Quote Originally Posted by Homedawg View Post
Yep. Started w candy who tried to zone us. Didn't work and they mixed the rest of the game. With that said, running it vs Missouri is the best thing we've done to help everything IMO.
The biggest adjustment for us was with the offensive line. They were confused most of the year and I think our running backs took a big step forward against Missouri.

Quote Originally Posted by R2Dawg View Post
To keep doing what you did 30 years ago is a recipe for failure in any field. He has never been in SEC. If he don't adapt a little he will not ultimately raise the bar any at MSU and likely lowers it.

As far as running the ball, MSU has known how to run the ball for decades. We don't have to learn the air raid to run the ball. He could have run the ball early in the year. j Actually would make sense to run it more if the excuse is we didn't have the players or had not learned the new O but we didn't do that. He had the SEC leading rusher on his team and we threw the ball all the the time.
So far he has done everything that he has done at other stops and it has worked well there. I'm going to continue to side with him until it actually doesn't work after three years. He has earned that right from me as a fan because of his track record. Results don't always happen immediately. Especially when a coach picks up a team that is built completely the opposite of what Leach wants to do.

Read his book. And if you have read it again because you clearly don't understand the method behind his madness. He teaches his team the plays and forces them to master them. That only comes with reps. That also means that short term the results may not be pretty. It's a process approach but once the plays are mastered it looks a lot more like what we saw against Missouri.

We weren't running the ball because our offensive line was struggling badly. That's why our YPC pre-Missouri was abysmal. And Kylin wasn't helping us because he was tapping out after every carry. Not sure how much our line would have blocked for him after Kentucky anyway after the way he allegedly acted after the game. I think we're doing the right thing by not trying for another 6-7 type season so that we can have a potential 9-10 win season two-three years from now and then build from there.