Phil Steele : RR vs. Bo when +30 pts scored against UM
Phil Steele's blog had an interesting tidbit today comparing RR to Bo Schembechler:
"Under Rich Rodriguez Michigan has allowed twelve 30+ pt games in 2 years while Bo Schembechler in his 21 years had just five 30+ pt games allowed…"
Link: http://blog.philsteele.com/2009/11/09/news-notes-week-11/#more-1982
November 9th, 2009 at 6:28 PM ^
Do you hear that? That's my heart breaking.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:56 AM ^
With all due respect, that sound is the sound of eras changing. And the passing of the "Big2, Little8."
November 9th, 2009 at 6:28 PM ^
Itis interesting but we don't run 3 yards and a cloud of dust now. It's a completely different tempo and completely different game. If we chewed clock and worked the field position game and played Tresselball then we wouldnt be giving up 30 points a game either.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:20 PM ^
Our D will give up 30ppg regardless of tempo.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:36 PM ^
Yeah it's a different era of football as MCHammer-smooth said. Athletes are bigger, faster, stronger, being put into space they make more plays.
I bet if you compared how many 30+ offensive games RichRod has had so far vs Bo you'd see a similar trend.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:17 PM ^
over everyone in the Big Ten except OSU; he had eleven 30+ offensive games in his first two seasons (21 games)
RR has had seven in his first 22 games. The times are very different.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:38 PM ^
more then 10 times a game. Agree with the above, its kind like comparing prices and ignoring inflation
November 9th, 2009 at 6:44 PM ^
Assuming I can count, which is as always in doubt.
Interestingly, all of them came after 1997.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:56 PM ^
on scholarship. I can't remember a walkon starting on defense, let alone two. Just sayin'
November 9th, 2009 at 7:04 PM ^
teams only gave up 30+ pts twice; hell, there were 12 teams under Yost that yielded less than 30 points for the entire year. RR is sooooo much worse than Fielding Yost. My respect for Steele just dropped 20%.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:15 PM ^
That would be a silly silly stat to read into.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:23 PM ^
What would be more interesting to me is the number of plays over 20 yards Bo's teams gave up in his tenure as coach.
The competition in the Big Ten is much tougher now than when Bo was coach. Some of those NW, Indiana, Iowa teams were god awful in the 70's, if my memory serves me well.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:24 PM ^
Somewhat apples and oranges, and it's only good for hinting at what we already know: the defense was consistently good when Bo was the coach, and it has been pretty awful over the last two seasons.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:13 PM ^
Really disappointed that someone like Phil Steele would point this out w/out providing any kind of context. That is pretty lazy for someone that relies entirely on numbers.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:57 PM ^
but I thought he was above fanbase-baiting. He knows too much about college football to make this comparison between an active coach and one who coached his last game 20 years ago.