UNLV coach Barry Odom is popping to Oregon’s Dan Lanning for inspiration.
Odom’s Rebels tackle Boise State and Heisman frontrunner Ashton Jeanty on Friday evening in an enormous Mountain West showdown. Nobody has been in a position to sluggish Jeanty down to date this season as he’s been probably the most dominant offensive participant in school soccer. However Odom now has a brand new thought. He joked Monday at his information convention that he would attempt to replicate what Lanning famously did on the finish of Oregon’s win over Ohio State.
“No person’s actually had a terrific reply for it but,” Odom mentioned. “As a result of they’ve bought good gamers elsewhere that may make you pay for those who put everyone inside to attempt to cease the run, there’s going to need to be a steadiness. [Oregon coach Dan] Lanning’s getting all types of credit score for taking part in with 12 [players] on that final play so I wish to see if we are able to sneak 12 or 13 on the market and see how lengthy we get away with it.”
Oregon’s 12-men penalty with 10 seconds to go of their 32-31 win drained 4 seconds off the clock in change for 5 yards. The sport ended on the following play when Ohio State ran out of time. The tactic was so profitable and controversial that the NCAA even issued an in-season rule change to make sure that no time would run off within the remaining two minutes of a half if a workforce tried to duplicate what Oregon did.
If Odom was truly critical about his thought to decelerate Jeanty, there’s no assure it could work, both. The junior has 126 carries for 1,248 yards and 17 scores by way of six video games this season. He’s rushed for simply 29 fewer yards than Boise State beginning QB Maddux Madsen has thrown for and he’s averaging 9.9 yards a carry.
Lanning and his teaching workers additionally could not sluggish him down with 11 gamers on the sector, both. In a 37-34 loss to Oregon in Week 2, Jeanty had 25 carries for 192 yards and three scores.
Jeanty has additionally excelled in opposition to numerous defenders within the field. In keeping with TruMedia’s superior statistics, Jeanty has 44 carries for 347 yards and eight scores when opposing groups put between eight and 10 gamers within the field to attempt to sluggish him down. Stats like which can be why Odom ran out phrases to explain how good Jeanty has been.
“He runs so onerous, he runs behind his pads, he’s bought nice imaginative and prescient, he’s bought a superb offensive line and tight ends that block for him,” Odom mentioned. “He’s bought nice energy, physique management, leverage, he’s robust, he’s quick, he’s fast, he’s sturdy. I don’t know descriptive phrases — if I’ve touched on sufficient to present him the respect of how nice a participant he’s.”
