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re: Does anyone miss the early 2000s style of football?
Posted on 1/13/21 at 7:21 am to footswitch
Posted on 1/13/21 at 7:21 am to footswitch
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I miss the 60's and 70's.
Real football without bull shite penalties. QBs were just another player
I would say 80s strikes a good balance. Tough players that were top notch athletes.
I don’t want to get PlateJohnson’s anti-white bile started in here, but football and basketball became more entertaining once blacks played on a national stage.
Kinda sucks now because it seems to me that there’s more value in college placed on a quick 270lb line than there is in a 320lb wall of a man.
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Posted on 1/13/21 at 7:30 am to VagueMessage
I used to get more excited watching defense play. That was ruined with all the targeting BS because big hits rarely happen
Posted on 1/13/21 at 7:32 am to Agent K
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but I can remember when you could tackle the QB or even hit a receiver really hard.
Defenses used to be designed to hit the QB hard because it would rattle him. That went away due to targeting. Same with receivers, God help the poor WR who got left out to dry on a 5 yard slant back then
Posted on 1/13/21 at 7:32 am to BamaIsGoat
Yup. Unless one team has obvious control of the game, a 14 point lead with 3 minutes and some timeouts left is a really close game now.
Posted on 1/13/21 at 2:11 pm to abellsujr
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I blame Saban. Teams were forced to find a way to beat his unbeatable defenses.
The rules did that more than anything imo.
Posted on 1/13/21 at 3:28 pm to abellsujr
He did ask if this what you wanted football to be. You all said YES!!! He accepted your answer and then went to beating everyone's asses. Don't blame the devil when he gives you what you want.
Posted on 1/13/21 at 4:02 pm to BamaIsGoat
Has everyone forgotten what Florida did in the 90's? They were putting up huge points with a pass first offense. I looked up the stats from UF's '96 team last night. They scored almost exactly the same amount of points that season (per game) as Bama did in 2020. Wuerffel threw like 2 fewer TD's than Jones with one less game played. (Jones' completion percentage was much better, though).
Or how about late 80's/early 90's Houston with the run and shoot putting up 70 and 80 points it seemed like every other week. Or late 90's Kentucky where the air-raid was pretty much invented. (They threw it even more than Spurrier).
From the mid 70's to mid 80's most teams ran the Wishbone or some other form of the TO. The ball might have been passed 10 times per game if you were lucky. The running back position was all the rage - everyone wanted a great one and RB's usually won the Heisman. From 1973 to 1985 a running back won the Heisman EVERY SEASON except for two.
But before the Wishbone, people were passing the ball more than they did during the triple-option years. It wasn't as much passing as today, but more than the TO years.
I think the difference between now and, say, the 90's is not the formations. People were running "spread" formations as far back as the 70's and Spurrier routinely ran spread formations in the 90's in the SEC. The spread itself was invented even a long time before the 70's (just not played at major colleges).
I think some of the issue is WR's don't have to pay like they used to. People used to get hit harder, but with targeting, that kinda went away. It's hard to put big hits on WR's because it's just too risky to do now.
Or how about late 80's/early 90's Houston with the run and shoot putting up 70 and 80 points it seemed like every other week. Or late 90's Kentucky where the air-raid was pretty much invented. (They threw it even more than Spurrier).
From the mid 70's to mid 80's most teams ran the Wishbone or some other form of the TO. The ball might have been passed 10 times per game if you were lucky. The running back position was all the rage - everyone wanted a great one and RB's usually won the Heisman. From 1973 to 1985 a running back won the Heisman EVERY SEASON except for two.
But before the Wishbone, people were passing the ball more than they did during the triple-option years. It wasn't as much passing as today, but more than the TO years.
I think the difference between now and, say, the 90's is not the formations. People were running "spread" formations as far back as the 70's and Spurrier routinely ran spread formations in the 90's in the SEC. The spread itself was invented even a long time before the 70's (just not played at major colleges).
I think some of the issue is WR's don't have to pay like they used to. People used to get hit harder, but with targeting, that kinda went away. It's hard to put big hits on WR's because it's just too risky to do now.
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