WTKA Roundtable 10/29/2026: That is a Puzzle

Things Discussed:

• Beck'd. When he wasn't fired on Sunday it became a Whittingham problem.
• Best playcall: Counter Draw in redzone, but the OL can't pick up a stunt. That's something IU does all the time.
• What was different at Utah? They had a base, and their players were prepared to run their base against all sorts of tricks, so their opponents had to play them honestly.
• Stretch? It works against stunting—you can see that when Michigan stunted—but Michigan didn't teach how to deal with other counters, so when they ran it and got something other than stunts they were defeated by all the little tricks of a team that prepared for it.
• Offensive coordinating is not pressing the right playcall button, and it's not chess either. In chess you don't have to teach the pawns how to execute an en passant. Beck's job is to put together a gameplan based on what the other team does and you do, and then have the assistants prep to that gameplan.
• Rhino: was a disaster in this game, because Beigel is a German DT who's been out for weeks, and doesn't know what he's doing.
• No, we didn't talk about anything else. What else is there to talk about (unless it's basketball or hockey, but we ran out of time, sorry).