Set the bowl game aside, and the OL massively improved over the course of the season. The pass pro was pretty good from the get go.
I don't know if it's going to be a strength this year, but it's hard to deny that the line play got a lot better.
James Neal in particular made insane growth from Ohio to KSU.
Feeling a need to run through brick walls?
Wait what!?If you listen to his cyclones.com interview (different from this one), he just says he has practiced on both sides of the ball.
The clip on cyclones.com. Both sides of the ball. The one the center is holding. The left side and the right side.Wait what!?
Blocking against Memphis State was BAD.I'm sure this guy is a great coach...but we've all heard this rah rah fired up stuff before and then the season comes and it's still the weak spot. I'll believe it when we start seeing it on the field.
If teams stack the box on us we should be throwing to the TE and laterally constantly…. We never do this against Iowa hence Iowas record against Campbell. Teams that beat Iowa by the way typically don’t run it 30 timesThe OL greatly improved through the year. The Memphis game brought flashbacks from the Ohio game however. I am tempering my expectations.
That has been Campbell's Achilles heel. He is slow to abandon the run. I don't remember many games where the run got better as the game went on. When it sucked early, it sucked all game. Rocco throwing early and often against Memphis may have changed that game. Of course, the defense was awful too.If teams stack the box on us we should be throwing to the TE and laterally constantly…. We never do this against Iowa hence Iowas record against Campbell. Teams that beat Iowa by the way typically don’t run it 30 times
Haha, yeah, you're usually recruited to play the position you've always played and that's determined by your play at that position. They have lots of tape of him at LT. It's not that complicated.IMHO, it might be that Neal at OG is an experiment, a tactic that all OL have crosstraining.
How could they really know how the Princeton guy fits in until he gets here? Scouting, sure, but is that an absolute determination?
Train 'em all for multiple positions. I get it that Princeton OT size-wise seems to fit OT, but it is not yet proven. We will see.
Haha, yeah, you're usually recruited to play the position you've always played and that's determined by your play at that position. They have lots of tape of him at LT. It's not that complicated.
You asked "how they could know" as if there aren't hours of tape of him at LT. That's how they know. Could he move? Sure. Was just trying to simplify things for you.Clanton has stated at least a couple time the linemen in his room are trained at several positions. IIRC.