2015 College Football Thread is now closed

[cash money 1999]

#1 player and #1 athlete in the Nation, but we get out-recruited in our state Chuma and Hyatt got exposed during camps and AA games, idk how they kept their rankings.

goodwin over donte jackson? ive see kerryon high on some sites too

 

[champcruthik]

Johnny_Cakes , keep an eye out for Dev's lil' brother (Jordan Fuller). Class of 2016. Bigger, faster, and maybe more athletic than Dev. Early lean seems to be UCLA or RU, although Penn State and FSU were among the first to offer Jordan.

 

[cash money 1999]

^heck u been

 

[10508 cardo jr ln]

Godwin and Donte Jackson are 1a and 1b imo, difference being that Godwin played QB and is a way better WR than Donte is a better corner.

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

champcruthik will keep my eyes open, thanks for the heads up.

Coach Mora keeping it 100.

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[bigmike23]

I am not surprised that Hyatt & Chuma were the players on that list who got exposed.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

QB coach Tony Ball is leaving UGA & heading to LSU

 

[Chester McFloppy]

It's OK he was a scrub dawgs on top

 

[10508 cardo jr ln]

It's OK he was a scrub dawgs on top

Bruh find y0u s0mn t0 d0

 

[champcruthik]

^heck u been

Mexico.

champcruthik will keep my eyes open, thanks for the heads up.

No problem. Need a big senior year from Dev.

 

[SneakerProSr.]

^heck u been

Mexico.

champcruthik will keep my eyes open, thanks for the heads up.

No problem. Need a big senior year from Dev.

Lowkey my dude Champ is either a secret agent or a drug kingpin.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

He's a high ranking member of the US faction of the Sinaloa Cartel.

 

[dacomeup]

Golden asked a kid. "If I had $300,000 to give to you to take on the bus with you, what would you do with it?"
(and then offered him a scholarship).

Bag man BACK in Coral Gables.

 

[jewbacca2]

Miami got off easy when we were discussing the most annoying fan bases...

We get it, yall hate Golden.

 

[jumpman ii]

Do they? I can never tell

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Golden asked a kid. "If I had $300,000 to give to you to take on the bus with you, what would you do with it?"
(and then offered him a scholarship).

Bag man BACK in Coral Gables.

If golden is asking that then he obvs doesn't understand bag man protocol

Violations byke.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

NCAA football rule change could end the pop pass
One of football's newest wrinkles might be grounded before it can fully take off.

A proposed change to the NCAA rule for illegal men downfield could make a big impact on how some offenses operate, via the AP's Ralph Russo. The current rule allows offensive linemen to move three yards beyond the line of scrimmage on passing plays, and the proposed change would pull that back to only one yard beyond the line, which is the rule in the NFL.

The proposal will be voted on in March, and if approved, will go into effect for the 2015 season.

This would make it extremely difficult to pull off some of football's trendiest plays without committing a penalty for illegal man downfield. The play has become more common over the past few seasons, with Auburn's Gus Malzahn being the most notable coach to use it. Auburn would be far from the only team affected by this rule change, though.

This piece from SB Nation's Ian Boyd goes into great detail about the pop pass and its origins, but the short description goes like this: A pop pass is a play in which the offensive line run blocks and the quarterback shows run before pulling up for a pass at the last second. It's a devastating play when pulled off correctly, but it frequently involves offensive linemen well beyond the three-yard limit.

Andy Staples [emoji]10004[/emoji] @Andy_Staples
Case in point. RT @LTorbin: How do you defend this? 10 men downfield! (via @coachingsearch) http://bit.ly/1KKoWSH
9:01 PM - 12 Feb 2015

The pop pass may not exactly be commonplace, but it's prevalent enough to have seeped into the NFL, a development that Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll attributed to Malzahn.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-foo...95/illegal-man-downfield-rule-change-pop-pass

Change in illegal man downfield rule could boost defenses

The play still annoys many Alabama fans who are convinced it was illegal. No, not the Kick-Six that Auburn used to beat the Crimson Tide on the last play of the 2013 Iron Bowl. It was the touchdown the Tigers scored before the famous missed field goal that really burns 'Bama fans.

