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Would someone explain to me how Indiana won the Natty with a bunch of 3 star players? Coaching? Player development? Team cohesiveness? Riding the back of one player (Mendoza)? All of the above?
They won with a coach who is one of the best strategists I’ve seen since Tom Landry and a mature team roster that was made up of 80% transfer players (developed elsewhere, not immature full of themselves 4 and 5* 17and 18 year old high school players). The model Cignetti used is the same no nonsense model Harbaugh used to get Michigan over the hump, a disciplined and solidly developed O and D line, elite players at the skill positions and complete buy in of the system. To your point I believe that Kirby has finally realized that it isn’t entirely about jimmies and joes and average coaching. A lesser talented 3* properly developed and coached will stand toe to toe with a 5* opponent in the right scheme. The last 3 national champs had zero top 3 recruiting classes since 2022.
on over abundance of 5th and 6th year players.
Pillow soft schedule
Heisman QB
Got to dodge Georgia
great coaching
We beat Bama the second time with Bobo and Gunner. We should have beat them the first time if both our safety and DB don’t whiff on a Hail Mary type throw. We should have beaten Ole Miss on the goal line with a chance to take the lead. Defense then allows a long completion again. Championship teams find ways to win those games not muck them up. Kirby going for it on 4th down inside your own 30? Indiana pulled games out like that all year!
Pillow soft schedule ?
@ Pn St
@Oregon
Smoked Oregon in ATL
Oh St
Smoked Bama in Pasadena
@Miami defacto home game
All wins, credit given where credit due… or something like that
old dominion
Kennesaw state
Indiana state
Iowa
Michigan state
UCLA
Maryland
Wisconsin
Purdue
Penn state after losing their starting QB and fired their coach.
So yes…pillow soft schedule. They were the best team, deserved to win. Teams need a little luck along the way. Indiana had theirs.
Pillow soft or not…6 and oh versus top25 teams… 4 of them on the road. That's one less top 25 than we played with 2 less losses.
After Bennett, who was drafted, which of our QBs have even declared for the draft? Oh, yeah: Beck (don't give me the "he wasn't our quarterback" line; he made a name for himself at UGA, not MIA), who was picked #65 overall. After that? Stockton is still playing. So, that's not a metric you can even start to use.
Someone did mention it. I'd just seen it in one of the articles on here in just the past day.
Brock Vandagriff retired from football. I don’t think Gunner will go any higher than Stetson did if he goes at all. We can compete with the types of QBs we get, but it’s not likely we bring in the big time talent who go first round. Our system just doesn’t highlight them enough.
and maybe we’d have zero losses if half of our conference games were glorified scrimmages
Maybe…maybe not. For a conference full of glorified scrimmage teams, they have what, 3 straight natties by 3 different programs?
Say what you want, NIL and the TP have made the SEC…just another conference.
oh so the top programs play similar pillow soft schedule in expanded playoffs makes them the superior conference? News to me.
Never said superior did I? But perhaps arguable based on head to head results, the Big Ten won three (Indiana, Iowa, Illinois) while the SEC won one (Texas over Michigan). Sounds like our pillow may be getting a little softer these days.
6 notifications from you, wow, lucky me. Do you like what I’ve done with that space I occupy inside your head?
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