I'd personally like under center more in certain situations. Just getting a little tired of the fake jet sweep constant motioning for a simple 3rd or 4th and 1. Be better than the D-Line and ram it up in there and get it done. If it's from the gun, fine, but the extra motion seems obnoxious at this point. Maybe I'm just frustrated by weird red zone motioning and lack of productivity.
I would love if we could like up nose to nose and run it right at people. Reality is that we're not there. Look at these two depth charts:
LT - Sr
LG - RS Sr
C - RS Sr
RG - RS Fr
RT - RS Fr
That's what we looked like last week...Here's what NW looked like:
DE - SO
DT - RS SR
DT - SR
DE - SR
SAM - SR (Pre-season All Big 10
MLB - RS SR (Pre-season All American + All Big 10)
WILL - SR
The jet sweeps and misdirection are supposed to negate that experience. Get the linebackers eyes focused on a bunch of different reads.
Why does everyone sit there and think that we should've be able to line up and run it right down their throats. Their Front seven had 6 seniors and 1 Sophomore. We had a back-up center, and back-up Freshman guard in there. They're also built to stop the run. Their D-Line holds ground, takes up blockers, and let's very experienced linebackers make plays. Their game plan is to not get gashed and make people earn it on every drive.
They held Maryland to 64 yards rushing and 3 yards per rush. They held Cockeye to 77 yards rushing and 3 yards per rush. Nebraska had 224 yards rushing and 5.2 yards per rush. A lot of that was because of QB runs and those jet sweep misdirection plays. Why think that just because we got inside the 5 that we could switch it up in the i formation and run it right at them? That misdirection worked on MIll's first touchdown.
We made mistakes inside the Redzone, there were some coaching mistakes inside the redzone, there were mistakes by players inside the redzone. But this was not as poorly coached of a game as everyone seems to think.