g-mann17

A lot of posters on this board write about Ianello as if he were a fool. This is no fool - he's a smart, articulate guy who is clearly passionate about what he's doing. TW didn't do him any favors when he stated that the cupboard was full last year - this is year 2 of a four or five-year process. Same thing I've been saying. Good to see someone agrees with the idea. It took Al Golden 4 years to see results, he went in ran out the troublemakers, stopped the nonsense, went 1-11, he was left with a team that was extremely young, 3 years later he is in bowl games and Temple is considered the class of the MAC despite not winning a championship. When he moves on, the program is in such good shape that an experienced coach can step in and be successful with only minor adjustment.

The last time we played OSU, with a Spread, we also were shut out on offense. Should have been plenty of mismatches right? Also there are never less than 3 receivers running a route on a pass play. You would have to watch game film to see that, but I guarantee you no school has a 1 receiver play that isn't a trick play. You create mismatches when a player on your team is faster or stronger than the player on the opposing team. OSU's linebackers are fast enough to cover every receiver we have. Their DB's are stronger or as strong as any of our TE's. So you see the problem. Style doesn't change that. Spreading out OSU when you aren't faster than them, makes it even more difficult to block a D-Line that is likely more athletic than your O-Line. I'm not opposed to the spread, it has its merits, but it is a not a cure all, and there are as many losing teams using it as winning teams. As to Dr. Z yes, they could run crossing routes, and at times they did, but if you are getting pushed out of the pocket your read moves to the sideline receiver and the outlet receiver. A crossing route takes more time to get into open space unless the safeties are in a cover two or the Mike LB is blitzing. Mismatches are there to be had in MAC games. We lose to osu 999 out of 1000 times. Forget about OSU. Yes they are there to be had. I fully believe we will compete in the MAC just fine. That includes the Temple game. If we have 3 or more losses to MAC schools that are as big as the loss to OSU (point spread). Then we have a serious problem.

Don't get me wrong, I believe we can win. When I say "competitive" I mean in competition to win. Not "make the scoreboard look respectable". I think we can get good pressure on Gerardi (we got some pressure against Bauserman, we just didn't clean it up). The things I pointed out are "keys to the game" for the Zips. The final point is that they are high octane, so if we want to win our offense has to do more than what it has in the past. I think Gardner Webb was the last time we scored more than 30 points. With a quick search, against FBS opponents it has been 3 years since we scored more than 30 points. Ohio 49-42 loss following the heartbreaking last game at the Rubber Bowl. (in a non OT game)

Addazio runs what they ran at Florida with the addition of some formations that make the team comfortable. Generally it is spread (from what I saw while watching the game on ESPN3, the game video is there if you have time or access). The issue will be containing Pierce. Temple scored on plays over 20 yards several times so keeping the big play down like we did with OSU is important. Temple's D-line is still tough but not OSU. The little success Nova had was from quick strike passes, but I think we can run against Temple if we stick to power and sweeps. Holding them under 30 would be an accomplishment. And being competitive is more about our offense moving the ball, scoring, and staying on the field to rest the D.

The last time we played OSU, with a Spread, we also were shut out on offense. Should have been plenty of mismatches right? Also there are never less than 3 receivers running a route on a pass play. You would have to watch game film to see that, but I guarantee you no school has a 1 receiver play that isn't a trick play. You create mismatches when a player on your team is faster or stronger than the player on the opposing team. OSU's linebackers are fast enough to cover every receiver we have. Their DB's are stronger or as strong as any of our TE's. So you see the problem. Style doesn't change that. Spreading out OSU when you aren't faster than them, makes it even more difficult to block a D-Line that is likely more athletic than your O-Line. I'm not opposed to the spread, it has its merits, but it is a not a cure all, and there are as many losing teams using it as winning teams. As to Dr. Z yes, they could run crossing routes, and at times they did, but if you are getting pushed out of the pocket your read moves to the sideline receiver and the outlet receiver. A crossing route takes more time to get into open space unless the safeties are in a cover two or the Mike LB is blitzing.

Listen to the clip. Ianello states "The blitzing late was classless. But good luck the rest of the season." The BLITZING was classless. Not anything to do with running the ball. Its the fact that Nicely is dropping back and getting smacked by a LB late in the game, its the fact that Fickell was still throwing 2-3 guys on blitzes on the last Zips possession. That is classless. Akron pulled starters in the third quarter. OSU keeps blitzing? Really, is that the only way you can stop us? There is a reason they don't allow blitzing in the Pro-Bowl or all-star games.

