IU is having a sneaky good day…..
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Fickell didn’t run one at UC and the new OC (Phil Longo) didn’t run an air raid at UNC, where he’s been the play caller for the last four seasons. So no, all indications are that they won’t do that.
You actually have it backwards in that some believe you trade defense for offense. It’s a common misconception, especially when you see what guys like Tiller did at Purdue. It’s really about the competencies of the coach and his staff.
Does air raid mean the QB throws the ball way over the receiver's head? We did that a lot last year.
It's amusing this time of year to speculate on recruiting ranks but high rankings the past few years has not turned into on the field results LOL
Yes he did. He just ran out of it more. Each OC runs their own style out of a concept. He’s an air raid guy. Every single article says he is. Is it the exact same as Hal mumme/mike leach air raid? No but he will run alot of air raid. Also, Denbrock ram air raid concepts. He wasn’t an all out air raid guy. Also didn’t say Fickle ran an air raid but every guy he’s hired so far are air raid gus(at Wisconsin) .
I mean you are right but why not talk about it positively. It was an unexpectedly better class.
“Alot”? Lol
We can agree to disagree but you’re simply not accurate that he ran an AR at UNC. He’s not running one at UW either, given their recruiting footprint for linemen and the unpredictable weather on that part of the world. He’ll definitely throw it more than Chryst or Andersen or Bielema or Alvarez, and fullbacks might become an endangered species in Madison, but it won’t be an AR. They’ll balance it at roughly 50/50, as I’m sure was close to the case at UNC. Not sure what this has to do with our recruiting, though I understand the basis for these types of posts (as well as those who follow around it).
How is it “better”? Not trying to battle here but positivity shouldn’t exist at the expense of facts, right?
Nonsense. Please don’t ruin this place with this garbage, especially when you don’t follow the program. Thanks.
Nah, just trying to have a football discussion. Hoping this place has a higher knowledge quotient than the hoops board, which is really poor in that regard.
Our average is brought down because we have a unranked kicker.
Take him out and we're middle of the pack when you go by average, which would be above a 3 since he's the only player not above a 3 and we have two 4 stars signed.
We'd be looking at probably 6 for average ranking not with the kicker in there.
Take him out and we're middle of the pack when you go by average, which would be above a 3 since he's the only player not above a 3 and we have two 4 stars signed.
We'd be looking at probably 6 for average ranking not with the kicker in there.
I think IU had flavors of it with Kevin Wilson and Deboer. And we saw IU scoring points in bunches agains a lot of big ten teams during those years. A decent OL, an accurate QB, and WRs who can consistently catch the ball would go a long way. I think the first two were missing last year…camper and matthews were decent enough when healthy at the WR spot.
Hes just waiting until February since Purdue just got a new coach a week ago and still does not have a full staff.
I’ve been posting here (mostly on Premium) long enough to know an Ordfan when I see it.
ESPN just named Indiana and Cal as having the two worst recruiting classes for 2023.
If that’s true, then why don’t you ever post here substantively? And why can’t you answer the question I originally posed: Have we gotten better relative to our BT competition?
Who really knows, thought it was interesting that IU was named one of the worse with the way IU's football fortunes have gone lately. I agree on no one knows yet.
I'm guessing they made those choices prior to signing day. Probably had it mostly done in advance.
I didn't think it would be higher as I looked at the score before posting. But I was trying to get posters to look at the average score and see IU wasn't too far behind most B1G teams.
Yet our kicker is rated in the top of the country which one big problem with recruit rankings not including them in scoring.
No we did not but I don’t blame a kid for not wanting to be a part of this train wreck.
It certainly can’t be an easy sell. Have to applaud the effort of the coaches given the challenges they face. Trying to build a program on the NIL world can’t be easy, and we’re still trying to create something in Year 7. As I said, the effort is laudable.
At some point you hope it comes together. We all know the coaching staff isn't going anywhere for 2 years.
Throwing the ball out of bounds to avoid a sack is not the air raid offense. And in our biggest win of the year against the Michigan State there were two completions. Last year we ran the no-run no-pass offense.
With our new OL coach our RBs and QBs will have holes and time to throw. I hope coach Bell listens to coach Allen about slowing down the offense or he will be fired by coach Allen.
I’m speaking of what he said(not what I saw) and we do some air raid type concepts. If indeed Bell was/is moving that way.(hope he doesn’t) this hire would suggest more running. Like more of a 50/50 split. I’m sorry if people misinterpreted my post but go back and read it. I know he stopped running some of those plays when we changed QBs. Hope we run a dual threat guy and slow down a bit. Defense does better in my opinion.
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