(09-22-2013 01:53 PM)LATech95 Wrote: (09-22-2013 01:04 PM)T_Won1 Wrote: 95, we are running a no huddle, up-tempo spread offense this year. We are not running the Power I or the triple option. Our struggles are with poor OL play, poor WR play, and poor QB play (and turnovers in the red zone and FG kicking). This offense reminds me a lot of the Dykes/Franklin offense in Year 1 and 2. (Yes, it took 3 years for Dykes to find an offense at Tech).
I am not saying up tempo spread. I am saying pass the ball down the field. Throwing the bubble screens worked yesterday, but not everyone is as bad as Kansas. We run up the middle 2/3rds of the time or the little screens etc. I am talking about throwing the ball down field. This offense reminds me more of the OC Conroy Hines offense of the early to mid-2000s. Flash some talent and lots of frustratingly close losses. Player struggles are exasperating but not sure that long term I like our style of play. But I will celebrate every win we get and support the team no matter what. Just have a bad feeling about what I am seeing because I've seen this movie before and it did not end well.
This thread is such a broken record.
"Pass the ball down field"
"The QB is inexperienced."
"Pass the ball in the middle."
"The line can't block well enough."
[Take a narrow viewpoint and relate the current to the past - Bicknell, Williams, etc]
[Take a narrow viewpoint and relate the current to the current past - Dooley & Dykes]
Why do you guys have to be so egocentric and try to point to our own past or the near past of our coach (see USC and UCONN) to justify our current position? It's very simple. The team is young, we have a weak schedule, and we are in a dogfight every week because our D is our strength and we have no run OR pass protection. It's really easy to see what we SHOULD do, but that doesn't mean that we always can. I do not expect a RS Frosh to make a middle of the field throw, 3 reads into his progression, with 2 defenders in his face; and you shouldn't either. Holtz had 3 crappy years at an upstart school in the only state with a more ludicrous amount of universities than Louisiana, and he's only had 3
games in Ruston. So please, stop crying Bicknell before we even have a change to be INelligible for a bowl in his first year.