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Ian Boyd analysis of our “offense”

4th. down

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I've noticed a problematic trend. Very easy to see from a simple fans point of view. Almost every time we have a successful play to either get a first down or multiple yards downfield whichever player ran that play gets a second straight play called for him even though he may be gassed and tired after a long run. Example Barlow had a long sixty plus yard run against T Tech and the very next play the offensive geniuses gave him the ball again, this time for a loss because he had not recovered from the long run. If I can see this trend/habit don't you think opposing coaches see it? This is an example of our offensive ineptitude.
Go Frogs!

Couldn't believe we did that and our best performing power back, Miller, on the bench. Miller probably won't break a long one on you but he does move those chains.
 

Eight

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Well said.

My question is that is it too much to expect our offense to avg. 34 pts./game in conf? With our skill set, that doesn't seem to be an unreasonable expectation. 1 TD per quarter and 2 field goals wouid seem obtainable with a reasonable offensive scheme. If that were the case, we would have picked up 10 more conf. wins over the past 2 seasons and we would not be complaining...well, maybe a little.

quick back of the napkin math says yes to your question based upon history since joining the big 12

here are the points per game for each season with ppg in conference games in parenthesis

2012 - 28.3 (25.4)
2013 - 25.1 (20.9)
2014 - 46.5 (52.2)
2015
- 42.1 (39.0)
2016 - 31.0 (27.8)
2017 - 33.1 (26.2)
2018 - 23.5 (19.0)
2019 - 30.3 (28.1)
2020 - 24.0 (24.0)

impossible to do? no, but improbable right now.

the big question is were 2014 & 2015 just outliers or what could be possible if gary allowed them to run the hunh?
 
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Froggish

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quick back of the napkin math says yes to your question based upon history since joining the big 12

here are the points per game for each season with ppg in conference games in parenthesis

2012 - 28.3 (25.4)
2013 - 25.1 (20.9)
2014 - 46.5 (52.2)
2015
- 42.1 (39.0)
2016 - 31.0 (27.8)
2017 - 33.1 (26.2)
2018 - 23.5 (19.0)
2019 - 30.3 (28.1)
2020 - 24.0 (24.0)

impossible to do? no, but improbable right now.

the big question is where 2014 & 2015 just outliers or what could be possible if gary allowed them to run the hunh?

Outliers.... No doubt in my mind
 

jake102

Active Member
quick back of the napkin math says yes to your question based upon history since joining the big 12

here are the points per game for each season with ppg in conference games in parenthesis

2012 - 28.3 (25.4)
2013 - 25.1 (20.9)
2014 - 46.5 (52.2)
2015
- 42.1 (39.0)
2016 - 31.0 (27.8)
2017 - 33.1 (26.2)
2018 - 23.5 (19.0)
2019 - 30.3 (28.1)
2020 - 24.0 (24.0)

impossible to do? no, but improbable right now.

the big question is were 2014 & 2015 just outliers or what could be possible if gary allowed them to run the hunh?

Pitiful. Wonder what those look like when removing body bag game, SMU and Kansas.

Here's yard/play rank out of ~125 teams
2012 -#71
2013 - #105
2014 - #11
2015 - #14
2016 - #41
2017 - #39
2018 - #101
2019 - #92
2020 - #88

Average of #62. I think 2016 is interesting. That could have been a pretty solid year but we had our worst defense in a while and a bad TO margin
 

4th. down

Active Member
OUTLIER, it was the perfect storm. Reality says so. look what we've done since, and that includes the "Fixer" with us running the offensive show now. It's depressing but GP is lost, the "Fixer" has proved it.
 

westoverhillbilly

Active Member
Many of our problems are a result of having a mediocre (or less than) passing quarterback. I so want Max to succeed and perhaps next year (his third) will be the charm (like Boykin and to a different degree Dalton), but as of now he just misses to many throws. Obviously our offensive line isn't good either.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Gary may tell some of his offensive staff to clear their desks at year end, or reassign them to the film room so as to keep recruits here.
 

CountryFrog

Active Member
Sad thing is that we are almost certainly going to finish with a better conference record than last year by at least one game. So Gary will be able to say that we're improving and moving in the right direction with the way things are so no reason to change it up. Even though we all know the only real difference between last year and this year is that Baylor being significantly worse made it easier to get one more win.
 

Eight

Member
Pitiful. Wonder what those look like when removing body bag game, SMU and Kansas.

Here's yard/play rank out of ~125 teams
2012 -#71
2013 - #105
2014 - #11
2015 - #14
2016 - #41
2017 - #39
2018 - #101
2019 - #92
2020 - #88

Average of #62. I think 2016 is interesting. That could have been a pretty solid year but we had our worst defense in a while and a bad TO margin

2013 was a truly miserable season for a number of reasons somehow surpasses 2018 for offensive ineptitude
 

bmoney214

OUCH!!!
While I tend to agree with Eight's response if we don't at the absolute bare arse minimum put real resources into bringing in a competent OL coach then whatever benefit of the doubt I'm currently giving GP will be totally gone.
But why bring in just an OL coach when you have a lame duck OC and assistant OC? Bring in a new OC and let him pick his own position coaches.
 
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