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I've been reading about how wise KSU's coach Snyder is, and that he coaches a very disciplined style of football.  Many of their fans have expectations that their coach will devise some sophisticated way to deprive CMac of the situational opportunities that he has been so phenomenal in exploiting.

Wasn't there similar musing from Hawkeye fans prior to the Rose Bowl?  They had very good reason to believe that they had a strong defensive unit.  Nonetheless, our offense dismantled, embarrassed, humiliated, decimated, and soundly beat that strong defensive unit.  CMac himself set a Rose Bowl record (actually probably several) for APY.  It was a drubbing.

Now there was some note that the Iowa players indicated they had not seen much of CMac, but that is implausible in this day and age of video study to prepare.  KSU has had a boatload of time to study film and they think they may have an approach to stopping our hero. 

But I think seeing CMac on tape is a totally, 100% different experience than seeing him come at you on a football field.  I am reminded of my reaction to his high school junior year highlight film that I looked at closely when we were recruiting him.  Probably because one of you posted it.  I really do remember playing it back multiple times, over and over; trying to figure out if he was that good, or were the opponents inept?  I think I even posted here to ask the question.

The point is that CMac is highly unique.  I do not expect KSU to slow him down significantly.  If his metrics are slightly off, I'm pretty sure its because Cameron Scarlett's and Trent Irwin's are through the roof.  The only reason his production was pedestrian against Northwestern and the first half of UCF was we had not figured out how to use him.  For one thing, in those games we needed to use him a lot.  We were unable to get him rolling until that UCF second half.  After that it felt like every week was a candy store for him.  OK, maybe not the Washington schools quite as much.  But I think people just don't comprehend how unique he is. 

Naturally, this could all be a load of hooey.  Just one guy's delusional doting.  I sincerely hope not.  I really expect not.

[CornFed]

I've been reading about how wise KSU's coach Snyder is, and that he coaches a very disciplined style of football.  Many of their fans have expectations that their coach will devise some sophisticated way to deprive CMac of the situational opportunities that he has been so phenomenal in exploiting.

Wasn't there similar musing from Hawkeye fans prior to the Rose Bowl?  They had very good reason to believe that they had a strong defensive unit.  Nonetheless, our offense dismantled, embarrassed, humiliated, decimated, and soundly beat that strong defensive unit.  CMac himself set a Rose Bowl record (actually probably several) for APY.  It was a drubbing.

Now there was some note that the Iowa players indicated they had not seen much of CMac, but that is implausible in this day and age of video study to prepare.  KSU has had a boatload of time to study film and they think they may have an approach to stopping our hero. 

But I think seeing CMac on tape is a totally, 100% different experience than seeing him come at you on a football field.  I am reminded of my reaction to his high school junior year highlight film that I looked at closely when we were recruiting him.  Probably because one of you posted it.  I really do remember playing it back multiple times, over and over; trying to figure out if he was that good, or were the opponents inept?  I think I even posted here to ask the question.

The point is that CMac is highly unique.  I do not expect KSU to slow him down significantly.  If his metrics are slightly off, I'm pretty sure its because Cameron Scarlett's and Trent Irwin's are through the roof.  The only reason his production was pedestrian against Northwestern and the first half of UCF was we had not figured out how to use him.  For one thing, in those games we needed to use him a lot.  We were unable to get him rolling until that UCF second half.  After that it felt like every week was a candy store for him.  OK, maybe not the Washington schools quite as much.  But I think people just don't comprehend how unique he is. 

Naturally, this could all be a load of hooey.  Just one guy's delusional doting.  I sincerely hope not.  I really expect not.