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Is the BIG 10 benefitting from the portal more?

Watching these BIG 10 teams play, they look like they have all added pieces they need to compete with the SEC. They seem to have a good core of developed players and then im sure they have poached some good players out of our league. It’s obvious the SEC is where everyone is coming to poach players off the rosters. This of course has hurt the depth of Bama , UGA ect ect. Just makes you wonder if they are keeping more depth and sprinkling in a few additions to compete.
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In your opinion what was some of the creative or innovative play calling during the year….

I’m sure I am missing something but I can’t think of anything other than the fake punt against Texas. I just didn’t see any creativity or innovation of scheming receivers open at all. It seemed like every pass to our receivers was a 50/50 ball…..rarely seeing a receiver wide open or uncontested. We were next to last in the SEC in rushing the football. Not many boot leg play action or misdirection plays. I’m sure I’m overlooking something but watching this offense was like a dreaded trip to the dentist to me. Frustrating….I think we need to be able to run the ball better and that starts up front. We need to throw the ball when we want to….not when we have to. Creativity and the timing of certain plays being called is an art. Some people have that gift and some don’t. We weren’t nearly as talented as we were in the past, but I surely didn’t think we helped ourselves either in play calling to score points. Nothing at all seemed easy for this offense……everything seemed hard and it was trudgery to score. We scored 7 or less points in the first half of 8 of our games. Hard to survive that over and over. Here’s to a better 2025 season…..Go Dawgs!!

Warched with my family - my dad…

Who would rather watch a movie than watch sports* - was incredulous on the officiating. He knows football just doesn’t watch sports (thankfully, he went to South Carolina…my mom is diehard Dawg and went to Georgia along with all my aunts and uncles).
Anyway, he wrote an uncharacteristic text to our family group saying he was appalled at the officiating. Obviously the no calls on the roughing the punter but also the PI’s…but especially all the no called holds. I think the hold on Jackson on Riley’s first down run got him going.
It was interesting because he’s usually not that interested. But he does get upset when he thinks
people are being wronged.

*He is an incredible athlete - just rather play than watch. Even at 77 years old plays pick up soccer with young guys - mostly foreigners - and runs with them - he started playing soccer in his 60’s.
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