AZRAEL said:
aragorn231 said:
go look at time of possession and tell me the defense didn't factor into the lost
He thinks the offense was supposed to get the defense off the field. It is the "football knowledge," thing he has going.
Your ignorance is absolutely astounding. Although why I am surprised I don't know. This football board is littered with people like you.
TOP is a measurement of two things- how well the offense controlled the ball and how effectively your defense stopped the offense.
Taken by itself TOP means very little. You can lose and completely dominate TOP. You can win and completely lose TOP. By itself it means nothing.
However when used as an adjunctive to properly assessing the performance of both offensive and defensive units and not as a standalone measure of success it can help narrow down the areas of weakness/strength which contributed to a win or loss.
In this case the defense allowed a measly 17 points under the massive strain of losing the TOP battle.
The offense was only able to run 7 plays on the opponents side of the field all game long.
When you analyze the information together it becomes clear that the defense was under duress, having to defend a short field all game long as the offense failed to consistently move the football.
App state scored 52 week 1 and 61 against UNC. This indicates that they have a very potent offense.
Our defense held a high scoring team to 17 points WHILE battling a short field all game long and when the offense could not even put the football on the opponent's side of the field much less put something in the end zone.
^^so there is some football knowledge for ya^^
The offense is what failed. The college footbalm game no longer is won at the elite level by middle school football scores of 17-10. Those days are 20 years in the past even in the SEC.
Your mind set is a losing mind set and by that I mean a mind set which is mired in the past, without a decent mind for strategy, and inability to see beyond what the paid Schills and bag holders of the program tell you to think. This is precisely the mind set of most Aggies and aggie fans.
It is a losing way of thinking and one of the many reasons the Aggies have for the past 30 years done so very little with so much.
This is THE perennial problem of the program that has followed it since RC stubbornly refused to change to the spread, thinking his demolition of Ty Detmer meant the college football landscape wasn't changing.
But yeah...keep making fun of my "football" knowledge.
Because the way you have falsely analyzed this is the same way aggie fans and the people making decisions have falsely analyzed aggie football for 30 years now. And that way of thinking has resulted in so many championships that you are absolutely right......I have no business talking.