🏈 7/13 Roundtable - 5 Thoughts On The Big 12

[252BAMA]

7/13 Roundtable - Five thoughts on the upcoming Big 12 season. It's the Monday topic in the CFN Daily Roundtable Discussion.

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[TerryP]

Here's an instance where I read Fuitak and am left scratching my head a bit.

Note, he says:

The Big 12 took a PR hit after the bowl season, with Oklahoma losing to Florida, Texas struggling to beat Ohio State, Texas Tech losing to Ole Miss, Oklahoma State losing to Oregon, and Missouri needing overtime to get by Northwestern. Fans from other conferences, who groused throughout last year that all the big offensive numbers had as much to do with bad defenses as they did the great talent on offense, but there was a reason for this: time off.

His answer is it was "time off," right?

But, notice the following paragraph:

Look at what happened in the bowl games and who the big-time attacks struggled with. Florida won on defense and the running game. Ole Miss was able to get into a shootout and let its tremendous defensive front four go to work. Oregon won on its running game, and Ohio State, who all but gave up the downfield passing game after Terrelle Pryor took over, was able to use its speed on defense and the ground attack to give Texas problems. It is a time honored truth when it comes to bowl games that teams with great ground games and top-shelf defenses almost always beat the teams with the high end offenses mainly because they have time to prepare.

So, which is it?

Time off made the Big12 look bad...or, they ran into good defenses?

 

[252BAMA]

Here's an instance where I read Fuitak and am left scratching my head a bit.

Note, he says:



His answer is it was "time off," right?

But, notice the following paragraph:



So, which is it?

Time off made the Big12 look bad...or, they ran into good defenses?
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I think what he is saying is that the defenses have more time to prepare for the Bowl games, therefore they look better. In other words, if the Big 12 teams were playing each other in Bowl games the defenses would look better than they did against those same teams in the regular season.

 

[TerryP]

I think what he is saying is that the defenses have more time to prepare for the Bowl games, therefore they look better. In other words, if the Big 12 teams were playing each other in Bowl games the defenses would look better than they did against those same teams in the regular season.

I'm calling bull-chit if that's his thought process.

Just as one example, and I could name many, tell me one thing that Texas has done differently this past year than they have in previous years.

One.

Please.

Hell, just for kicks tell me something Tx. Tech did differently. Oklahoma. Missouri. Kansas....

The team in the Big 12 are as familiar with offenses they face as they can be.

It's like when Fulmer was at UT. You knew what was coming. It was a point of stopping it.

Any team in the Big12 wasn't shocked, or un-prepared, for a offense they faced.

Now, if what Pete is saying is true...and I'll go with that assumption for a minute..it spells one thing. Very, very poor game preparation for every coaching staff in the Big 12.