I'm sorry, but this is the kind of thing I've seen with not only Shoop, but a lot of bad OCs.
"Oh, you mean to tell me I'm up even a centimeter? Yeah, I quit. Time to go in the hole and IF ANYBODY mentions that there could even be another possibility besides playing super conservative and going in the hole, well, I can't hear them."
This thing where you think at the Division I-A level, that you can throw drives away. That you can say "well, let's just run clock and you know maybe something will happen, and if it doesn't, I mean, we'll get it back, and maybe something will happen then."
No! That time when you thought that you'd have another time in the game? It so often turns out that that WAS your time! Why is this so hard to understand!? When you just scored, you have the ball back, and you're playing a cramping defense that has been punched in the mouth, has their eyes watering and is ready to get knocked out... and you run ho hum zone reads and then have a conservative "we'll live to fight another down" third down (lean in)
YOU DESERVE EXACTLY WHAT THE F HAPPENED TO PURDUE IN THIS GAME JOHN!
I know. I must be "just a disgruntled Bears fan." Yeah, yeah. Jay Cutler sucks, Urlacher, Briggs and Tillman were all overrated in Chicago, the ownership group is terrible .. and THAT still was awful decision making.
You know the next miracle of Shoop??! He thinks that after mailing in drives for a quarter, all of the sudden his team is going to be able to open up, have a flow and get aggressive with the game on the line.
Teams that go in a hole and get conservative always fail when it's time to suddenly go from super conservative to "game winning, come from behind drive time."
Now, another counter-reply to the inexplicable defense of Shoop is this idea that "well, players execute, Appleby threw two horrendous passes and didn't have great rhythm at other times."
Did Appleby look like Orton as a junior even? No. Of course not. He did fail miserably a few times.
But here's the thing. If I didn't see better talent and more physical dominance on Purdue's side at the line of scrimmage, then yes, Appleby's failures could cause me to reasonably say that "well, with a coordinator who did X or Y better, maybe the team still loses."
But this team was lining up with Marshall, and THEY were dealing the blows. They were knocking Marshall back. Appleby's play, despite a couple of catastrophic moments, was good enough for Purdue to win 38-27.
In essence though, Purdue wore a team down all day long for absolutely nothing. They wore them down so that when it was time to run with ONE tight end and just continue to shove it down Marshall's throat AND have plenty of open receivers, they brought in/continued to go two tight ends, brought Marshall defenders to better positions and then just mailed drives in.
This team does not play smart
Did they play absolutely retarded all day long? No. What they played like, unlike years past, was a kinda smart team that had massively stupid moments.
Here's the deal. Shoop runs an offense that crowds things more than it opens them up. If you disagree. If everything I'm saying is making you say "he's wrong about Shoop," remember I said that... he runs an offense that he thinks is opening things up, but is really crowding things." Because you'll end up realizing, whether you'd hate to admit it or not, that that is true.
So, I ask you, "still in Shoop's corner" fan (with Hazell's success or lack there of ultimately being tied to choosing/keeping Shoop), if we couldn't finish this game, other than Indiana State, what game will we finish?
"Oh, you mean to tell me I'm up even a centimeter? Yeah, I quit. Time to go in the hole and IF ANYBODY mentions that there could even be another possibility besides playing super conservative and going in the hole, well, I can't hear them."
This thing where you think at the Division I-A level, that you can throw drives away. That you can say "well, let's just run clock and you know maybe something will happen, and if it doesn't, I mean, we'll get it back, and maybe something will happen then."
No! That time when you thought that you'd have another time in the game? It so often turns out that that WAS your time! Why is this so hard to understand!? When you just scored, you have the ball back, and you're playing a cramping defense that has been punched in the mouth, has their eyes watering and is ready to get knocked out... and you run ho hum zone reads and then have a conservative "we'll live to fight another down" third down (lean in)
YOU DESERVE EXACTLY WHAT THE F HAPPENED TO PURDUE IN THIS GAME JOHN!
I know. I must be "just a disgruntled Bears fan." Yeah, yeah. Jay Cutler sucks, Urlacher, Briggs and Tillman were all overrated in Chicago, the ownership group is terrible .. and THAT still was awful decision making.
You know the next miracle of Shoop??! He thinks that after mailing in drives for a quarter, all of the sudden his team is going to be able to open up, have a flow and get aggressive with the game on the line.
Teams that go in a hole and get conservative always fail when it's time to suddenly go from super conservative to "game winning, come from behind drive time."
Now, another counter-reply to the inexplicable defense of Shoop is this idea that "well, players execute, Appleby threw two horrendous passes and didn't have great rhythm at other times."
Did Appleby look like Orton as a junior even? No. Of course not. He did fail miserably a few times.
But here's the thing. If I didn't see better talent and more physical dominance on Purdue's side at the line of scrimmage, then yes, Appleby's failures could cause me to reasonably say that "well, with a coordinator who did X or Y better, maybe the team still loses."
But this team was lining up with Marshall, and THEY were dealing the blows. They were knocking Marshall back. Appleby's play, despite a couple of catastrophic moments, was good enough for Purdue to win 38-27.
In essence though, Purdue wore a team down all day long for absolutely nothing. They wore them down so that when it was time to run with ONE tight end and just continue to shove it down Marshall's throat AND have plenty of open receivers, they brought in/continued to go two tight ends, brought Marshall defenders to better positions and then just mailed drives in.
This team does not play smart
Did they play absolutely retarded all day long? No. What they played like, unlike years past, was a kinda smart team that had massively stupid moments.
Here's the deal. Shoop runs an offense that crowds things more than it opens them up. If you disagree. If everything I'm saying is making you say "he's wrong about Shoop," remember I said that... he runs an offense that he thinks is opening things up, but is really crowding things." Because you'll end up realizing, whether you'd hate to admit it or not, that that is true.
So, I ask you, "still in Shoop's corner" fan (with Hazell's success or lack there of ultimately being tied to choosing/keeping Shoop), if we couldn't finish this game, other than Indiana State, what game will we finish?
