4 of the top 10 lost to unranked opponents and in those games even the unranked teams didn't play great. Syracuse was great in spots, but made a ton of the mistakes that normally get you beat by any top 10 team. LSU didn't play good ball. Arizona St still has a completely broken offense and beat a Top 10 team anyway...that shouldn't happen. And Chris Peterson, who is lauded as one of the smartest guys in CFB made boneheaded decisions that made me think Gus was in his headset.
Florida keeps going to ATL for the title game with no offense, no QB play and generally is laughed at by anyone who has followed or covered the game for a few decades. You have quite a few ranked teams that have fan bases who would love to fire their coaches on any given week and it's not because they are impatient idiots...it's because their HC's often look like idiots themselves.
What broke football? We've got nearly every HC out there making $3-5 million per season minimum. This product is craptastic while programs have more support staff than they used to, more sports science and advanced stats than they've ever used and all I'm seeing is 90% of games that look like teams that don't practice being coached by men that get paid a fortune to not know how to use TO's, can't understand basic situational football and often can't get their special teams onto the field quickly enough to not use a TO or get a flag for delay or too many men. I find this astounding.
Am I crazy in that todays low scoring SEC games look like UT vs South Carolina yesterday instead of that 7-6 LSU vs AU game where we shut down Russell....and that one of those was high quality, hard nosed, well coached football between 2 good teams and one is standard mediocrity laced with bad coaching? Has the money somehow made coaching worse? I'm not sure I understand what's going on, but watching games the last few years, and not just AU games, makes me think the overall quality of play is significantly below what we used to see....and a ton of that seems to look like bad coaching to me.
Florida keeps going to ATL for the title game with no offense, no QB play and generally is laughed at by anyone who has followed or covered the game for a few decades. You have quite a few ranked teams that have fan bases who would love to fire their coaches on any given week and it's not because they are impatient idiots...it's because their HC's often look like idiots themselves.
What broke football? We've got nearly every HC out there making $3-5 million per season minimum. This product is craptastic while programs have more support staff than they used to, more sports science and advanced stats than they've ever used and all I'm seeing is 90% of games that look like teams that don't practice being coached by men that get paid a fortune to not know how to use TO's, can't understand basic situational football and often can't get their special teams onto the field quickly enough to not use a TO or get a flag for delay or too many men. I find this astounding.
Am I crazy in that todays low scoring SEC games look like UT vs South Carolina yesterday instead of that 7-6 LSU vs AU game where we shut down Russell....and that one of those was high quality, hard nosed, well coached football between 2 good teams and one is standard mediocrity laced with bad coaching? Has the money somehow made coaching worse? I'm not sure I understand what's going on, but watching games the last few years, and not just AU games, makes me think the overall quality of play is significantly below what we used to see....and a ton of that seems to look like bad coaching to me.
