With only 8 pass attempts the whole game, State beat Florida 10-7.
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Chris Relf getting things done.
In 2010 they had changed a lot in 2 years.
Urban…the very picture of the AGONY OF DEFEAT.
There's no such thing as a one-dimensional passing offense.
We got up 10-0 early in that game and Mullen just sat on them for 3 quarters.
I made the trip to Gainesville to watch this game. Before this win in Gainesville, the last time MSU had beaten Florida at home was 1965, which was only a few years before I was born. Lots of dejected Gator fans, along with Urban. Chris White had an amazing game defensively.
Miss those days.
Miss those days.
Of course there is. That’s a ridiculous thing to say.
And this season we are playing in Gainesville for the first time since that win. 15 years later.
Did you actually type that? That's dense, even for you.
FFS
Such a miserable cuntshit post
2010 defenses weren't even remotely ancient even by today's standards
What I wouldn't give to have watched that Relf team over anything MSU has put on the field in the past 2 years.
Actually more likely to work against modern defenses that are now build on spread concepts and not as good in the front 7.
People say what they want about Mullen being a crappy recruiter but dude could take what he had and come up with an offense and game plan and win. Even if it was run da bawl and keep away with good defense. Now we just try to outscore our opponents which rarely works for us. Leach did a similar concept of keep away with pass for 2 yards. His defenses just weren't as good a mullens and his offenses never topped out as high. Lebby, Arnett, and Moorhead played keep away from ourselves.
Someone will. And will have success. And they'll be called "innovative." And other teams will start to do it. And then defenses will adjust to it. It's been this way since the invention of the forward pass.
It seems like he recruited poorly at Florida but the idea that he didn’t recruit well here is a total myth at this point. Sure there were some specific cases of high profile recruits that he didn’t land. But the guy is responsible for like a fourth of our NFL draft picks all time.
I was standing amidst the celebrating MSU crowd outside the stadium when a very miserable Urban Meyer got chauffered out right through the middle of us.
Waited for the coaches and team to came out, went to say congratulations to Megan Mullen and got a full on hug around the neck outta nowhere. That was a very happy bunch that night.
It worked until it didn't. Like everything else. And it will work again until it doesn't. Are you arguing just to argue?
He wasn't a crappy recruiter either. He consistently lived in the 20s, just like pretty much all our coaches have. But he knew the right type of players needed for his offense, and he knew the type of defensive players this state produces and went and got them. Jackie did it too, and Leach did also. And shockingly, they are all good coaches.
We've always had a glass ceiling on the top talent we can get here due to the overall football culture (money/support has always been a part of this, just a little more transparent now). Some extraordinary has to happen to break that ceiling. We ALMOST pulled it off a few times......maybe if Jackie had beaten Tennessee in 1998, or if we had landed Cam Newton, or if Leach had been able to get a good 5-7 years in for him to build that one contending team he always seemed to have.
That's why, and I quote, said "there's no such thing as a one-dimensional passing offense", you dolt.
Eh, maybe to some extent. Most of the innovation has gone toward the pass, once it was truly accepted, and away from the ground game. The pass opens the run, rarely happens the other way around, eventually a defense can just stifle you. Plus the rules keep changing and favor the pass game more and more.
If the rules change back I could see more people trying to innovate on the ground. At best, you get Georgia Tech and the service academies. Bert tried to do some pro style stuff at Arkansas.
Well you're also high school. As player talent evens out, matures and coaching knowledge, you can't just run over people because you've been practicing it since kindergarten.