WaGriz4life said:
That didn’t have to do with Troy’s speed. It was a very well schemed play where UM knew if they went 11 personnel and then motioned Junior to the slot on the strong side what MSU’s check would be and it’s wide open if you snap the ball quick, which we did, and have a big time athlete like Junior out of the backfield. I’m not sure if Junior ran track.
Almost nothing you are saying here is accurate. Yes, Montana were in 11 which they are 80% of the time and more like 100% early in the play count. Yeah, we motioned the back which might be revolutionary in a town where an engineering school didn't know snow accumulates on a flat roof, but isn't anything new in a place where keno isn't the new bingo.
Ball is snapped, Grossman runs a throw away route; 47 turns his hips but quickly reads that Bergen is coming out right behind our tight end. Anderson looks like a kid who just saw his first boob, he's spying the backfield like he's Adam and Eve just showed up without fig leaves. 47 is still thinking zone and hoping that Anderson will pick one of them, meanwhile the safeties were trying to set up shell coverage. They never expected guys running through like Fargo residents with a coupon at Golden Corral. If Cole wasn't so well coached he could have just run a go instead of breaking it off and he would have scored.
The only reason the play didn't have to do with Troy's speed is that I was closer to Bergen when he caught it than Troy was and I watched the game on line from a different country.