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After the UCLA game and then the first half of Oregon State it was clear that Johnson could not make even the simplest throws with any consistency. Even if Barnes could only provide 75% of what Rising did, he was the only option for the rest of the season.

Two of three really good QBs in Whitt and Lud’s tenure audibled a lot (Cam) or were rumored to be calling the plays on field (BJohnson). Lud had Huntley for a year, can’t speak to the dynamic with Huntley.

More chaos plays by the defense would help. Only non-offensive TD has been the blocked field goal return. Usually by now our defense has had a few scores.

Yeah, I remember reading all the time how difficult his offense was to grasp and that being the reason that certain players weren’t seeing the field etc. I guess that’s fine if you’re one of the best offenses in college football year in and out, but it just seemed kind of ridiculous to me. If guys are good enough to play but it takes them a…[Read more]

I have been making that exact argument for the last 6 years. When Ludwig has an accurate QB that can improvise with his legs when the planned options are not available, his “system” seems to work really well. Those types aren’t exactly dime a dozen at the college level.

National championship game perhaps, not even knowing who would be in it.

My first reaction was the same as yours. Former Army guy, and my friends son is a Freshman on the team.

🎶Ain’t no fakin’ I’m onto Bajakian.🎶

If it takes 2 full offseasons to learn, that seems like non starter. Especially in the day and age of the portal.

Could you argue that this type of offense only worked because it often didn’t work and required a running QB to scramble and salvage a “blown up” play?

Here’s what shocks me…in the 2023 Spring Game, Rose showed the most talent and promise of all the QBs that played. That’s why everyone, myself included, that he was QB2 going into the season. Then he got injured in practice and narrative changed completely to one that he didn’t know the playbook. I’m still completely flabbergasted at that…[Read more]

Without being in the QB room, none of us can answer that. Ludwig himself says that it takes two FULL offseasons to completely install his offense.

One possibility is the number of decisions that a QB needs to make on each play. Another could be having 16 different ways to run to the A gap. A third could be the number of available options on…[Read more]

Totally agree with that. Not everyone wants to play in the NFL. Some guys have more brains than talent (e.g. Jack Tuttle) and use the system to have a good time at college and have all of their studies paid for. In today’s normal person environment, there’s nothing better than graduating from college with one or two degrees and no debt.

Plain and simple: He made it “complicated” by his asinine play calling and not utilizing his talent. Killing any sort of momentum with his own play calls. Which then makes everyone, players and fans, frustrated beyond belief. Let’s just be grateful he’s longer OC.

Okay, so we all saw these mind boggling plays. Why do we say that Ludwig stepping down was “falling on the sword”. He was the one calling these drive killing plays we’ve all seen.

man we ran so many reverse during the Covey days. They could all ended up as negative yards but Covey was magical in turning negative yards into chunk play. We just don’t have great players to bail us out from bad calls anymore

I still wake up in a cold sweat screaming at Devaughn to throw the ball away.

This things make me mad years later.