Campbell’s Offense

[Gunnerclone]

What ISU needed to do was score 21 points over 60 minutes of FB and they didn't. Maybe try to get something done in the first three quarters so you don't have to score 20 points in the 4th.

I’ve said this before but it seems like the mindset is “get to the point where we have the ball last with a chance to win or tie” and whatever happens that’s basically a win.

 

[jbhtexas]

What was wrong with his clock management?

He ran out of time before scoring enough points to win the game?

 

[LAClone]

Winning the battle but losing the war is an apt description of the entire Campbell era.

 

[madguy30]

Under the new staff, KU has gone from 111th in offense, to 21st last year, to 26th this year.

ISU 43rd(with NFL talent at QB, RB, WR, and TE) 113th last year, 112th this year.

I get it with the namecalling and personal attacks.

It's a story as old as time.

People have always hated those that told the truth.

We've wasted an elite defense.

And there are no excuses for such inept offensive performances in year 8, and a man paid $4 million a year to run a competent offense.

Curious, do people think playmakers at WR are going to even look at ISU? Why?

So they picked something to improve on.

How is their defense doing?

 

[MyNameEhJeff]

He ran out of time before scoring enough points to win the game?

I guess every coach has clock management problems then. Because isn’t that essentially what happens when one team loses? They run out of time before scoring enough points to win the game

 

[CloniesForLife]

There is a large expanse between running an ultra high paced hurry up and what we ran on that TD drive. I get the point of doing it methodically and making sure you score but you have to have a modicum of tempo to save some time. We were consistently snapping under 10 and sometimes under 5 seconds left on the play clock.

Also the logic doesn't make sense. If you need time to score the 1st drive don't you also need time to score on the second one? Wouldn't it have been better to run plays a little bit faster on the TD drive do you have 3 minutes left vs under 2 for the last drive?

 

[MyNameEhJeff]

Under the new staff, KU has gone from 111th in offense, to 21st last year, to 26th this year.

ISU 43rd(with NFL talent at QB, RB, WR, and TE) 113th last year, 112th this year.

I get it with the namecalling and personal attacks.

It's a story as old as time.

People have always hated those that told the truth.

We've wasted an elite defense.

And there are no excuses for such inept offensive performances in year 8, and a man paid $4 million a year to run a competent offense.

Curious, do people think playmakers at WR are going to even look at ISU? Why?

Playmakers like Xavier Hutchinson, Ben Brahmer, Beni Ngoyi, four star recruit Greg Gaines, four star recruit Daniel Jackson, four star recruit Joe Scates, Deshaunte Jones, or Jaylin Noel. Those kind of playmakers at WR that chose ISU?

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

We didn’t need to do a hurry up vs Iowa. We needed to score, stop their offense, get the ball back, and score again. We had a chance to do all of that. I’ll continue to trust the man getting paid millions to run the program, not some madden all star.

With how good Iowa’s defense is, if we ran a hurry up and went 3 and out, burning 20 seconds off the clock, that only hurts our defense. …our defense that we have to heavily lean on to win games for us this year. Stick to your recliner.

Hey Jeff, how's the KC source feeling about McDonald now?

My point: stop patronizing people, your track record isn't great.

 

[cyclones500]

There is a large expanse between running an ultra high paced hurry up and what we ran on that TD drive. I get the point of doing it methodically and making sure you score but you have to have a modicum of tempo to save some time. We were consistently snapping under 10 and sometimes under 5 seconds left on the play clock.

Yes. I think it's finding a good balance between methodical (a turnover could doom it, so trying to press to hard could backfire) and urgency (the bewteen-play cycle on average took too much time).

 

[CloniesForLife]

Playmakers like Xavier Hutchinson, Ben Brahmer, Beni Ngoyi, four star recruit Greg Gaines, four star recruit Daniel Jackson, four star recruit Joe Scates, Deshaunte Jones, or Jaylin Noel. Those kind of playmakers at WR that chose ISU?

I miss X and Deshaunte. Scates transferred out. Brahmer looks promising. We've seen nothing or very little yet from Gaines, Ngoyi, and Jackson. Noel is ok but hasn't really been a consistent game changer.

 

[MyNameEhJeff]

What ISU needed to do was score 21 points over 60 minutes of FB and they didn't. Maybe try to get something done in the first three quarters so you don't have to score 20 points in the 4th???

