CrazyFan wrote:Maybe he should of gone somewhere else......this is a complete embarrassment today. All the hype and then we go in and get absolutely waxed by a horrible Indiana squad that will be Big Ten bottom feeders all year long. All bark, no bite. Thanks Clawson!!
I have an active bet with one of my best friends that if Indiana leads the B1G in both passing and total offense, he owes me a beer, otherwise I owe him a beer. We made that bet a bit before the season starts. I don't intend to be buying any beer. Indiana's offense is legit. This is a program on the rise. I kid you not. They're not bottom feeders anymore, that's where Iowa and Purdue are heading. No they're not going to be contending for the Rose Bowl, but I pegged them before the year as 6-6 or 7-5 and will be going into the future kinda like Northwestern going into the future ... that team that will have good seasons and wreck someone's plans big time with the occasional huge season.
I agree about IU's offense. They're legit. Not because they're overly talented, but because they are on the cutting edge with the likes of Chip Kelley. Finally coaches are seeing that playing that uptempo makes you very difficult to stop. And once you get on a roll with it, it becomes even MORE difficult to stop. They'll put up a lot of points in the Big10 this year.
That said their defense isn't that good and we should not have struggled so mightily on offense against them.
I think we're in an interesting situation with Clawson. He may be the golden goose that is good enough to compete for MAC titles year in and year out, but he may not be that great mind that ever gets a shot at a true top job. Sure Purdue might be a better paying job than BG, but I'm not convinced it's a better job...you're not likely to win there, and you're basically planning on getting fired in 3-4 years when you can't meat their ridiculous expectations.
hammb wrote: Sure Purdue might be a better paying job than BG, but I'm not convinced it's a better job...you're not likely to win there, and you're basically planning on getting fired in 3-4 years when you can't meat their ridiculous expectations.
With this comment, I'm thinking this should go in the Falcon Food thread.
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zete wrote:BIG setback for Coach and his staff today.
Embarrassing set back. Especially when everyone on this board and elsewhere preached that this is the year! We were getting top 25 votes, and then we not only lose to, according to some, a middle of the road b10 team, but we get throttled by thm. Clawson was totally unprepared and out of his element today. Inexcusable.
Calm down.. Nobody outside of BG will remember this game at the end of the year.. If we finish the year with 9 or 10 wins no one will care how bad we lost to Indiana.. We are not in the big 10 and are not going to a bcs game so who cares.. Win the Mac east and that's all that matters
sportydude1818 wrote:Calm down.. Nobody outside of BG will remember this game at the end of the year.. If we finish the year with 9 or 10 wins no one will care how bad we lost to Indiana.. We are not in the big 10 and are not going to a bcs game so who cares.. Win the Mac east and that's all that matters
NO................win the MAC Championship as well!!!
hammb wrote:I agree about IU's offense. They're legit. Not because they're overly talented, but because they are on the cutting edge with the likes of Chip Kelley. Finally coaches are seeing that playing that uptempo makes you very difficult to stop. And once you get on a roll with it, it becomes even MORE difficult to stop. They'll put up a lot of points in the Big10 this year.
That's exactly how schools similar to Indiana need to play to compete in the bigger conferences. The Indiana's of the world will never have the talent of OSU, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and so on, but playing that kind of style could eventually lead to an upset of one of those power programs
It used to be "the spread"....now it's the fastball tempo that puts max pressure on the defense. I'd like to see us do some of that. I think we have the depth on offense to try it...particularly at RB.
It's not the fall that hurts...it's when you hit the ground.
sportydude1818 wrote:Calm down.. Nobody outside of BG will remember this game at the end of the year.. If we finish the year with 9 or 10 wins no one will care how bad we lost to Indiana.. We are not in the big 10 and are not going to a bcs game so who cares.. Win the Mac east and that's all that matters
This reminds me of the Kent State-Kentucky game last year when KY throttled Kent State, 47-14 in week 2 or 3. And yet Kent State went on to win a school record 11 games, play for the MAC title and almost made a bcs bowl game.
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Flipper wrote:It used to be "the spread"....now it's the fastball tempo that puts max pressure on the defense. I'd like to see us do some of that. I think we have the depth on offense to try it...particularly at RB.
Very true. We've never really developed an offensive identity. There's innovation everywhere in college football and Ruggiero and this staff seem to stick their heads in the sand and persist with badly mistimed pass routes and slow developing zone read runs as trademarks.
Up tempo, spead, run-and-shoot, Air Raid, option and we eschew them all.
I must hear announcers say some BS or something incorrect 10-20 times a game. Does anyone really believe Clawson is/was on the cusp of landing a major job? I don't see it.
After 4 plus seasons he has a losing record, winless in bowl games, only 1 win against our rival and most troubling to me are the consistent ass woopings against BCS teams. Florida game aside BG has looked flat out awful against mediocre BCS teams. VT, WVU and Indiana ran circles around us.
Now I'm not trying to make this a piss on Clawson parade because I think he is an above average MAC coach. I like a lot of the things he has done here. He cleaned up the program and and improved depth across the board. But let's be honest here he hasn't lit the world on fire. Very few major schools are looking for a 4-5 year rebuilding plan. If you're not making waves by year 2 you are going be on the hot seat whether fair or not.
