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Mark Stoops vs 3rd and long is a case study of incompetence!

I told my wife, just before the play, southern miss had stoops just where they wanted him. 3rd and a mile. Didn't let me down....so to speak.
 
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First 3rd and long we had a guy there to make a tackle and he didn't.

Second 3rd and long (3 and 8) we played man type and jq got beat while bringing 6 guys. That was an extremely aggressive call that everyone constantly pines for. They converted and everyone blames the coaches even though its the very thing the fans want.

After that we started playing zone that everyone hates and shut them down.

As usual with the defense my complaint is with the players and recruiting. Max is going to play man on boundary side which is fine. You could tell they tried to see if jq could play some man tonight but he was beat most times i could see. We are always one cb short and this year is no different.
 
Southern Miss was 3/8 on third downs overall in 2.5 quarters of play. 38% would have been about 9th in the SEC last season when UK allowed about 43% conversion on third downs.
 
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First 3rd and long we had a guy there to make a tackle and he didn't.

Second 3rd and long (3 and 8) we played man type and jq got beat while bringing 6 guys. That was an extremely aggressive call that everyone constantly pines for. They converted and everyone blames the coaches even though its the very thing the fans want.

After that we started playing zone that everyone hates and shut them down.

As usual with the defense my complaint is with the players and recruiting. Max is going to play man on boundary side which is fine. You could tell they tried to see if jq could play some man tonight but he was beat most times i could see. We are always one cb short and this year is no different.
They have other options Waller and the freshmen Nichols are really good but both not 100% right now.
At any rate I'm not sure why Hardaway plays field. His strengths are his size and length which would make him more of a boundary. Harrison can obviously play anywhere.
 
They have other options Waller and the freshmen Nichols are really good but both not 100% right now.
At any rate I'm not sure why Hardaway plays field. His strengths are his size and length which would make him more of a boundary. Harrison can obviously play anywhere.

We always have one really good cb so he plays man in the boundary. Boundary in college is a much shorter throw so thats a really tough cover.

In college to the field is a very long throw. We put the weaker CB there and play zone to that side due to the longer time to react.

We just can't find that 2nd man cb. Haven't been able to since echols.
 
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