K-State Football: Looking back at loss to TCU Horned Frogs

The Offense

The K-State offense was put in an impossible situation with the Ertz injury. TCU came in having held two different teams under ten points. K-State was trotting out a quarterback for his first career start with ten career pass attempts. It went exactly how you would predict.

Delton looked completely overwhelmed as he completed 11 of 29 pass attempts for 156 yards. His QBR was 5.7. It’s the worst QBR in at least the last five years, but this isn’t meant to be an Alex Delton hit piece. I don’t know what else was expected. The game plan, engineered by Dana Dimel, was simply awful.

Gone is the day K-State lines up and out-executes the other team.

Delton ran the ball 19 times. Justin Silmon got five carries, Alex Barnes got four carries and Winston Dimel got one. That’s a 19 to 10 split in favor of the quarterback. None of it really worked as K-State ran 29 times for 70 yards and 2.4 yards per carry. Despite running the ball being a pride thing with the Wildcats, it’s the second best performance by TCU at stopping the run.

Dana Dimel basically created an offensive game-plan that required Alex Delton, in his first career start, to beat the Horned Frogs through the air. While that frustrates me to no end, I at least understand why.

Gone is the day K-State lines up and out-executes the other team. We’ve now become the team that has no identity and will try something, or anything, to try and win. It’s not working.

I think we are approaching the end of the Dana Dimel era. Or we should be.