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I think Lex means that Stanford needs an overwhelming TOP advantage to keep its defense off the field.  Although TOP really doesn't matter if they score and you don't.  It was all pretty even last night on balance.  I'm just hung up on the massive fade starting in Q2.

Interesting factoid on SVP last night.  First time in history both Army and Navy won a bowl game in the same season.  Neither team completed a pass.  Army held the ball in their game for 46 minutes!  That is 77 percent of the clock.  Navy held the ball in their game for 42 minutes (70 percent). Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch the Army game, which sounded like a barn-burner. They made a 2 point conversion to win with seconds left and then recovered a botched lateral-return attempt on the ensuing kickoff for the final margin of 7.  I listened to chunks of the Navy game while in transit to the field yesterday.  They gave up an opening kickoff return and then nothing else. They were discussing Alabama-Clemson extensively early in the third quartered. Took me forever to find out what was actually happening.  I only bring this up because I think Lex wants Stanford to emulate that kind of dominance, albeit probably with more than 8 pass attempts in a season.  Both of those offenses are completely predictable outside of the inherent unpredictability of the triple option and variants thereof.  (There was a grand total of one triple option play combined in the Army-Navy blizzard game.  Army almost fumbled away the win, but it turned into the penultimate winning play.  Risk-reward.)

And great story Nan3cy!

[jacketree]

I think Lex means that Stanford needs an overwhelming TOP advantage to keep its defense off the field.  Although TOP really doesn't matter if they score and you don't.  It was all pretty even last night on balance.  I'm just hung up on the massive fade starting in Q2.

Interesting factoid on SVP last night.  First time in history both Army and Navy won a bowl game in the same season.  Neither team completed a pass.  Army held the ball in their game for 46 minutes!  That is 77 percent of the clock.  Navy held the ball in their game for 42 minutes (70 percent). Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch the Army game, which sounded like a barn-burner. They made a 2 point conversion to win with seconds left and then recovered a botched lateral-return attempt on the ensuing kickoff for the final margin of 7.  I listened to chunks of the Navy game while in transit to the field yesterday.  They gave up an opening kickoff return and then nothing else. They were discussing Alabama-Clemson extensively early in the third quartered. Took me forever to find out what was actually happening.  I only bring this up because I think Lex wants Stanford to emulate that kind of dominance, albeit probably with more than 8 pass attempts in a season.  Both of those offenses are completely predictable outside of the inherent unpredictability of the triple option and variants thereof.  (There was a grand total of one triple option play combined in the Army-Navy blizzard game.  Army almost fumbled away the win, but it turned into the penultimate winning play.  Risk-reward.)

And great story Nan3cy!