Breakdown Sports

Apparently I missed this blogs birthday. I am not a good father to my blog. Anyway, the blog is now over two years old and has steadily been getting more and more readers, which I really appreciate. Dog happy for cupcake, unhappy he has to wear a stupid hat Thank you to all the blogs that have linked me along the way; as well as the radio interviews and podcasts. A few I'd like to thank personally: Illinois The Champaign Room Indiana The Crimson Quarry Punt John Punt Michigan MGoBlog Maize n Brew GBM Wolverine 247 Michigan Board Michigan State The Only Colors Red Cedar Message Board Minnesota The Daily Gopher Nebraska huskermax.com Corn Nation Husker Board Unsportsmanlike Conduct  (Nebraska Radio) Northwestern Inside NU Ohio State Land-Grant Holy Land Eleven Warriors Wisconsin Bucky's 5th Quarter Buck Around All-Around Football James Light Blog As always, if you have requests for things you'd like to see, I'm all ears. I...

Alright, not quite off-season for all you folks out there, but I'm beginning prep on the things I plan to bring to the table for this upcoming off-season. With this brief piece, I want to lay out a bit where the path forward is for this off-season and this blog, plans for some different types of posts, etc. Also, there is now a quite little Amazon link above. If you are doing some Christmas shopping, and want to click that link and then doing your Amazon shopping, that would be awesome and appreciated. 1. Continue to build the foundation of " Football Fundamentals " This part is probably the most important thing for the off-season for me. The Football Fundamentals section should start: building on several position-by-position high level information; continue to break down specific concepts (coverage, route combinations, blocking combinations, etc). This will help for what I envision this blog going forward. 2. Go back and scout team specific aspects In...

There is this website that I love. It just so happens that my wife probably hates this website, despite the fact she doesn't know it exists. If you enjoy this blog, you will enjoy this website is well. All of that is because this website features hundreds of complete games throughout the past couple years, and instances where it goes back even further than that. This website is NOONKICK It has been a fantastic resource for me, especially as my own DVR fills up with some combination of football games and classic movies off of TMC (and whatever reality show from TLC is on there because my wife). Missed a great game? It'll likely be on Noon Kick within a week. Remember a play and wanted to watch it again? Noon Kick. Just want to watch college football because college football is the best? Noon Kick. So seriously, check it out, follow him on twitter, watch more football, and in the meantime, don't forget your significant other at least for a few hours a week. ...

I've been a member of MGoBlog  since 2009. I read MGoBlog before that, when it was a part of the blog-o-sphere that my current blog is attached to, because of the detail I saw in his Brian's UFRs. I was enthralled with the passion and dedication, and loved the fact that it broke down each play, nearly player-by-player. What a resource. [This is full, long-winded drama after this, please don't read on if you don't care; most of you won't care]

TL;DR - Not enough pictures. I am sorry for that. This is a meta post. I tried to diagram that and failed. This will be an odd circumstance where a post doesn't have a diagram. Sorry. So I wanted to do a State of the Blog post for a while now, and now that the regular season has wrapped, this seems like a good time do have such a thing. There are lots of people I would like to thank, but I'll save that for the end just in case that's not something everyone wants to read. What I want to address here is what I see from this blog, other projects I'll be working on, and where we go from here. Breakdown Sports Readership has gradually increased since the start of this blog, which is great. Much of this is still Michigan based readership, which I expected, but I've been lucky enough to expand a little bit, mostly to the Michigan State and Ohio State fanbase. I'd like to expand more, as I really want the focus of this blog to be B1G-based more than just Michi...