dualradius
Well-Known Member
The Good...
Ferentz has put a winning team on the field yet again. This team is 7-4 and lost its 4 games by a total of 15 points or whatever. His kids don't get blown out and they're prepared.
Purdue is 4-7
KU is 3-8
TEXAS is 5-6
Tennessee and Georgia are both 5-6
There are programs (the latter three mentioned above) that deal with higher expectations year-in and year-out and have had worse years than the Hawks.
KF's kids develop well, and he gets about as much out of them as can be expected, they compete, and the man represents the school very very well...
BUT
The Bad...
His teams don't blow people out when they should. Why is this?
Illinois just ran for 300+ against NW and blew them out. IL running backs may be better than ours, but that team isn't more talented overall.
My personal feeling is that the above item is because we don't recruit SPEED like the other teams, and try and make up for this with coaching and development, but this has come back to haunt us. At the end of the day, you can't teach speed. You need to recruit it. Speed gets to the corner, and guys like Arob (who is great for what he is), don't.
Our defense, for all of the good things it does, consistently can't stop teams that run that short passing game - NW, IND. Should we adjust something a little to deal with that offense specificially?
It's just frustrating to sit and watch a team not put teams away when it should.
KF's thoughts of keeping it close and then winning down the stretch (if that's his philosophy) doesn't work, as his teams are WAY below .500 in close games.
Ferentz has put a winning team on the field yet again. This team is 7-4 and lost its 4 games by a total of 15 points or whatever. His kids don't get blown out and they're prepared.
Purdue is 4-7
KU is 3-8
TEXAS is 5-6
Tennessee and Georgia are both 5-6
There are programs (the latter three mentioned above) that deal with higher expectations year-in and year-out and have had worse years than the Hawks.
KF's kids develop well, and he gets about as much out of them as can be expected, they compete, and the man represents the school very very well...
BUT
The Bad...
His teams don't blow people out when they should. Why is this?
Illinois just ran for 300+ against NW and blew them out. IL running backs may be better than ours, but that team isn't more talented overall.
My personal feeling is that the above item is because we don't recruit SPEED like the other teams, and try and make up for this with coaching and development, but this has come back to haunt us. At the end of the day, you can't teach speed. You need to recruit it. Speed gets to the corner, and guys like Arob (who is great for what he is), don't.
Our defense, for all of the good things it does, consistently can't stop teams that run that short passing game - NW, IND. Should we adjust something a little to deal with that offense specificially?
It's just frustrating to sit and watch a team not put teams away when it should.
KF's thoughts of keeping it close and then winning down the stretch (if that's his philosophy) doesn't work, as his teams are WAY below .500 in close games.
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