Tuesday Recycle: Sam Houston State Film Review

Really, I'm not doing much recycling of content lately as you can check all of the main KU football stories on our KU football news page and nothing too revolutionary comes through anyway. So let's just consider this me recycling my own content:

After checking a little bit of the film, I thought it should be noted that Chris Harris is a great open field tackler. The other new corners could really take a tip from what Chris did last year -- he made sure he never let anyone get behind him and then he damn sure made the tackle in front of him. That'll get you a long way as a corner.

I kind of liked what Sam Houston State did to us defensively. I guess you can't quite call it a success as we scored 38 points, but only putting two guys in the three point stance, seemed to give them a tactical edge. They dropped eight on occasion and did a few cleverly disguised blitzes that were effective. At least once, they dropped nine back in coverage.

On the failed fourth and inches, Rich Baldinger was calling out Jeff Spikes (I think) for not getting low enough and allowing the d-lineman to submarine in. True, but the guard was just as guilty. I'm pretty sure it was Adrian Mayes. At the stadium, I was blaming Ryan Cantrell, but on the video it looks like he did his job for the play called. Anyway ... blocking fundamentals -- keep working on it.

Actually, the o-line has really developed slow pretty much each year under Mark Mangino -- except 2007. All the more reason to schedule winnable games in September.