How many times do you think teams not named Michigan or Ohio State scored 21 or more on Iowa’s defense last year? I’ll help you out here, once. Lol you act like we weren’t playing one of the best defenses in the country, in week 2, with an offense full of freshman and sophomores

 

[MyNameEhJeff]

Hey Jeff, how's the KC source feeling about McDonald now?

My point: stop patronizing people, your track record isn't great.

Oh wow, you still can’t fathom that someone might’ve gotten a bad impression from someone one time? Let it go, let it gooo.

I don’t need your approval buddy boy, my track record is just fine thank you.

 

[CloniesForLife]

Yes. I think it's finding a good balance between methodical (a turnover could doom it, so trying to press to hard could backfire) and urgency (the bewteen-play cycle on average took too much time).

I think just in general we try to be a little to methodical. I've been posting for the last few years that I would like us to run our offense with a little more rhythm and tempo. Again nothing super fast and we can still work on time of possession but I feel like we have almost no rhythm and we rarely get the defense on their heels. Or when we do and get in the red zone we really slow it down and lose momentum and let the defense reset

 

[MyNameEhJeff]

I miss X and Deshaunte. Scates transferred out. Brahmer looks promising. We've seen nothing or very little yet from Gaines, Ngoyi, and Jackson. Noel is ok but hasn't really been a consistent game changer.

My point is Scates, Jackson, and Gaines were all 4 star recruits who had “bigger” options than ISU. and Jackson hasn’t been able to stay healthy. Gaines and Ngoyi are also RS/freshman and are young. Noel had a great freshman season, a down soph season, hasn’t done much this year on the receiving game but was a difference maker in the return game vs UNI

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

Oh wow, you still can’t fathom that someone might’ve gotten a bad impression from someone one time? Let it go, let it gooo.

I don’t need your approval buddy boy, my track record is just fine thank you.

Lol you're still a wuss. Stop calling people Madden all stars when you're guilty of worse.

 

[Tre4ISU]

And the call on 4th down that ended the game was a perfect call. Rocco just needed to pull it and he had nothing but green grass in front of him. Now, is that him being a young, inexperienced QB trusting our Mack truck of a RB and our OL to get us one yard, or poor execution due to coaching? Who knows, but at the end of the day, Rocco‘s the QB, the coaches aren’t out there playing

There's pretty much a 0% chance the read is live on those plays. If it's live, we have had, in 6 consecutive years, the worst 3 QBs to ever run the zone read which seems highly improbable. While we have kept before, my belief is that that's in the call while default is the frippery where the QB fakes the run like anyone is buying that. That mesh action is way to quick for any sort of a read to be taking place. So, if you want to say that we should have that read be live, I'll agree, but I don't think it's coached that way so that's on them.

The bigger problem on that particular play is that you're asking a mediocre blacking TE to make a reach block from 3 yards away and that just simply isn't going to happen even if you have an elite TE out there.

 

[MeowingCows]

We didn’t need to do a hurry up vs Iowa. We needed to score, stop their offense, get the ball back, and score again. We had a chance to do all of that. I’ll continue to trust the man getting paid millions to run the program, not some madden all star.

With how good Iowa’s defense is, if we ran a hurry up and went 3 and out, burning 20 seconds off the clock, that only hurts our defense. …our defense that we have to heavily lean on to win games for us this year. Stick to your recliner.

I actually thought the same thing. If the game plan was to use as much time as necessary to score, in order to limit Iowa to only one possession (which, being up a TD, would very likely only be a clock runner and punt situation), then get the ball back and go for the win as the clock closed... they played that angle perfectly. They just didn't get the final TD.

 

[MeowingCows]

So they picked something to improve on.

How is their defense doing?

Leipold may just be a miracle worker, but I need to see more of this season yet to determine that. injuries played a role, but they fell apart last year. They would've also lost to terrible Iowa State last season had our kicker not had a program-worst-tier performance.

 

[jbhtexas]

I guess every coach has clock management problems then. Because isn’t that essentially what happens when one team loses? They run out of time before scoring enough points to win the game

Well, only if they need two scores to win with 10 minutes left in the game and take 7 minutes to get one of the scores...

 

[jbhtexas]

How many times do you think teams not named Michigan or Ohio State scored 21 or more on Iowa’s defense last year? I’ll help you out here, once. Lol you act like we weren’t playing one of the best defenses in the country, in week 2, with an offense full of freshman and sophomores

Last year is irrelevant. G5 Utah State scored 14 against Iowa. P5 Iowa State was only able to muster 6 more points. Why is the offense full of freshman and sophomores?