My take is this: I suspect CMC's main goal yesterday wasn't winning the game; it was getting the team ready for conference. In order to be more successful than last year, we need to establish a running game. To do that, we have to commit to it. I would say it didn't work given the stats on the running game. My expectation is that going forward, the coaches will resign themselves that the running game is a work in progress, to put it charitably. and will have to try to throw over the defense. With a freshman quarterback and unproven receivers, it could be another long year. Perhaps the new ofensive coaches are making progress that isn't obvious on the field yet.
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That may have been the dumbest thing I've ever read on the internet.
If the 3rd game of the year is being used as a practice then a very big important conversation needs to take place.
I get trying to establish the run but at some point it's time to go win the game any way you can.
Might make sense to do this in a 200ish game mlb season or 100ish game nba season.
You can never do this in a sport that has 12-13 games and no preseason.
The sad part is that anyone that has ever coached this game knows that he ground and pound only works when your dudes can outperform their dudes. If you are running out of a spread formation, you need 5 people to execute a block to gain yards. When you bring your boys into the box, you now have more defenders as well to block. Maybe now you need to execute 7 or 8 blocks correctly to gain positive yards. The odds just add up after a while. We don’t have better dudes, need to give our athletes space to do something instead of just making it even tougher. This staff knows this, just doesn’t want to admit it. Coaches are stubborn. This crew especially so.
Wow
That’s awful if true. But also an easy fix
Who at Iowa St can enlighten CMC as to what his objective is?
I get the general idea just having watched other teams run out of the spread but this is a great way to explain it, especially for people like myself who never blocked on an offensive line.
