TWIS: WNSR Bill King's Balls of Steel Segment
Granted, this is from Monday, but the raw schadenfreude is quite satisfying. It contains a good sampling of several crushed bucknuts venting and MGoFans boasting on the weekly "Balls of Steel" segment of the Bill King Show on WNSR out of Nashville, TN.
For those of you not familiar with Bill King, he does a radio program that covers CFB nationwide and year-round, and was carried on XMRadio for a time.
Nashville Sports Radio - WNSR · The Bill King Show HR 3 11 - 28 - 22
November 30th, 2022 at 12:08 PM ^
I'm not saying Ryan is Coop 2.0, but Knowles is clearly Don Brown Ohio style. Five long TD plays. The only short TD was when Ohio D played us straight up and still got road graded. I like the Ravens D.
November 30th, 2022 at 12:19 PM ^
I was a pretty staunch Don Brown defender (yes, even after the 2018 and 2019 drubbings in The Game). The defense outside of those games was just so damn good. But holy hell, have I been happy to have been proven dramatically wrong about firing him. The defense the last two years has been astoundingly good, particularly when it's mattered the most.
We will probably never see Michigan hold MSU to less than 100 yards again, but that's alright if it means we hold the Buckeyes to their worst offensive performances consistently.
November 30th, 2022 at 12:49 PM ^
I still stand by the fact that Brown's scheme could've been (and was for a couple years) effective if it was recruited for correctly. In '16 and '17 when we had pre-DB recruited size up front and speed in the secondary we largely held OSU in check. Once Don's undersized DTs and slow DBs took over we never stood a chance with that aggressive blitzing/man style.
November 30th, 2022 at 6:05 PM ^
Don Brown over reacted to the Saquon Barkley slot fade PSU game and started trying to recruit taller corners. That whole class basically fizzled out and set our corner recruiting back about 2 years. But at least that was an adjustment he made to try and fix a hole in his defense. It turned out to be a mistake and hurt him more in the long run but he tried.
On the other hand, I can't for the life of me figure out his insistence on build a bear defensive tackles. He inherited some dominant interior defensive lineman and seemed to decide that wasn't what he wanted, he wanted leaner and quicker. Some huge recruiting misses later and his defense fell apart.
November 30th, 2022 at 9:58 PM ^
I think it was indicative of the need for the major coaching overhaul that happened - recruiting is the absolute lifeblood of any good program - so if you are not going to go all in on bagmen or NIL now, you absolutely MUST have coaches and a program that out-recruits to get the Jimmy's and Joe's needed to run your systems.
Don Brown was a challenge on that front, as well as, not wanting to do the recruiting with a number of other hires that were made. I think Harbaugh has corrected that - but NFL pedigree is great to a degree in the locker room - but if you never want to leave campus or recruit - the misses and holes get bigger and bigger.
November 30th, 2022 at 6:13 PM ^
I listened for 5 minutes and am regretting it.
November 30th, 2022 at 9:13 PM ^
Bill King was fun to listen to when he was on XM mornings and Mark Packer on XM Drive time. Both are now gone. Now XM 84 ESPNU is boring with Heather Dinich.
December 1st, 2022 at 12:59 PM ^
"who is this les miles?" This takes me back to the roughest times in recent M history when I listened to him on Sirius regularly. Good enough to drive around to and muse on all things CFB. Better than Paul himself and lots of commentary on Paul that was somehow funny to me. SEC bias all day so not for most on this blog. ...
Thanks for reminding me I could listen to this again on WNSR outta nash vegas aka Hell 2.0.