Post by biggieorange on Sept 12, 2016 10:15:15 GMT -8
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Go Beavs!
Your argument basically is that Oregon State' defense did not do better than much more talented defenses against Oregon's offense. This is completely wrong. You follow it up with a fall-back argument that, even if Oregon State's defense did quantifiably do better, that the games were over at halftime in games with Oregon State and somehow not in games with other teams. This is also completely wrong.
Teams that did worse than Banker's defense:
2009: Purdue, California, Washington State, Washington, Pete Carroll's USC, Harbaugh's Stanford, Erickson's Arizona State, and Arizona.
2010: New Mexico, Tennessee, Portland State, Erickson's Arizona State, Harbaugh's Stanford, Washington State, UCLA, Carroll's USC, Washington, and Arizona.
2011: Nevada, Missouri State, Arizona, and Stanford.
2012: Arkansas State, Tennessee Tech, RichRod's Arizona, Washington State, Washington, Colorado, USC, and California.
2013: Nicholls State, Virginia, Tennessee, California, Colorado, Washington, Washington State, UCLA, and Utah.
2014: South Dakota, Wyoming, California, Utah, Arizona, and Florida State.
Much more talented teams did much worse than Oregon State at stopping Oregon rather consistently.
Civil War score at halftime:
2009: Oregon State 23 - Oregon 21
2010: Oregon 16 - Oregon State 7 (Fake punt and the offense was too conservative in the second half.)
2011: Oregon 28 - Oregon State 7 (The Ducks' first team offense stayed in until 11:44 left in the fourth after going up 42-7.)
2012: Oregon 20 - Oregon State 10 (6 Oregon State turnovers. The Ducks' first team offense stayed in until 8:24 left in the fourth after going up 48-17.)
2013: 17-17 tie.
2014: Oregon 30 - Oregon State 3 (The Ducks' first team offense stayed in until 5:00 left in the fourth after going up 47-17.)
Oregon is filled with a bunch of classless morons. They will always pour it on Oregon State, if they can. Always. They will always try to pour it on Oregon State over other teams. Always. The fact is that Oregon State always takes Oregon's best shot and generally does better than several more-talented teams. I will be curious to see what Banker with "more talent" can do against Oregon this year.
I think the real question will be, is how does Oregon's young Oline handle Nebraska dline. Neb has talent in the front 7, but what I saw made some tactical errors (particularlyfrom LB), which alludes to the Banker "complicated system" we always saw.