.
I LOVE his management, the player development is great, but there’s an arrogance of program not purpose that limits our upside.
There were hints early, not going for it on 4th down against Oregon for example, that signaled the process was paramount.
At the start of the year, we had a poll asking whether we were just happy to be here or were you all in for winning now after one year. I was just happy to be here after 15 years, but that would last just 1 more year. Well, TSIO. Win. -
Scheme by itself doesn’t trump talent ... never claimed as muchAEB said:
Scheme takes you only so far.Tequilla said:
If you believe that then you are an idiot ... both is the unicorn ... scheme can help hide talentAEB said:Explosive plays are the result of talent not scheme.
When you play real teams, and we’ve seen this over and over, our scheme doesn’t hide our holes. Our lack of talent is exploited. The fact that our inability to generate explosive plays (in the passing game especially) due to the lack of explosive talent is repeatedly exposed.
I’m happily an idiot if this is some how wrong. I don’t aspire to be OK St.
But our talent isn’t dog shit and quality scheme + plan + identity can go a long way (at least in the P12) ...
If you go back to the Semi’s last year against Alabama ... we did a lot of good things with scheme early in the game that earned us a TD and we were driving again until Ross fumbled. Then the scheme was gone and we were generally clueless.
Nobody is questioning needing to up the talent level nationally ... but we definitely need to increase our scheme as well because Smith is not getting the most out of what we have to work with ... and that’s scheme in a nutshell -
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I had a stats prof that would absolutely go bonkers with the same way people try to misrepresent information.
His example was being told some stupid stat like "when the Vancouver Canucks are leading going into the third period theynwin 62.5% of the time!"
As Dennis would say "motherfucker! Of course they would win the majority of the time because if you're leading into the 3rd. That means you're either a better team or you're doing something right!"
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Coaches ARE stubborn but not always in the areas we want them to be stubborn
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I love the pod but Jesus this Stanford loss has fucked you guys up. Miami is better and much cooler and blacker than us but saying only two or three kids on our team would start for Miami is absurd. Yank the turnover chain out of your ass.
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Of the currently healthy, name names outside of Vea, Gaines, and maybe Taylor Rapp and Gaskin, who would start for Miami.Edwin_Bambino said:I love the pod but Jesus this Stanford loss has fucked you guys up. Miami is better and much cooler and blacker than us but saying only two or three kids on our team would start for Miami is absurd. Yank the turnover chain out of your ass.
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Massive hyperbole just doesn’t sound like something that Pepsi and DDY would ever doEdwin_Bambino said:I love the pod but Jesus this Stanford loss has fucked you guys up. Miami is better and much cooler and blacker than us but saying only two or three kids on our team would start for Miami is absurd. Yank the turnover chain out of your ass.
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Who you got as the fourth?Edwin_Bambino said:I love the pod but Jesus this Stanford loss has fucked you guys up. Miami is better and much cooler and blacker than us but saying only two or three kids on our team would start for Miami is absurd. Yank the turnover chain out of your ass.
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Ryan BowmanCokeGreaterThanPepsi said:
Who you got as the fourth?Edwin_Bambino said:I love the pod but Jesus this Stanford loss has fucked you guys up. Miami is better and much cooler and blacker than us but saying only two or three kids on our team would start for Miami is absurd. Yank the turnover chain out of your ass.
