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One of our former position coaches now at LSU, Bill Busch, was on local radio a couple weeks ago and was talking about QB’s and “processing.” He said it’s the most important skill of a QB and described it as being to see what’s happening in live action and making a quick, correct decision, and executing it. He also said, you either have it or you don’t. Difficult to develop it. He said that Dampier has it from what he’s seen of him. He didn’t say anything about IW, but I think even the most casual fan noticed that there wasn’t much “processing” going on in the nine games he played. Makes me believe he doesn’t have it, and if Busch is right, never will.

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This tells me that all we needed was a middle of the road offense to be CFP caliber. Thinking about each loss, this checks out. With a 2021/22 offense, we’re 13-0 and #2 in the final ranking. Just like most that know the program were expecting.

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The biggest nationally-ignored unexplained inconsistency is 1-loss Boise St. being ranked ahead of 2-loss Big 12 teams. They’ve played 1 P4 and lost (Let’s not forget that Oregon did not look great in the first few weeks of the season, so let’s not give BSU too much credit for a close loss). The Big 12 teams are 8-2 vs. P4 teams. If the 3-loss SEC teams are ahead of the 2-loss Big 12 teams because of SOS, then why aren’t the Big 12 teams ahead of the MWC team for the same reason? We all know from experience if a G5 team is undefeated they can flirt with the top ten, but as soon as they get a loss, they usually rocket down the rankings to the high teens. Not happening with BSU this year. Why? It’s not like they’ve destroyed everyone they played in the MWC like Indiana has in the Big 10 aside from the OSU loss. I don’t know what is more confusing; the fact that it’s happening or the fact that nobody is questioning it. The ISU AD went after SMU. Why SMU? At least they’re in a P4. Why not BSU?

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The PAC 12 bowls are still in contract with the PAC 12. They came to an agreement for the 2024 and 2025 that the contracts would stay in force and the “legacy” PAC 12 teams that left the conference would fill those slots. So in the Alamo instance, BYU would be the Big 12 team, and CU would be the legacy PAC 12 team. Alamo will pick first from these teams and they will certainly want the eyeballs that CU would bring. The fact they didn’t play each other this year would have it make more sense.

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If he wanted to return, I would tell him he can compete for the job with everyone else, BUT there will be no money for him from our NIL. He’s uniquely situated in this market to get “real” NIL on his own due to his popularity. Ya know, endorsements negotiated outside the program with an agent like every other pro athlete does? We’ve given him a significant portion of our funds for two years with no ROI. Can’t roll the dice on the programs future again. You’re welcome back, but we need to use these funds to build a team that can succeed. We’ll sign another experienced guy and you may even win the job; however, you will only be on scholarship. No NIL funds from the program. I assume this would drive him elsewhere. If it didn’t, you have an extra experienced QB in the room at no cost.

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Amen, brotha! Abundantly clear after what we’ve seen of the four QB’s that Isaac should’ve redshirted this year and been running scout team. Sly said it best in the post-game. “They did wrong by Isaac Wilson this year.” Which means they did wrong by the program as well.

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Definitely a non-sensical design. Trick plays should be a counter to something ran earlier. This was not. Also, why wouldn’t you release one of the two blocking receivers in front of the thrower so the non-QB could throw it to his side of the field? Preferably, after you’ve already ran a hitch where the WR ran it. The fact they had him run sooooo far back made it embarrassingly obvious his full intent was to throw. I was hoping he would “Covey” it and just take off and run anyway.

Feel bad for this kid. I saw his Syrqcuse highlights and he can make plays. Apparently, another casualty of the complex offense we had. Couldn’t learn the playbook adequately enough for them to play him. Hoping that issue will now be removed moving forward.

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How many Big 12 teams would be 11-1 with Boise St.’s schedule? I think at least four. Likely more.

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Yup. It’s way too obvious with the post-reveal narrative. It’s all about scenarios that get Bama in. Will Bama get in, won’t they? It’s embarrassing. Nobody in the country cares about any other teams? This isn’t new either. Every year with the 4-team playoff the narrative was what the path would be for a 2-loss SEC team to still get in.

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The experienced starters are making $500,000-$600,000 now, which surprised me. If you can have a few successful seasons, they’ll retread you over and over and you’ll end up playing for over ten years for half the teams in the league. lol. Same with the Head Coaches. The same ones just keep bouncing around the league.

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