Get over the "style of offense" for a moment. My point was the players Brookhart recruited were not very athletic. In fact other than Wagner name one Brookhart recruit that you are ven excited about right now? Pro style isn't about size, and if you people would read up on the "style" of offense you will see that we run a multiple pro style. What that means is that the team learns 5-6 key formations for the various situation they face. So yes we can run I, but we can also run, Pro, Shotgun, Spread, One Back, and pretty much anything else. My point was it doesn't matter what coach came in, or what style of offense we ran, we were going to have to blow this thing up. Our APR sucks, our talent was not up to par with the rest of the MAC. Change hurts, but no matter who we hired the change had to occur. Its very similar to Temple. And for the record it took 4 seasons for Golden to see results 1-11, 4-8, 5-7, 9-4 (9-3 regular season), 8-4. You guys are giving up before we even know what this staff is capable of accomplishing. Maybe Ianello wasn't right, but the staff he brought in has a lot of knowledge and coached up a lot of great players. To me, that shows he isn't "conceded" as a lot of people say. It shows great humility to find people you feel are far better than you and learn from them. And there is no "style" that works by the way. Alabama pro, Oregon spread, OSU multiple (like us), LSU multiple, Texas Tech spread, Texas multiple (spread). The idea of our offense is you recruit the best talent and mold the plays to the talent. And what did you expect from a team that is mostly freshmen and sophomores. What I expect is wins starting in Week 4.

Of course there are no sure things, but the main dividing point at the time of the hire was whether you were in the "FBS assistant camp" or the "FCS/D2 head coach camp". I still think hiring an FCS/D2 head coach would have been less of a risk. at least hire an assistant from a winning FBS school. I'd take Boise State's special teams coach before Ianello. We needed someone with winning philosophies to help us learn the way. Instead we're stuck with someone from a losing program that is spreading his losing philosophies on us. A coach from a winning program would have been a lot less riskier. If you want someone because they can recruit, you don't hire someone that's good at recruiting at a top level program, you take someone that's good at recruiting at the non-bcs level. That shows your ignorance. Ianello has been associated with nothing but winning programs. In fact that is why Weiss hired him at Notre Dame. Was Notre Dame a failure? From a Notre Dame perspective yes. Would we have wanted seasons like what Notre Dame had while Ianello was involved? Yes. Weiss was 35-27 his seasons went like this 9-3, 10-2, 3-9, 6-6, 6-6. Notre Dame expects its programs to compete for BCS bowls and National Championships. If we had 5 seasons in a row like that we would be happy. What happened with Notre Dame is that they couldn't recruit offensive and defensive line players. And before you do the "Ianello was their recruiter". He was in charge of recruiting, he did the coordinating of all the coaches. His specific recruiting positions were the skill positions, and Notre Dame has not lacked skill players. Was I happy with the hire? No, I sat in Wistrcill's office talking about the need to go after a coach like Charlie Strong, Mike London, or speaking with AD's from ECU and Boise State about their hiring philophies. The truth is, it didn't matter who we were going to bring in we were going to struggle. Look at how we competed with what we had under Brookhart. He won two seasons in a row with Owens players, then relied too heavily on special case athletes (Harvey etc.) Also the handling of the Getsy replacement was awful, he expected to leave after a third successful season and when the team crapped out on him after the NC State game he was stuck here for the next three seasons with no talent. Wistrcill's intentions on the hire was to build a solid foundation like what Soccer has or what Dambrot has done with basketball (or what K.E.N.T. has done with their BB program). The goal was the rip everything away and rebuild into a program where it didn't matter who coached it, or what players came and went, it would be consistantly competitive. Why? Because its what the fans want and it is what is best for the program. Will Ianello get us there? I don't know, but his general philosphy is the same that Golden used at Temple.

Well if the second team line called it in (highly doubt) then that is news to me. What I saw was inexperienced lineman getting blitzed and not expecting it. As far as Zach running off at the mouth...it's time for everyone to block you.

