I want to see Holtz put to the test of what he can do in a fairly even matched situation with his back to the wall knowing that his coaching will have to overcome some player position weaknesses. Second, I want the players rewarded with what they’ve had to endure this year. Third, we clearly need the practice and experience. Fourth, it’ll give me something to yell about on TV that day.
Doesn’t Ga Southern run the option? We will get throttled.
Go Dawgs!!!!
When Bama ran the wishbone under Bear Bryant they were practically unstoppable. But, Notre Dame beat them twice by scores of 7-0 and 13-11. Ara Parseghian was asked how they did it. After the second game, and no other games vs. Bama scheduled, Parseghian said "we used assignments." A defender was assigned to each back, 3 RBs and 1 QB. Wherever they went, our "shadow" went. That left 7 other defenders to react to plays as they developed, but even then they had very strict, disciplined "areas of assignment." Kind of like 4 guys playing man-to-man, and 7 guys playing zone. The result was Bama was not able to bust big plays, and had to rely on grinding it out. Drives would stall.
Defense has to be very disciplined against the option. Stay in your lanes, stay wider than the offense, and I like the idea of using "shadows" like Parseghian did. Of course, if you have a DL that can get off blocks and get penetration, that disrupts the option.
I thought I had seen that we've been good at getting other teams behind schedule (forcing lots of 3rd and longish plays) but not so good at giving up lots of 3rd and longish plays. I'm sure TCU will have skewed all our stats the wrong way across the board, this would have been before that game.
But if we can do that with an option team that really relies on staying on schedule, that'd be a good sign for us. It is encouraging that we've had such great LB play this year when I'm not sure we expected that.
We looked terrible against a good TCU team
Georgia Southern BARELY beat ULM..........We win
They beat UMass 41-10. Every other game they have played has been a very close win or loss, except for a 2 TD loss to Coastal.