UMgradMSUdad

October 28th, 2011 at 7:19 AM ^

"yea keenum is a good qb, but why exactly was he in up by 33 in the 4th and still passing?" 

The answer is in SouthTxMfan's post: Houston has litte chance at a BCS bowl even if they win out unless Boise loses. The only aspect that they can control is if they win by large enough margins and put up stats like 9 tds by the qb that people start paying attention despite their weak schedule.

lhglrkwg

October 28th, 2011 at 7:26 AM ^

I hear their strength of schedule is a joke and clearly they do the Oklahoma State thing which is to have no defense and just outgun people except that Oklahoma State doesn't allow 34 points to rice (presumably)

Saint_in_Blue

October 28th, 2011 at 9:32 AM ^

Houston is the new Texas Tech. And the last time I checked there are no starting QBs in the NFL from Texas Tech. Keenum is a product of a pass happy offense. Nothing more, nothing less.

Don

October 28th, 2011 at 10:39 AM ^

Those guys all benefited from offensive schemes based on throwing short passes on virtually every down against less-than-stellar defenses. If any of them had played in the SEC or Big 10 their numbers wouldn't have been remotely the same, and virtually none of them have had what could be called a truly successful NFL career.

Cliff Kingsbury is the QB coach at Houston, and he amassed a bunch of records at TT under Leach, some of which that still stand in the NCAA record book. Didn't matter—Kingsbury didn't last in the NFL either.

Those offenses are hothouse products that can only exist in rarified, special circumstances.

Personally, watching those offenses is like watching paint dry to me.