You won't win a NC if you run the ball more than 65% of the time. The last team to do that was Bama in 08 or 09 and they ran it 66% of the time. Osborne even said he'd run a spread offense if he was a coach in today's game.
What was he supposed say? "Oh, this team isn't very talented." You're criticizing him for being a leader and boosting up his new team. It is beyond ridiculous to complain about his statement.
Because other coaches would be running the ball more than 70% of the time it was actually successful. You can NOT be successful running the ball more than 70% of the time.
The last power 5 team to run the ball 70% or more (besides Georgia tech) was west Virginia in 2006 when they had Slaton and white. Apparently "run the ball" guys know more than the coaches of today. Maybe they should apply for head coaching jobs!
Not very good. I might look at the data before then as well. Even the heavy running teams have a 65:35 run to pass ratio. This whole "more than 70%" concept is absurd.
I'm going by the WHOLE year. They only ran the ball 63% of the time that whole year. This other guy thinks we need to run it over 70% but there have been ZERO power 5 schools who had a winning season who ran it over 70%. I went all the way back to 2009-2010
This dude wants to run the ball over 70% of the time yet Wisconsin has NEVER ran the ball that much. They're around 61% to 66% at their highest run percentage in past 20 years. I just looked it up.
You realize none of the national champions in the past 20 years has run the ball more than 70% of the time, right? If running the ball 70% of the time is the key to success then why aren't more teams doing it?
So you called them out when you were wrong and they were actually right. Regardless, by the rules, that was a facemask. You could just admit you were wrong.
You need a 60/40 or 55/45 split. If you look at the last 15 champions, they all had a 40/60 or 45/55 run to pass ratio. The only team that ran the ball more was one of the Alabama teams in the mid 2010s and they were 63 to 47 run to pass ratio I believe.