09-01-2012, 04:56 PM
At the 17-3, I thought that the ceiling might be 8 wins this year. At the time I thought there are 5 tough games, and Stanford might win 1 of those 5 to create that 8 win ceiling.
That was BEFORE the SJSU spread type game carved up the Stanford D. It is very hard to imagine that SC and Oregon won't destroy the secondary. It was not hard to imagine 5 or 6 Pac-12 teams passing successfully against that scheme.
Ironically, the front 7 is too good against the run, so even if teams wanted to have a run-oriented game plan it is not going to be their plan. I kept wondering how many of those 7 really need to play the run to stop the run. 4? 5? I almost wanted the D to let SJSU get 3 yards on a run or two to stop the pass game pain.
Hopefully, the team thought SJSU was going to be easy and therefore they just were not prepared. That would be bad coaching, but at least it would leave a lot of room for improvement.
But it was only one game. Afterall SC looked terrible last year against Minnesota and everything turned out OK for them.
That was BEFORE the SJSU spread type game carved up the Stanford D. It is very hard to imagine that SC and Oregon won't destroy the secondary. It was not hard to imagine 5 or 6 Pac-12 teams passing successfully against that scheme.
Ironically, the front 7 is too good against the run, so even if teams wanted to have a run-oriented game plan it is not going to be their plan. I kept wondering how many of those 7 really need to play the run to stop the run. 4? 5? I almost wanted the D to let SJSU get 3 yards on a run or two to stop the pass game pain.
Hopefully, the team thought SJSU was going to be easy and therefore they just were not prepared. That would be bad coaching, but at least it would leave a lot of room for improvement.
But it was only one game. Afterall SC looked terrible last year against Minnesota and everything turned out OK for them.