He was complaining about blitzing late in the game. And Fickell had the "who are you" cocky a-hole look and said nothing. Ianello also pulled 90% of the starters in the middle of the third quarter. That is a coach move to say "you won, let's end this". Bottom line. We showed nothing, secondary looked weak. If no injuries then fine. Seems to me Ianello's goal was to get game footage on everyone.

Nova lost to the eventual champ Eastern Washington last year. Nova won it in 2009.

Apparently it is just the way the PD treats their photos. Google Nix and the same photo shows up with the normal Can't pee and blue.

This pic of Nix was attached to the PD article on Can't. Can they not be original once in their history?

You answered your own question. If there is a difference between spread players and pro style (outside of qb I doubt there is much) and you run a pro style offense, players more suited or accustomed to that style would be a talent improvement. Kind of like if your company is an electrical company you would want electricians more so than masonry workers.

Soooooo anyway.... Clayton Moore is the starter. Will see some option out of the team this year? I also like the stable of Clydesdales we have. Love to see Rossi, Grice, and Bailey in the backfield at the same time.

Um... Didn't you also call for it? No. I called for a QB to be named sooner rather than later, and for that I'm happy. But I wasn't pulling for one over the other. Nicely will see playing time this year and next, of that I have no doubt. Wasn't there a thread about a Mount Union 7-on-7 where you criticized him up and down. Am I wrong here. Oh, that is right, you're a contrarian and because this was an Ianello decision it was automatically wrong and you don't like it. I forgot. I have no care either way (on who the starter was, I just want wins). I was just posting the news and saw your comment and found it curious. Maybe you made no actual statement, but you certainly alluded to who you wanted under center.

Um... Didn't you also call for it?

Moore is the starter

Here this should answer your questions. Updating Master Plan

Only authority that is stupid and wrong is stupid and wrong. Goddell is both stupid in many cases and wrong in this case...making him stupid and wrong. What Pryor did has nothing to do with his professional career. Will Goddell next suspend player from Miami who are now in the NFL and caught up in the problems going on at the U? So having a relationship with a noted drug dealer has no impact on his NFL career? And ur point doesn't make sense considering that was years ago. The question would be if current U players who are caught as benefitting from Shapiro's "gifts" should be suspended on entrance to the league. I say yes. You will say it's sad these poor players have to be punished for "stupid rules" designed to keep corruption, collusion, and manipulation out of the game.

Goodell for once did the right thing. Pryor jumped because he had no one to be loyal to. Sure OSU says they would have suspended him for the whole season but that is doubtful. Plus it is simply a "for show" suspension, no team would have played him right of the bat any way, way too late in preseason for him to learn enough. The whole thing is to keep others from doing the same thing. Supplemental draft is for special cases and special rules should apply. But I've noticed to you all authority is "stupid and wrong"

Can moderators maybe do something with this guy? He doesn't seem to get it at all.

GP beat me to it

But that's the problem with the whole thing. Issues that politicians should be working on and fixing are put on the back burner while they worry about whether Bonds was juicing up or whether Boise St. deserves a chance at a national championship. If I had to list my three biggest issues with government...1. Not focusing on issues and not actually working. I work 48 weeks out of the year, they should too.2. Too many layers of government, why does every podunk community of 5,000 plus need a $70,000 a year mayor, reimbursed council, $100,000 a year police and fire chiefs? If you want to know where our "over taxed" issues come from, its this kind of BS. I'm not saying every thing should be Akron, but stop the fear mongering of annexation. It requires a majority vote from both parties to annex.3. Double taxation!!! - Fix unemployment by saying this "for every 1000 people you employee at 50% above minimum wage, you get a 2% reduction in corporate taxes" and yes this means if you employee 50,000 people your corporation pays no taxes. For small business owners, we won't tax the business, and you may write yourself an "employee wage" that is taxed, if you write it less than 50% more than your highest paid employee then we will ask questions.

The voters are the biggest danger to this country. Obama didn't just walk up and claim the job, he was voted in office. Had the Republicans not run a babbling idiot with moron for a running mate in the last election, Obama would not be president right now.I think the Republicans are destined to run a babbling idiot with a moron for a running mate. Go back to 2000, McCain was the far better candidate and they (I voted McCain) ended up with Bush. But then when you are going against a snoozer of a democrat whose wife and running mate our bent on destroying the liberties granted in the 1st ammendment I think anyone can win.