Missouri already tried a version of this plan, on a 12-play, 81-yard scoring drive against Texas last Saturday.
It was the only scoring drive of the game.
It featured six runs and six passes.
It WORKED. Against a Texas team that no one else has been able to run on.
So why not try it at Colorado, and make such a formation and philosphy the first option rather than throwing the football all over Folsom Field and leaving the largely immobile Gabbert back there by himself in an empty backfield?
Because Gary Pinkel is a stubborn man. He believes in his way of doing things. And he likely views any suggestion that something else might work as unfair criticism.
Mike Dearmond, whom I usually enjoy, on the KC Star's Campus Corner blog. Really, Mike?
1) If they tried it and it worked, why exactly would Pinkel be too stubborn to try it again? He wasn't too stubborn to try it in the first place, was he? That's taking the insane "OMGPINKEL'STOOSTUBBORNHE'LLNEVERCHANGE!!!!1!!" meme in an even more insane direction.
2) How in the hell do you think you know what the game plan is for Colorado? Do they reveal a lot more in these conference calls than I thought? Maybe we should try to get in on them!
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And perhaps part of why it worked
is because Mizzou HADN’T played it yet this season, so Texas had no tape on it. You’ll notice that after a good solid drive of it, Texas adjusted and it stopped working quite so well. See the BON analysis RPT fanshotted yesterday.
and the Mustache of Truculence (formerly Canada4Mizzou)
Missouri:
Where overreaction happens.
What do tigers dream of when they take a little tiger snooze? Do they dream of mauling zebras, or Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit?
by ghtd36 on Oct 28, 2009 3:18 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
See, that's the problem.
He’s using Netscape Navigator on those free Prodigy hours loaded onto that floppy disk he got free with his VHS rental from the Skaggs Alpha Beta grocery store down the street, you know, the one next to the Steak & Ale.
/BOOM UPON SLAM UPON BURNED UPON ROASTED UPON OWNED UPON PWNED
What do tigers dream of when they take a little tiger snooze? Do they dream of mauling zebras, or Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit?
by ghtd36 on Oct 28, 2009 4:12 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I see it now
In high school, I had an IBM PS/2 with the original 8088 chip and DOS 3.1. I think I could have put Windows 2.0 on it if I wanted to. But no web browser.
Any Columbia old-timers will remember COIN (Columbia Online Information Network) where you had free dial-up text-only access. I connected to a server in Fayette (where I grew up) at 9600 bps.
I remember the disks I used to get from Prodigy and Compuserve…AOL disks came later. I didn’t have a CD drive in it either…3.5" floppy FTW!!!
Ha, I can beat that
I remember tape drives, I remember 5 1/4" disks, and thinking that newfangled 3.5" floppies were pretty darn nifty. Heck, I remember trying to connect to BBS’s with a 1200 baud modem. You would open an email, and watch the individual letters string across your screen slower than you could read them. When 2400’s came out it zipped down the screen, and when we got 14.4’s it would miraculously load a whole PAGE of text at once.
Oh nostalgia.
I still think a modem’s handshake beeps is one of the best sounds ever.
and the Mustache of Truculence (formerly Canada4Mizzou)
That is awe-some!
I still recall in the very early 80’s we had a 300 baud acoustic coupler that looked a lot like this
The first 15 seconds of this video are pure auditory heaven for people who grew up geeky enough in the very narrow slice of time when you were young enough to imprint on BBS’s, but old enough to have been around before high speed connections made modems and bulletin boards (running from dedicated phone lines in people’s basements) redundant.
Oh, obscure demographic geek bliss…
and the Mustache of Truculence (formerly Canada4Mizzou)
here was mine
The sleeper has awoken. . .awakened. . .he woke up.
by SleepyFloyd7 on Oct 28, 2009 9:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh yeah?
Those are for 5 1/4 inch disks…
Two floppy disks that don’t hold as much as the 3 1/2’s in your picture, NO HARD DRIVE, and a tiny amount of RAM… yeah, that was pimping old school :)
and the Mustache of Truculence (formerly Canada4Mizzou)
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