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.Brown,Powell,Toure,Felter ,Lewis, Longerbeam?
are any who could come back this season thinking of shutting it down?

With 3.44 Million subscribers, Beato, a producer and player has one of the best YouTube channels covering rock music. Lot's of interesting discussions. One of my favorites was his discussion with the bassist from Nirvana, Kim Thayil from Soundgarden and the SubPop Records producer (or owner). What are you favorite Beato episodes?

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Here he rips on the Top 10 songs.

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Giving major props to Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme:

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Total buzz kill. No Metallica. Game day flow sucks.

Doesn’t match our talent level, we need an unpredictable tricked up offense and a gnat for a QB who can make plays out of nothing.
Going toe to toe with physicality superior teams isn’t going to work

Thursday, Oct. 10

7:30 p.m. | Costal Carolina at James Madison | ESPN2
8 p.m. | Middle Tennessee at Louisiana Tech | CBSSN
8 p.m. | UTEP at Western Kentucky | ESPNU

Friday, Oct. 11

6 p.m. | Harvard at Cornell | ESPN2
8 p.m. | UNLV at Utah State | CBSSN
8 p.m. | Northwestern at Maryland | FOX
9:15 p.m. | Prairie View A&M at Arkansas-Pine Bluff | ESPN2
10:30 p.m. | No. 16 Utah at Arizona State | ESPN

Saturday, Oct. 12

12 p.m. | South Carolina at No. 7 Alabama | ABC/ESPN+
12 p.m. | No. 21 Missouri at UMass | ESPN2
12 p.m. | No. 10 Clemson at Wake Forest | ESPN
12 p.m. | Washington at Iowa | FOX
12 p.m. | Wisconsin at Rutgers | Big Ten Network
12 p.m. | Georgia Tech at North Carolina | CW Network
12 p.m. | Toledo at Buffalo | ESPNU
12 p.m. | UAB at Army | CBSSN
3:30 p.m. | No. 1 Texas vs. No. 18 Oklahoma (in Dallas, Texas) | ABC/ESPN+
3:30 p.m. | No. 4 Penn State at USC | CBS
3:30 p.m. | Stanford at No. 11 Notre Dame | NBC
3:30 p.m. | Memphis at South Florida
3:30 p.m. | Louisville at Virginia | ESPN or ACCN
3:30 p.m. | Purdue at No. 23 Illinois | FS1
3:30 p.m. | Cal at No. 22 Pitt | ESPN
3:30 p.m. | Cincinnati at UCF | ESPN2
3:30 p.m. | San Diego State at Wyoming | CBSSN
4 p.m. | Arizona at No. 14 BYU | FOX
4 p.m. | Ohio at Central Michigan | ESPNU
4:15 p.m. | Mississippi State at No. 5 Georgia | SEC Network
4:30 p.m. | San Jose State at Colorado State | truTV/Max
7 p.m. | Florida at No. 8 Tennessee | ESPN
7 p.m. | Washington State at Fresno State | FS1
7 p.m. | North Texas at Florida Atlantic | ESPN2
7:30 p.m. | No. 2 Ohio State at No. 3 Oregon | NBC
7:30 p.m. | No. 9 Ole Miss at No. 13 LSU | ABC/ESPN+
7:30 p.m. | Oregon State at Nevada | CBSSN
7:45 p.m. | Vanderbilt at Kentucky | SEC Network
8 p.m. | No. 11 Iowa State at West Virginia | FOX
8 p.m. | Syracuse at NC State | ACC Network
8 p.m. | Air Force at New Mexico | truTV/Max
8 p.m. | Marshall at Georgia Southern | ESPNU
9 p.m. | Minnesota at UCLA | Big Ten Network
10:15 p.m. | No. 18 Kansas State at Colorado | ESPN
10:15 p.m. | Idaho at Montana State | ESPN2
11 p.m. | No. 17 Boise State at Hawai'i | CBSSN

Yanks, Jets and Rangers all playing at home.

Not bad!

3rd time ever ranked coming into the season. Last time was 2020/21 where we were 24.

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I am seeing a ton of the very late defensive substitutions this year after the offense makes a change- is there a new rule this year?

I don't recall ever seeing it in previous years where the ref literally holds the ball down to the play clock running out. Anyone else notice it this much in any other year?

No idea who this kid is or anything about the lacrosse program.
Randomly got this video on IG.

It looks like we were the very 1st program to contact this kid from what he says.

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The scrimmage between Rutgers Basketball and St. John's will take place on October 17th inside of Jersey Mike's Arena. There is nothing set in regards to if it will be on TV or not, we won't know that for a few more weeks.

A couple of quick blurbs on Rutgers here. FYI he believes that Rutgers at 25 is the right call he has them at 25 as well.

This is why this #25 slot is a big deal. People will be talking about Rutgers all of the time now and with the easy start of the season barring no WTF loses we should be in the top 25 at least through Thanksgiving.

Odd front- odd amount of defenders on the line of scrimmage

Even front- even amount of defenders on the line of scrimmage

This is why I had both nebraska and wisconsin down as losses in my preseason prediction thread. When you are a zone based run scheme the gaps, angles, reads and id men are alot easier to identify and get to in even fronts vs odd fronts. Its why I think our offense will all of a sudden look competent again next week as UCLA is an even front base defense.

In zone based run schemes when youre running plays like inside zone and duo which is our bread and butter, our OL and kirk have a numbering system of who they will be doubling and manning up as well as who they will be coming off the double team to get to next (2nd level defenders usually linebackers).

In the past couple weeks vs the odd fronts that nebraska and wisconsin employ, they have run fitters coming from what I would call the 2nd and a half level with what some teams will call their husker (for nebraska), badger (for wisconsin) or lets just say a generic “stud” backer/defender. This guys job is to fill the hole from depth that hasnt been accounted for and clean up the mess. A good chunk of kirks offense is reading that defender and then if he comes down hill throw it behind hin. The issue is with these types of defenses, there is a safety behind that so it eliminates an effective throw that slows the run fitter down such as a glance.

Anyway, when we play odd front teams that employ the structure of defense nebraska and wisconsin do, expect our Offense to look miserable. When we play even front teams like ucla next week, expect to walk away feeling good.

I know "just what we need, another thread" or "captain obvious", yada yada yada, let's focus on the real elephant in the room (besides our cocktail napkin sized playbook) - our lack of size, quickness and nastiness inside.

We see over and over again teams - like Wisconsin - beat the hell out of us, not because of some stud QB, RB or receiver, but because we just can't field a B1G team upfront on either side of the ball. I'm not talking about depth, which we obviously don't have, I'm talking about the 1st team guys. We got zero push on offense (our strategy appears to be to get in the way of the dline rather than push them around) and on D we got zero penetration (here our strategy appears to GET engaged with the opposing teams oline rather than to get around or through them). We see it week after week when we play real teams - our oline isn't moving anyone and our dline and, to a lesser extent, our LBs get manhandled. Thank goodness our dbs are, for the post part, good tacklers, but they are getting beat up and worn out and we are only half-way through the season.

We need to spend our limited NIL dollars on lineman. RBs are dime a dozen and WR are plentiful as well (yes it would be helpful if they caught the ball). In terms of QBs, find 2 of them per year playing 7 on 7 ball in bumf#@k Texas, Oklahoma, etc. and give them a chance to play in the B1G and let them play. If they don't perform on to the next guy, wash, rinse, repeat.

By the way, didn't we a few years ago bring in a ton of oline recruits who were supposed to be good? Where did they go or are they here and simply not B1G material?