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Yeah, it's not like option football has gone anywhere. Army runs a lot of triple option because they can't recruit guys who can throw and catch very well. Their average recruiting rank is like 115

Wisconsin got the V.   Easily.   The rest is just spin.  

/Climbs on small soap box that would pitch to a smaller, faster soap box

Why is every damn option team game a referendum on the option? Like, it's a bowl, drawing much meaning from it is kinda silly.

It's especially silly in this bowl. First, this is not a good Army offense. Like, by the usual standards of any option offense, it's kinda dreadful. Second, WVU is not your normal Big 12 team in that it too is bad at offense and good at defense. Three, any time Army plays a P5 team, it should lose. Full stop. This is literally a team that can't recruit players bigger than a certain size. If WVU wins comfortably, nothing should be taken from it other than, this is how it was suppose to go.

Do I think the option would have some trouble in the Big 12 with the pace, but I think that to a degree is overblown. Option teams are generally underdogs. And when underdogs fall behind by 14-21, they mostly lose. If you're up-tempo, maybe it wins you a game every year or two, and maybe you lose about as many because you can't sit on the ball. Shoot, Bill Snyder played option adjacent football for years, and it was mostly OK to sometimes good. This isn't to say that Oklahoma should start with it, but Kansas? Maybe.

(I mean, lots of offenses look bad all the time, but we're never like, "Look, that one team couldn't manage a high-tempo balanced spread, can't work in that conference")

for example:  Mike Leach's air raid offense is 4th in the SEC and out of the top 15 this season.  Not horrible, but not up to his standard.

I didn't know that UF was missing 9 starters last night.  Is that right?
In any event, most of them chose to skip it.
I sure didn't get ESPN having Pitts on there rambling on and on wishing his teammates well.  You wish your teammates well?  Show it with your actions, not empty words.

Definitely sucks for Trask, whose stock probably took a big hit

How many Florida starters were absent because they opted out and how many missed because of injury

I think bowls should get some sort of player assurance of participation and the right not to invite

for example:  Mike Leach's air raid offense is 4th in the SEC and out of the top 15 this season.  Not horrible, but not up to his standard.

msu is 2nd to last in scoring offense and bottom half in total offense. they're 5th in passing offense, which i guess is good since they basically forgo trying to run at all.

don't get me wrong, i think hes a good coach and will do fine in sec. but they were pretty bad this year and easy to shut down with a simple 8 man zone drop. virtually every team did it to him after lsu game and they were shut down.