Getting teams to play over their heads is the only way to make a splash and get better recruiting. It's a fantasy to think you're going to get better by recruiting better when you're not giving top recruits reason to commit to you. They want to see results not just hear a lot of open promises about being good sometime down the road.
Sooners are doing poorly this year , but their 3 loses are to current top 25 programs
They were losses but Bean seems capable enough in his 1.5 games. They scored 42 today, that’s pretty good. If the offense is productive like that, 1 more win somewhere is very possible.
Then, let's not bring up losing the starting QB when the hero coach to some of this board falters. After all, it's on the coach when the team loses.
Isn't Oklahoma loaded with talent, though? Aren't we always being told that's all that matters?
This is such bullsh*t…. UConn has one of the most storied basketball programs in history as well, they can’t do ANYTHING to get the football program rolling.
OU’s offense is very capable when Gabriel is playing, but not much behind him this year. In that Texas shutout, they played a good portion of that game in the wildcat. Don’t know what Lebby was thinking but tells you what he feels about the backup. Kansas seems to have a more capable backup than OU and some other teams. That’s surprising in itself. They’ve still been productive offensively in the 1.5 games Bean has played, even if they were losses.
If you're going to lose by 3 points 38 to 35 is certainly a lot more interesting than 13 to 10. Or can't you tell by how full our stadium always is?
C’mon now….at least give Ash some credit. I think a precocious 10 year old could outcoach him. But clear edge to Ash compared to 3 year old. I’ll take Ash laying 13.5
If you have a team capable of scoring points a close game is exciting because of course they can win and even if they're behind by 2 or 3 TDs they might come back. The 13 to 10 team can't score so you know that as soon as you fall behind odds are you're going to lose, which is what almost always happens with Schiano teams. That's the difference between strong offense/weak defense and weak offense/strong defense. With the strong offense there is always hope, with the weak offense hope dies as soon as you lose the lead. How many Schiano games have I watched where the team falls behind and I get to watch 2 to 3 quarters of hopeless football as the defense eventually wears down? Too many to count.
That's the thing it may look like the B10 has tough defenses but partially that's because they don't face offenses like you might see in the B12. It's part of why I've always stuck by the most games are potentially winnable for us outside of OSU (and maybe Michigan), despite how poorly we look on offense. The B12 may look like they have lousy defenses but that's partially because they face fast moving productive offenses often unlike the B10. OSU and maybe a little Purdue and Maryland (both inconsistent) and that's about it. Even the SEC supposed defensive conference have had a bunch of productive offenses now from UGA,Alabama to Tenn, Ole Miss, Miss St, Ark, LSU etc..LSU's champ season was on the back of historic offense. Tenn's performance this year is on the back of highly productive offense.
Here you go, see these tweets as an example. Strong offense and mediocre defense is chance, not a guarantee, to make noise and outperform your status on the landscape.
Don't you think that means the same thing in this context.. comparing Schiano to Leipold as HC? No one said the "haters" hate GS as a human being.
I’m the one who started this thread and in fact I really like Greg Schiano as head coach. I like that he took. Decisive action regarding the offensive woes and had a back up plan in place. He fired Gleason with class and dignity, and he didn’t have to belittle Sean to do it. I have seen Greg give his post game wrap ups and he has a more mature confidence and demeanor than GS 1.0. I have more confidence in Greg now than I did just a week ago. Just because he is not as far along in development as Lance Leipold steam, doesn’t mean he cannot produce good to great teams in the future.
Respectfully, UConn is not a good example for your point
Yea they did but it was when DeVito went out and an incapable Sitkowski came in. DeVito came back for the Minnesota game and without him I don't think they would've won and certainly not as easily as they did.
