Friday fallback
October 5, 2012 by Mike CasazzaSo no F Double today. I’m learning some things about this Big 12 and one is that it’s going to take some time to get places. In order to get to Austin, I have to get to San Antonio first and since I want to get to Austin at a decent time, I have to leave early.
I’m already in the air by now on my second flight bound for San Antonio as you read this and with the way these weeks stack up now, I knew yesterday I wasn’t going to have time to do F Double properly.
Can’t promise you it won’t be the same story next week, but I’ll just try to use this past week as a learning experience and get a little better next week. This week won’t make be a worse blogger. In the long run, I think we’ll look back and see at it as a blessing.
Moving on, I’d be happy to hear your thoughts on the game and likely game plans and ideas you’ll see in play or whatever Gus Johnson drinking games you’ll have on the table.
Keep an eye on WVU’s five-receiver set, though. It debuted last week — and I mean debut in the sense there were five receivers and not four with a running back — but was a Baylor ploy because of the way the Mountaineers saw the Bears defending empty backfields.
Doesn’t necessarily mean WVU will do this against Texas because Texas might have a better and thus discouraging tactic to defend it. But it’s at least another caliber of weapon in WVU’s arsenal because it looks and works so well. And Shawne Alston isn’t traveling to Austin or playing in the game, so WVU is again without its full range of running backs and might have to think outside the box again.
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