Not-so-gentle reign

Coach Fam as interim. Right before the MU game? Now that is Man-genius. That is it, Coach Fam is the one that came up with all these absurd allegations in hopes to fire up the team for the MU game.

November 19, 2009 at 11:46 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Nebraska: Mangino's Last Stand?

You guys are leaving out his quote after halftime about K-state preventing us from running the ball. We had 5 attempts at rushing between Jake and Opurum. Opurum had two rushes for 7 yards at that point and ended with 2 rushes and 7 yards. Sharp had 3 rushes for 8 or 9 yards and ended with 11 rushes for 35 yards. So after he said they were doing something to stop our run he runs it 8 times for 27 yards.

They just completely give up on the run if they aren't averaging 5 yards a carry. They don't even use Opurum as a running back or a lead blocker for Jake and run Jake up the middle time and time again after proving it works less then half the time. Back in '07 we had McAnderson and Jake in there a lot at the same time.

The two back set gives you so much to do in the running game. For a team that is "struggling" in this category wouldn't you think that we would try something different and go to two backs? Opurum could lead Jake up the middle, we could hand off to Opurum up the middle, fake to Opurum up the middle and run the option or pitch to sharp on the outside. Could leave Opurum in on pass plays to give another blocker to help our offensive line. For some reason the coaches have yet to realize that the two back set could help us out in the pass game and the run game.

November 9, 2009 at 9:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU ’09 like ’07? Hardly

3.8 yards a rush is still good enough. With that average you could run every time and get a first down and score without facing a 4th down. 3 x 3.8 = 11.4 yards. It baffles me that the coaching staff thinks that our run game is so bad that we can only run 10 times a game....

November 9, 2009 at 9:18 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: Daniel Thomas runs for 183 yards in KSU's 17-10 victory over KU

BP2U

he was using sarcasm and hinting towards the fact that our coaching staff plays injured players. (ex Jake Sharp and Todd Reesing)

November 7, 2009 at 2:27 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: Daniel Thomas runs for 183 yards in KSU's 17-10 victory over KU

yeha i was just saying if we had a lead blocker for sharp up the middle it would a lot more effective then sharp by himself up the middle.

November 7, 2009 at 2:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: Daniel Thomas runs for 183 yards in KSU's 17-10 victory over KU

in 2007 did we not have two backs that rushed for a bunch of yards a piece? why don't we try that anymore? Opurum is amazing and he only has 2 rush attempts this game?

November 7, 2009 at 2:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: Daniel Thomas runs for 183 yards in KSU's 17-10 victory over KU

what's wrong with having a lead blocker? we never seem to utilize this concept in the run game.

November 7, 2009 at 2:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: Daniel Thomas runs for 183 yards in KSU's 17-10 victory over KU

put in opurum, if not to run then to at least block for when sharp is rushed up the middle

November 7, 2009 at 2:07 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: Daniel Thomas runs for 183 yards in KSU's 17-10 victory over KU

run the ball is what we need

November 7, 2009 at 1:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

FINAL: Daniel Thomas runs for 183 yards in KSU's 17-10 victory over KU

funny, Mark Mangino says they are are doing a lot up front to take away our running game, but Sharp and Opurum only have 5 combined carries. How about actually trying to run the ball. This is ridiculous.

November 7, 2009 at 1:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )