Same concept other then the losing every game. Minimize possessions to keep the slower less athletic team in the game. Imagine if Lick would have ran that slowdown style with a roster full of NBAers. That's pretty much what Kirk is doing. People say we have won with this scheme in the past. I say we won in spite of it. We won because kirk developed a team full of NFLers. This year the scheme we ran didn't really matter because the talent wasn't there. I think its 100 percent due to attrition and not because of recruiting, although I do wish it would be a little better. But last year I think a scheme that maximizes possessions per game would have made a huge difference with all the talent we had
Some interesting Iowa plays/points per play stats
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Same concept other then the losing every game. Minimize possessions to keep the slower less athletic team in the game. Imagine if Lick would have ran that slowdown style with a roster full of NBAers. That's pretty much what Kirk is doing. People say we have won with this scheme in the past. I say we won in spite of it. We won because kirk developed a team full of NFLers. This year the scheme we ran didn't really matter because the talent wasn't there. I think its 100 percent due to attrition and not because of recruiting, although I do wish it would be a little better. But last year I think a scheme that maximizes possessions per game would have made a huge difference with all the talent we had
Cover3
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I don't doubt that it will be above average, but I bet our defensive points/play ranking doesn't reveal the same level of dominance that our routinely top 15 points/game figures would indicate. Just a guess. I'm talking over the course of the last several years, BTW.
Cover3
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Bingo. I started a thread a while back wondering if Kirk could 'go Hayden' against lesser-talented teams. Kinda did against Indiana this year. Essentially, my question was, if we're using 'less talent' as a justification for the conservative play, why are we not more aggressive against equal (NW, ISU [sorry]) and lesser (Minn, Indiana) teams? We dialed up some aggression when needed this year, but notably last year, and also over the last several years, we act like we have the same opponent every week.
Cover3
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Touche. In the end, I think that actually is more what I'm getting at: that our supposedly poor offenses aren't as inefficient as the total and scoring offense numbers would indicate, and that our supposedly dominant defenses (while very good) aren't as dominant as the total and scoring defense numbers would indicate.
The clock management issue is very frustrating but truthfully it probably doesn't cost us a lot of games. It mostly costs us the CHANCE to win games here and there but who knows if we would have actually won them. The main concern is our record against double digit underdogs. If Kirk can clean up that record by having a better game plan in place then we would be in really good shape even with the clock management issues
Exactly. our offense might not be AS good as our defense but if u go by stats per possession it would be way closer then what people think. I used to always wonder how our defense could look so average but have such good stats and how our offense could look so average and have such horrible stats. I hope Jon or someone checks up on this because im pretty sure our clock killing scheme is the answer
