Originally Posted by
the_real_MSU_is_us
1) No, not ever SEC player is magically more athletic just because of his logo. Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon, USC... those teams can recruit nationally and have a ton of talent. The difference is the middling or poor SEC teams still have athletes as good as the upper half of other conferences, BUT we've been getting destroyed by Arky and Kentucky who absolutely do not have superior athletes to USC, Oregon 2000's Texas and Texas A&M, or any of the other teams Leach used to block.
2) We actually DON'T have wide splits on the interior, yet those guys get beat all the time.
3) even if wide splits = losing 1 on 1's, it is NOT an excuse to watch a man run past you as you continue to wait for someone to hit. That's poor assignment coaching. It has nothing to do with angles.
4) You avoided my main point: You're implying that the OL problems are due to Leach's SYSTEM (ie wide splits), and not poor OL coaching or poor OL players. Run blocking -grabbing a defender and shoving him- has little to do with wide splits. Yet we suck at it too. The odds of us sucking at run blocking, BUT we'd be really good at pass pro were it not for Leach makes little sense. If we suck at both it's probably coaching or personnel.
5) as for hy his OL's were good the last 2 years at WSU but not here... I don't know, it's almost like he had time to recruit and coach up his guys vs inherit a poorly recruited OL and have no Spring ball