In 2022 we ran Knowles’ scheme. The real answer is there isn’t any real reporting and it’s best writers just making shit up. If they had any credible reporting they wouldn’t be still just hinting at it 3 years later

It’s amazing how consistently stupid your comments have been since Saturday. They ran it 12 times in the second half on effectively three possessions since the final one had to be all passing. It just wasn’t working

I wouldn’t listen to what Zach Boren says at all. Every time I watch his BuckIQ then watch other film guys he says stuff that directly contradicts what everyone else is saying. Like in his Marshall one he kept bitching about the LBs not playing downhill and attack the QB on QB runs… when immediately behind the LB is a WR running a quick hitch to the LB’s zone and the QB is making a read on the play

Yall need to stop with CJ. He is a bad player. He got his chance and was awful. Arvell yes but he moved to LB in the spring. They’re not gonna design a scheme around a player with zero time in the position 

It’s still a bad play by him. The ball was not held for an insane amount of time. It was still under 3 seconds time to throw and he is immediately beaten on the break of the route. 

No there isn’t. It’s message board people making something up cause they don’t understand that our personnel doesn’t fit what Knowles did at Ok State. We tried to system in 2022 but we didn’t have a hybrid guy to play the Jack and we still don’t except maybe Sonny

If you ever go back and look at recruiting classes it’s typically like a 30ish% hit rate as far as starters go. The truly elite classes like 2013 or 2017 will have at least half the class become stars for the team. 

My point is every coach isn’t that good in top 5 games that actually end up being true top 5 games. Not games where you beat #5 ND and they end 10-3 or 9-4. Most coaches’ top 5 records are bad and carried by a season or two. Like Tressel had one win against a team that finished top 5 and it was 2002 Miami. Urban only had three. Two were 2014 CFP & 2016 Oklahoma. Kirby only has 2021 & 2022 and nothing else. A lot of those losses being complete blowouts. There’s no coach out there good in talent equated games

People really need to realize PFF grades are awful. Their stats are good and nice to use but the grades are awful. Howard, Emeka, JJ couldn’t have played much better than they did. But by PFF they have a ton of improvement 

Day is not remotely on the hot seat. This comment is perfectly example of the stupidity here. Go find me a coach that is good in top 5 games. There answer is none are. Kirby is the best and his record is carried by 2021 & 2022. And then go find me a defense that has shut down top offenses consistently. Every CFP team since it started has had their defense shredded in big games. The lone exception is 2023 Michigan. Who if not for Seth’s snapping errors probably loses the Rose Bowl cause their defense was struggling against Bama’s run game

Everyone is really overthinking this situation. The solution for what Oregon did is very simple. 12 men in formation is a presnap dead ball penalty. That 100% solves the issue.

No the fuck he wasn’t. If that OPI isn’t called and we win the entire national media is again talking about how Lanning being too aggressive cost him critical points in a big game. Oregon’s defense, the thing Lanning hangs his hat on, gave up 1 less point and only 30 yard less than our defense did. They got shredded. Both coaches made mistakes. Both coaches had good game plans on offense. And it came down to the final play

We were an OPI call from winning. This site really goes to shit after losses. Day isn’t losing games because he’s not a dog, the team isn’t tough, he doesn’t run special plays, or because he changes his mentality or whatever other nonsense people wanna say.
 

We have lost these games because the defense isn’t getting stops late in games, the pass rush isn’t winning against top olines, and our oline/run game struggle. 2020 Clemson we got defensive stops, 2022 Penn State our defense clamped down in the 4th quarter. 2022 & 2023 Notre Dame our defense got stops when we needed them in the 4th. Fix those issues and these games will change 

Tressel did not have a better record. No idea what you’re smoking. Per end of season rankings his wins are 2002 Miami and that’s it. But he lost to 2005 Texas, 2005 Penn State, 2006 Florida, 2007 LSU, 2008 USC, & 2008 Texas. That’s a 1-6 record. The whole narrative the last 5 years of Tressel’s time was we were completely outclassed by elite schools cause from 2006-2009 we were 2-4 against top OOC teams with 3 of the 4 losses being complete blowouts

I swear 99% of people who say Cooper era don’t actually know what the Cooper era was. The Cooper era was not winning all but one game a year and barely losing top 5 match ups. In 13 seasons Cooper lost 3+ games in all but 4 seasons (93, 95, 96, 98). Cooper won 2 bowl games his entire time here. Cooper was a good coach but he was never remotely close to elite. His teams faced the elite 90s programs (Miami, Nebraska, FSU) once and they got completely run off the field in the Sugar Bowl. 

There are maybe 2 or 3 coaches better than Day in CFB right now. None of them would live up to the stupid ass standards yall have though. 

Safeties are routinely on the hands team in the front as blockers. And he jumped cause it’s a natural reaction to a ball being bulleted at you when you’re not expecting it. We expected the onside kick but a bullet onside is not something teams really do cause it’s impossible to practice. There zero skill in doing it with a football due to the shape. And with that shape issue too you have zero idea where it’s gonna bounce. 

Day isn’t slightly better than Cooper he’s miles better. The only HC we have since WW2 with a better win percentage is Urban. And Urban didn’t have to face a cheating Michigan three straight years and was in a much weaker B1G. If Day isn’t good enough for the j grateful fan base then no coach would be because there is exactly one coach ever who can live up to the insane standards yall have. And he’s 72 and not coaching anymore. 

Michigan faced Washington who was elite but Penix missed so many open throws. There’s like 3 or 4 throws where Rome or their other WRs were wide open but he missed due to pressure. There’s a world where Washington hits those plays and they score 27+ points

In 2019 the defense took a nose dive because of what would pop up in 2020. We were running a very basic scheme. Solely Cover 3 or Cover 1 with blitzes mixed in & teams knew that. Michigan attacked it well but they were just not consistent enough. Wisconsin just had no outside talent to exploit it. Clemson didn’t have the WRs to make us pay because our DBs were better than their WRs. But we gave up too many big plays. 

I seriously don’t believe that is how you would scheme that up. If the TE goes into a route and the DE is crashing down then you have no edge. And because the two boundary players are in man they aren’t going to notice a RB or QB running cause their backs are turned. So you’re forcing a safety 10 yards off the ball to make a tough open field tackle to stop a big play from happening. That just doesn’t vibe with how Knowles has called defense in 2023 & 2024 to me

Better question. What program since 2019 is one the fans would want to trade places with. I can name one. And that’s off the back of the greatest coach ever. People will say UGA but 2019 & 2020 UGA is literally our current situation. Top program but can’t beat elite teams. Only difference is they were getting obliterated. And who else is there?

First, if OR in fact changed its offensive philosophy, confusing our defense, what did Day do to OR? 

Our defense wasn’t confused. On basically every big play a guy either missed his assignment (coverage, tackle, or overplayed the run). Also our offense had 467 yards & 1 less point than Oregon 

When OSU got a personal foul that moved up OR's kick off spot Lanning knew what to do. What unexpected, brilliant thing did Day do? 

Lanning’s call wasn’t unexpected. We had the hands team on the field specifically for an onside kick.

Same question for the 12-men-on-the-field.

Wow our coach didn’t cheat. Cool  if the refs call the correct penalty we got 15 yards.

Or it could be a miscommunication.

Because even if he’s down the official still has to grant the TO and the officials on the field can easily just say they didn’t grant the TO before time expired 

Refs will 100% be told now if a team is clearly playing with 12 men with no intent to remove the 12th man to call a 15 yard penalty. Especially since this happened in a huge game and not like Northwestern vs Ball State