brophog

Still can't get people to go to the games.

It is, but ECU is legitimately one of the worst teams in the country.

The bold police called. Citing issued for lack of boldness.

I think we will win. Grace Harmon hasn't been right yet.

I wouldn't use the word dumb, but you are being incredibly mean to Frost for starting this thread. Setting really high expectations, especially ones that are nearly unachievable, is the meanest thing you can do in a profession that is judged based on expectations. The title alone does just that. Any four letter word you can yell at the coach from the stands is nicer than calling him a genius, for instance. That word sets an expectation that can't be met, but is still used against the coach. Nobody should ever call a coach that. The irony of this thread is that its title does exactly what Frost has been telling the media not to do in his pressers. Every time they try to build this season up or suggest that UCF has "arrived" he shoots them down. What do you think a coach like that would think of this thread title?

Go back and read every post I had on that game, including weeks prior to it and then see if you can still say that. They are as true today as they were then.

I don't think this is supposed to be taken literally. It's practically impossible to design an offense that isn't better with at least some run threat at the QB position.

Yeah, it put them in long down and distance that led to a lot of incompletions, and that really prevented them from playing like they wanted. In this regard, I don't like what I heard in Diaco's press conference. He seems to present this as a 19 minute game, citing the score at 1:20 in the first half ( the big TD run) and near the third quarter as examples of acceptable score differentials. He focuses on the final three drives where Wisconsin ran the ball up and down the field, rather than the entire game. I can understand tryin to be positive to the media and presenting this as a correctable situation, especially with such a dominant opponent coming to town, but I hope privately he realizes this started well before the second half.

They're doing better and he's doing better. QBs themselves play a huge role in terms of sacks and pressures.

Minnesota had a game this week against Purdue in which Purdue had 4 first half turnovers and Purdue still won. How do lose a game in which you get four first half turnovers? The first drive says it all: 3 plays, 1 yard, punt for 11 yards. That's pretty much how their day went.

I think Northwestern is the best of those three, though they seem have a problem keeping their QB upright. That Minnesota-Purdue game wasn't pretty for either side. The difference between those three probably isn't much, though.

I'll have the ham and cheese, hold the mayo.

I think I waste my time on these boards...writes about looking at things besides records, sees following two pages about records.

I believe Taylor had 1 run in the first half that went for less than 4 yds, and had long runs of 30 and 75.

UCF's in game dominance skews this ratio because teams are generally playing from behind. If we contrast this with UCF's per play averages we get. Rushing YPC 3.2 (17) Passing YPA 6.5 (33) Nebraska, playing more neutrally dominated games ranks 70, 45.

We probably won't see a growing gap, for two reasons. First, Nebraska's numbers are already pretty pedestrian, so we aren't likely to see a huge drop off due to schedule. Second, UCF's numbers are still a bit inflated due to the number of games. If anything, they'll regress slightly to the mean as their number of games increase.

They ran on 3rd in goal with like 100 linemen and a DT as the FB. You can't get much more smash mouth than that.

That makes two of us.

Oklahoma beats Ohio St Ohio St beats Maryland Maryland beats Texas Texas beats Iowa St Iowa St beats Oklahoma You don't think Iowa St can beat Iowa St?

Or passing attack. You say outside run, I say slant route. Frankly, I'm not sure that our route tree isn't more limited than our run block schemes. It's just hard to see due to camera angles.

A lot of my posts can be summed up as situational football. Rutgers was an example where we are talking about how halftime is a rare opportunity in an alternate possession game to get two possessions (Nebraska didn't manage that well). Last night we talked about the last play before half and how Chryst and Riley failed to play call around a potential 4th down when in that 35-40 yd area (something we talked about UCF doing well a few weeks back). This highlight video has a brief snippet of halftime in which UCF is leading by 21 and Frost is worried about his opponent potentially scoring first because the rain is coming. How many games ever get cut short like this, and yet he's already planning for the possibility. That's situational football. If anything comes out of anything I've ever posted, I hope it is to look not at the results but at the "why". I don't care about wins and losses and records and resumes, I care about "why" because if you understand why something happens you can repeat the process. i think that says a lot about why I like certain coaches and don't prefer others.

I know they've been easily covering some big spreads and Nebraska, well, hasn't, but wow is that eye opening.

But as I wrote about Cook a few years ago when this debate was raging, sub-60% passers rarely find any success in the NFL, and Lee is well and consistently short of that mark.

That's basically it, except for number 6, which they try to define but don't quite get there. Multiple is the word they want. "Balance" doesn't make you unpredictable, it's does just the opposite. There's nothing magical about equality, which is what balance implies, but there is value in doing multiple things, using multiple formations, throwing to multiple targets, having multiple run options, etc. I know it sounds picky, but I rail on this so much because this is exactly why Langs offense is so predictable.

There's certainly been some improvements from the first three to the second three, though that's mostly because the first three set the bar so low.