Indiana DC Reacts to Ty Simpson's 'Adorable' Recount of Rose Bowl
Hoosiers defensive coordinator Bryant Haines claims that "we saw everything they were doing on every single snap" during the blowout in Pasadena.
"From my point of view, I was like, they don't do much," Simpson said. "I was like, they do the same thing every down. " So when I got the ball, I knew exactly what was going to happen. They just didn't mess up, bro. They were in the exact same spot they were supposed to be. They were so well-coached. It was so much different than the SEC. [The SEC] will play man, they'll do these unorthodox coverages because that's kind of how it is.
"Adorable," Haines wrote. "We also, saw everything they were doing, on every single snap… It’s just that we exploited those cues. And didn’t get frozen and crushed by them."
Anybody following the fallout to this story?
I read about it on X. I didn't hear the podcast (with Caleb Downs) in question, but I've read the transcript of what Ty said and then some of the insecure responses of the Indiana DC, Bryant Haines.
The Indiana DC took Ty's comments as criticism instead of a compliment, and his responses have been an embarrassment to him, even among non-Bama loyalists.
Indiana DC's over-sensitivity to this really makes me go "hmmm." If they scouted us and legally figured us out...that's good coaching. But he didn't stop there and he double-downed on X and that's when his comments got more embarrassing.
It seems Ty actually saying he knew what they were doing because they were NOT doing anything special sent him over the edge.
IDK. So what do y'all think about the DC's comments and over-sensitivity to this??? It actually plays right into the narrative that this might have been more than just "great coaching." I'm not usually into conspiracies, but this one smells kinda funny to me.
BTW, it gets lost in the narrative, but we were driving the ball in the second quarter when it was only 10-0 when Ty broke a rib. At that point, the game wasn't out of reach, especially if we put up 7! Is it possible Ty was starting to understand what was going on??? But then he got hurt.
