I almost didn’t do this - I took Niels’ advice this past weekend and unplugged a bit. It hasn’t been a fun week in the world. It hasn’t been a fun month. But then this happened:
PERSONAL NOTE: This is going to be short. Had some of the ol' norovirus this week. Do not recommend. Also… this game was a nothing. FORMATION NOTES: BGSU did not blitzball their linebackers, preferring to read and react. They did perpetually stick their safeties inside of ten yards, and sometimes inside of five: Like everyone else on the schedule they used a lot of 404 tite; they also rotated between various 4-3 looks. SUBSTITUTION NOTES: The usual on the OL until they pulled Hinton on the third drive of the second half the second real one since #2 started on the BGSU 2 for Henderson, flipping Barnhart to RT. Wilson and Johnson were almost omnipresent at WR; Morris only got nine snaps. No other WR got in before garbage time. At TE, Loveland and Barner both got slightly more than half the snaps; Bredeson got a little over a dozen; Hibner got in for four. Corum and Edwards split snaps about down the middle, with a handful of two RB snaps. [After THE JUMP: less UFR than usual]
Previously: Last year’s profiles, K Adam Samaha, K James Turner (Tr), S Brandyn Hillman, CB DJ Waller, CB Cameron Calhoun, CB Jyaire Hill, HSP/LB Jason Hewlett, LB Hayden Moore, LB Semaj Bridgeman, LB Ernest Hausmann (Tr), OLB Breeon Ishmail, DE Aymeric Koumba, DE Enow Etta. Coastal Carolina transfer (HS: Everett, MA) – 6'1"/237 247: 6'2/235 4.14 AS TRANSFER: 4 , 91 #3 EDGE, #70 portal On3: 6'2/235 4.15 AS TRANSFER: 4 , 91 #7 EDGE, #67 portal Rivals: 6'2/220 4.16 AS TRANSFER: 4 , 5.8 #7 LB, #62 portal Transfer Avg 4.15 4 , #294/788 since '90 #40/85 EDGEs HS Composite 3.67 / 3.45 3 , #748/#935 overall #43/#90 DE, #5/#4 MA HS Avg: 3.49 3 , #695 ovr, #78 EDGE YMRMFSPA Mike Danna Other Suitors USC, LSU Previously On MGoBlog Portal In by Brian Notes HS teammates with Sainr
FORMATION NOTES: So I heard you like doing cocaine and then doing more cocaine and then coaching a football team's defense. OSU, like Illinois, was +1 in the box on standard downs the whole game. Unlike Illinois they did not almost always have a safety who would not be on the screen in the above shot. Otherwise: OSU ran their 4-2-5 virtually the whole game, sometimes with one "deep" safety and sometimes with two; this alignment was especially aggressive with the deepest guy at 7 yards but 10 was not uncommon. SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Keegan returned at left guard and Barnhart stayed on at RT. Jones got in for maybe a half dozen snaps as a bonus OL. It appears that general opinion on Barnhart is considerably higher than I expected he was an All Big Ten honorable mention to both the coaches and media so maybe I've been a bit pessimistic about his play. Obviously there was quite a bit of involuntary rotation at RB. Corum tried but could not go; M turned to Stokes. Stokes ha