Crimson77

Not really answering the question but I recall from my time at UA that we were strongly discouraged from taking an online class if we were physically in Tuscaloosa. There were a ton of them aimed primarily at active duty military.

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What do you think LEO does when fighting with someone and THEN discovering that they have a weapon and could possibly get to it?

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Well typically it doesn't result in the individual having a mag dumped in their chest.

But regardless, my point isn't about whether the officers were right or wrong with what happened. It was a messy and complicated situation. Obviously that guy fricked up on multiple levels.

My problem is with Noem's comments. When she specifically said the guy was a threat, that he was there to hurt officers, purely because he showed up with a gun. He has every right to show up there with a gun. Should he have? Should he have done everything else he did? No. But you can't label someone a threat and justify using state force against them purely because they exercise a constitutional right, and that's what she said.

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The resume just didn't seem like someone who should be coaching here. No real notable achievements.

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This. If you look at sacks allowed and rushing yard per game, he hasn't had a top-40 unit in either category in eight years. He was a good recruiter, but not much to suggest he can coach a good OL in the current era.

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Then kids were playing from the heart and not the wallet.

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The uncomfortable side of this is that back then kids were very much playing for the wallet too. It's just that the wallet got filled by the NFL, not CFB.

Even moreso than now, back then the majority of kids came from poor homes. The prospect of an NFL paycheck was a massive motivator for so money.

We've seen it in the NFL for decades: talented player comes into the league, gets paid, and loses motivation. He becomes "fat and happy." The drive that made him great in the first place disspears.

Now we're seeing that dynamic in CFB, because instead of getting their paychecks as rookies, they're getting it as freshmen.

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Mad respect for his toughness but why was he playing?

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Well they didn't know he actually had a fracture until halftime when he got x-rays. He said basically he tried to give it a go, realized he was holding the team back, and told the coaches to put Mack in.

We fixed the constant penalties, I'll give them that. That's been a glaring issue that's made me want to tear my hair out for the last 4 years now.

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Indiana’s backs were 3-4 yard up field before contact

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And here's the thing. For most of the game (excluding the last 20 minutes when we got gassed/quit), it wasn't that the Indiana OL was blowing us off the ball. We held the line of scrimmage decently well, Keenan was actually getting push on their IOL.

They just got a hat on a hat and prevented our DL and LBs from making a play. It forced the DBs or the backside players to be the tacklers, and if those are the guys getting the first hit, the RB is going to be upfield by the time it happens. A safety at a dead sprint from 10 yards off the line can't meet the RB at the line of scrimmage. And it was Hubbard playing cleanup in the run game all day because Indiana clogged up our front 7 players, and we couldn't shed a block.

That's what we have issues with and why we so often don't have holes. It's not that we can't get push. We just can't get our OL to get their hands on the defensive players they are assigned to block.

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scheme and their assignments

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This is the biggest thing to me. S&C is a problem, but not the biggest problem on OL for me (other than Proctor refusing to get in shape).

How many times do we have OL making a stupid shift and giving up a free rusher in the A or B gaps? How many times do we have a 1 tackle blocking 2 guys on the edge, while the guard and center combo block a 3-tech? How many times is the RBs first read in pass pro to the side of the field where help is not needed? How many times do we have a numbers advantage on the strong side, and then run weak side into boundary anyway?

Whether it's making poor reads at the line, or just a dumbass scheme from the very beginning, either way, the design of protection and run blocking is awful right now.

Even worse, when we do get it called right, half the time we have a guy completely play the wrong assignment, or whiff on a block. This is what makes me say it's not so much S&C. When we get a hat on a hat, we're not getting blown up. We're allowing easy penetration due to bad scheme and execution.

I've gone back and watched film of several games to focus on the OL. It is genuinely 50/50 on any given play as to whether or not we get 5 guys who play their correct assignment (regardless of if they are actually successful in executing against their assignment).

And on OL, if one guy plays the wrong assignment, the whole play is fricked. It's not like DB where if one DB plays the wrong assignment, you can still be fine depending on the offensive playcall or the QB's read.

He'd be good as an analyst, but our defensive positions coaches have mostly been good. We really just need to improve at DL coach. Roach is a decent recruiter, but his player development and scouting has been mediocre for years.

Injury report out.

Cuevas and Jam are questionable - positive news!

Overton is out and Dewberry is questionable - bad!