Jake Butt discusses TRAIN
https://twitter.com/BigTenNetwork/status/1590752137394679809
Huge fan of Jake as a commentator. I love that the TRAIN nomenclature was actually what the team referred to it as well.
November 10th, 2022 at 2:07 PM ^
Pretty cool
Ive said it before and I will say it again. Jay Harbaugh will be a great HC someday. He's likeable, creative, and seems to excel with whatever group he is coaching at the time.
November 10th, 2022 at 4:14 PM ^
Maybe not when he coached RB's
November 10th, 2022 at 4:28 PM ^
Could you elaborate? I thought the general consensus around here was he was a fantastic RB evaluator and recruiter.
November 10th, 2022 at 7:05 PM ^
He has been fantastic recruiting wise with running backs, nobody can deny that, but the weird substitutions and inconsistent play have gone away since Hart took over.
November 10th, 2022 at 7:08 PM ^
I thought that Jay was a decent RB coach. Hart just appears to be one of the best.
November 10th, 2022 at 8:08 PM ^
The weird substitutions were not Jay's issue. He did a good job with the RBs and it's notable that he was the coach for Hassan Haskins for all but Hassan's final year.
November 10th, 2022 at 2:08 PM ^
Good lord, Jake Butt, TJ Wheatley, Devin Asiasi, and Khalid Hill all in at the same time. I forgot how good and deep our tight ends were that year.
November 10th, 2022 at 2:14 PM ^
Haven’t been good since Drops of Jupiter tbh
November 10th, 2022 at 2:53 PM ^
HEYYYY SOUL SISTA
November 10th, 2022 at 3:25 PM ^
I can't stand that fucking band. Cringey AF, and always has been.
November 10th, 2022 at 4:04 PM ^
Apparently you have yet to Meet Virginia
November 10th, 2022 at 2:17 PM ^
Jaybaugh in line to be next co-OC when one of the current two inevitably leaves in the next couple years?
November 10th, 2022 at 2:30 PM ^
Kind of has to be rewarded at some point. Feels like he's had the Midas touch.
November 10th, 2022 at 2:19 PM ^
Interesting background on the formation. Makes it all the better to imagine a son telling his dad about what he saw at a game and thinks they should try it, and they get a score from it. Cool, cool stuff.
November 10th, 2022 at 2:25 PM ^
Butt, train, the joke just writes itself at this point...
November 10th, 2022 at 3:11 PM ^
How about how deep our tight ends were? Sheeesh
November 10th, 2022 at 2:50 PM ^
Now that she's back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair
She acts like summer and walks like rain
November 11th, 2022 at 10:48 AM ^
Reminds me that there's a time to change, hey
November 10th, 2022 at 3:13 PM ^
Very cool. Thanks for posting.
November 10th, 2022 at 3:43 PM ^
I recall an infraction called against Michigan several years ago. So, what was the infraction? "Intent to deceive. Yes, Michigan received a five or ten yard penalty, when they were on offense.
This call was interesting to me. Isn't the objective of the game - and a team's scheme, to deceive the opponent?
November 10th, 2022 at 3:48 PM ^
Yup, that was Jake "running off the field" but stopped at the sideline and never left. No one tracked him, he got a wide open first down. Called back though for intent to deceive.
November 10th, 2022 at 6:10 PM ^
same play Ohio State pulled in the 98 Sugar Bowl against Florida State
November 10th, 2022 at 4:07 PM ^
I guess that official would call every play-action pass an intent to deceive since the QB faked a hand off. A pump fake would probably qualify as well. "That's not fair, you made the safety move the wrong way!"
November 10th, 2022 at 7:39 PM ^
The penalty was for Jake Butt simulating a substitution. It's covered here. While I was looking for the rule. I found out they used Jake Butt's number, and exactly what happened, in the NCAA rule book to further explain this rule.
https://rulebook.github.io/en/interpretations/rules/9/#unfair-tactics-article-2
After the down is over, Team A sends in three substitutes, and three players begin to leave the field. A88, who participated in the previous play, trails the three replaced players toward the Team A sideline. The three replaced players continue into the team area, but A88 stops and sets up on the line of scrimmage very close to the sideline. After the ball is snapped A88 runs down the sideline and catches a forward pass. RULING: Team A at the snap, unsportsmanlike conduct for unfair tactics: using the substitution process to deceive the opponents. Live-ball foul. Penalty: 15 yards at the previous spot.
November 10th, 2022 at 4:42 PM ^
My son's obsession with Thomas the Train scarred me for life. That just gave me PTSD.
November 10th, 2022 at 8:14 PM ^
This is great. Wish it stayed on the front page longer.
Tons of insight here:
- The variety of sources plays come from. Particularly early in the Harbaugh era. Jay picked this up from a HS. Of course, lots of coaches get this.
- The route combos. One side is a man-beater, the other side is a zone-beater. That's pretty normal, and definitely a normal Harbaugh practice. Part of why pre-snap reads tend to focus the QB on one side of the formation--the plays are pre-designed to attack multiple potential defenses.
- The way they design a zone-beating concept, with receivers assigned a certain spot to arrive at.
- Even a bit of insight into how Jake runs the route
This is really, really cool.
November 10th, 2022 at 9:40 PM ^
I hate urban Meyer, but he was on big ten today or whatever the other day and was explaining that when he couldn’t figure out what the opposing D was doing they ran 3-level routes to one side of the field that worked equally well against man and zone and I was thinking…simple, effective, maybe, we’re making it too hard for our O at times.