My late night (early morning) 2 cents

[Big_Orange_Fan]

Apparently the coaches think Hurd is better than Lane--but the fact is that Lane's yards per carry average has been higher than Hurd's in both games. They are both good backs and they should get equal carries, in my view.

I think Hurd is a better blocker. Which is huge with our young O-Line.

 

[Roustabout]

My 2 cents. The read option hand off doesn't work because Worsley isn't a real threat to take it around end. So the end crashes inside and the middle is jam packed with no running lanes. Compare this to Auburn who has a genuine running threat. So, if ends crash the outside run is wide open.
UT would be better to run action draw since they have consistently had success throwing.

Also, the linemen need to be allowed to fire forward. They aren't. They are essentially trying to pass block for the run game. Thats the biggest difference I see Malzhan's system. Yes it's read option but the linemen fire off like a power running team. Pass blocking is a defensive posture. Create a wall and stay in your zone. Run blocking is about attacking an opponent and driving him out of an area to create a hole. There haven't been any holes.

 

[SteelerVol]

Arky State is not a "mini-SEC" team. Not even close.

Arkansas State has been a springboard for SEC head coaches, they have players in their starting line-up that would start for the lower half of the SEC, they have speed equal to half of the SEC and are in Arkansas so how is it..."not even close"? They would be a top team in SEC-AAA. You musta swilled too many Icehouses with your buds during this one....

 

[vols4evah]

My 2 cents. The read option hand off doesn't work because Worsley isn't a real threat to take it around end. So the end crashes inside and the middle is jam packed with no running lanes. Compare this to Auburn who has a genuine running threat. So, if ends crash the outside run is wide open.
UT would be better to run action draw since they have consistently had success throwing.

Also, the linemen need to be allowed to fire forward. They aren't. They are essentially trying to pass block for the run game. Thats the biggest difference I see Malzhan's system. Yes it's read option but the linemen fire off like a power running team. Pass blocking is a defensive posture. Create a wall and stay in your zone. Run blocking is about attacking an opponent and driving him out of an area to create a hole. There haven't been any holes.

I agree there is something wrong with our exchange on the running game in that worley allways fakes the run after handing it off which is a clear sign he handed it off. It would be better if he stood back there and faked the pass.

 

[photovol]

It was clear to me that after that really good drive in the 3rd we changed to getting some practice in on different plays and players. Its far more important to a team this young to get vital live game experience then it is to score a couple more meaningless touchdowns in a game we have already won.

I don't understand why some of you cant see that our coaching staff is looking at the whole year ahead of us and not just that one game alone.

Well said, Staff was working on the running game for latter part of the game, it sure make sense as this is the area where we need improvement with this so very young team

 

[YankeeVol]

Arkansas State has been a springboard for SEC head coaches, they have players in their starting line-up that would start for the lower half of the SEC, they have speed equal to half of the SEC and are in Arkansas so how is it..."not even close"? They would be a top team in SEC-AAA. You musta swilled too many Icehouses with your buds during this one....

The only ones recently are Hugh Freeze and Guz Malzhan(who came from the SEC to begin with).

Well hell MTSU does halfway decent in C-USA so they must be SEC-AAA because they're in TN.

That argument is stupid.

 

[YankeeVol]

They beat Georgia State last year who beat.......Florida

GSU went 0-12 last year.