Auburn tied the score late in the fourth quarter when Nick Marshall flipped a pass to Sammie Coates over a defense that was drawn in by a run-blocking offensive line. A couple of Auburn linemen appear to have strayed down the field a bit farther than the 3 yards allowed on the play, but it wasn't called and the rest is history.

Starting next season, offenses that try to confuse defenses by throwing behind run-blocking lines could have less room to work their games of deception.

The NCAA rules committee has proposed changing the illegal man downfield penalty — Rule 7, Article 10 in the NCAA book — shortening the distance linemen can move downfield before the ball is thrown to 1 yard, which matches the NFL rule.

"I think it's a rule that the defensive coaches are going to be very excited about," Penn State defensive coordinator Bob Shoop said Thursday. "Specifically, the ones that are keying hard on the offensive line for their run-pass reads. I think that's a big one right there for them."

And, of course, offensive coaches — who fought off a proposal by the rules committee to slow down up-tempo attacks last year — see it differently.

"It's the continuation of a trend where defensive people try to change the rules rather than try to stop the advances in offense," said new Montana coach Bob Stitt, who used spread schemes at Division II Colorado School of Mines that were considered among the most creative in college football.

NCAA coordinator of officials Rogers Redding said Wednesday the proposal was made because it was difficult for officials to determine if a lineman had gone past the 3-yard limit before a pass was released.

The proposal still needs to be approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel in March. If it does — and most do — the change would go into effect next season.

"It definitely will affect offenses that are trying to throw the ball downfield while the box is blocking run with pop passes," Stitt said.

Play-action passes have been a part of football for decades. Fake a handoff, have the offensive linemen block as it is a running play, then throw a pass over a defense playing run.

The concept has evolved with the rise of spread offenses, said Chris Brown, the author of "The Essential Smart Football."

It started with plays that could be changed at the line to quick screen passes behind run-blocking lines and that led to so-called packaged plays.

"Five, six, seven years ago coaches started realizing we can actually tell our linemen to just run block, block a run play, and give the quarterbacks the option to not just handoff or throw a screen, he can also maybe throw the ball down the field," Brown said.

Allowing linemen to drift 3 yards from the line of scrimmage provided a lot of time for a quarterback to make a decision.

"As coaches started experimenting with this stuff they noticed it really started messing with defenses," Brown said.

To say the least.

"Once you get down to a certain point, I mean, come on, it's not even fair," Oklahoma defensive coordinator Mike Stoops told The Oklahoman after the Sooners lost to Kansas State in October and allowed a 62-yard pop pass for a touchdown to Wildcats fullback Glenn Gronkowski. "You've got offensive linemen running down the field and they're throwing the ball. That's not the way football was meant to be played."

Stitt said the number of missed penalties for illegal man downfield gets exaggerated — and it wasn't enough to justify changing the rule.

"We throw passes off of runs a lot like that, and I bet when we stopped the tape we might have been illegal two or three times all season," he said.

Illegal man downfield will still be a tough call for officials. And a change in the rule won't cause Stitt, Auburn's Gus Malzahn, Baylor's Art Briles, Arizona's Rich Rodriguez and the dozens of other coaches running spread offenses to tear up their playbooks.

"I don't think these plays are going away and I don't think they should go away. And you see them in the NFL where the rules are pretty strict," Brown said. "But I think it will get rid of what I call the broken video game plays, where there is a guy wide open and it looks like the defenders are broken game logic."

http://collegefootball.ap.org/article/change-illegal-man-downfield-rule-could-boost-defenses

 

[herbshuttles15]

FSU about to clean up this weekend

 

[dacomeup]

FSU about to clean up this weekend

?

 

[herbshuttles15]

Junior day

 

[dacomeup]

Miami at 17 commits for 2016. All from Florida.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

That muck kid yall just landed could be a quality CB imo

Dunno if yall took him as a ath or a RB (or CB for that matter) though

 

[CP1708]

We gonna SHATTER decommit records with this group. Could get into the mid 20's.

 

[mr marcus]

We gonna SHATTER decommit records with this group. Could get into the mid 20's.

I see it

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

We gonna SHATTER decommit records with this group. Could get into the mid 20's.