(09-12-2021, 04:27 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(09-12-2021, 04:24 PM)LMD Wrote: While I understand after this debacle, this question will look like pouring salt in the wound, but I'm legitimately curious if anyone knows the logic behind this: JRob (the team's best offensive player last year) finishes the day with 5 official carries and 7 passes thrown his way while Hyde finishes with 8 official carries and 1 pass thrown his way. If this was the offensive gameplan, why did they take a RB in the first round? Or was ETN so important to Meyer's gameplan that this team doesn't have any plan without ETN?

The backs should've had 40 carries in this game, that they don't is an indictment of the coaching.

No disagreement from me. I tend to stay away from the board during the off-season because I'm generally a cynical pessimist and don't want to drag everyone down during the only time of the year when there's unmitigated hope, so I wasn't really around complaining about the ETN pick, even though I disagreed with taking a RB so high. Now that we've, apparently, seen UM's offensive gameplan, which doesn't include using the RB, I'm even more confused now about their taking a RB so high than I was at the time of the draft. Just looking for some help understanding the move, if anyone can provide it.

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