(10-26-2014 01:25 AM)EarthBoundMisfit Wrote:  

(10-25-2014 11:07 AM)pesik Wrote:  perspective:
1) you run an uptempo air raid based offense, TOP is irrelevant..if you aren't blowing teams out and running out clock in the end, you will have similar TOP especially passing 64 times and playing a huddle team

2) so if a team scores in 2-4 plays and another team scores on 14 play drives, while going for it numerous times on 4th down, the second one is better?..first down are irrelevant ..number of plays are irrelvent....

3) you cant take away plays from the game that happened, and your DBs were beat in both plays, you can argue if theyd have gotten the 10-20yds YAC for the TD, but they were catching the ball either way..so i dont know how youve decided to take out the act of throwing the ball all together....uconn can also play the what if game, uconn dropped a 50yd pass in the beginning of the game that was right in his hands or tick tack pi/late hit calls that extened the game winning drives...and uconn was passing on you, usf was passing on you and smu was passing on you (all statisically horrible), so lets not act like you have shutdown DBs who accidental tripped...also it was 2 not 3

4) "Held uconn to 84 yards rushing" their second highest rushing total of the season...and season high in passing yards

please stop trying to justify how you actually dominated uconn but he score didnt show it..you got your W take it .but stop trying to twist it into something it wasnt...

Seriously?
Time of possession is EVERYTHING. The number of plays run lesser in importance...but still important.
Teams that can score quickly are teams that you want to run the ball repeatedly against or sustain long drives. Wear out their defense, so that by the 4th quarter they are gassed.
By holding on to the ball and sustaining drives....you keep the opposing offense off the field.
In football that is EVERYTHING.

memphis doesnt run an air raid like houston or ecu so you dont understand...TOP is irrelevant in our offense....

facts

2011: time of possesion
houston 114 (of 120)
oregon 120 (of 120)
oklahoma state 115 (0f 120)

offensive ranking
houston #1
oregon #4
oklahoma state #3

record
houston 13-1
oregon 12-2
oklahoma state 12-1

uptempo teams will ALWAYS lose time of possesion

(10-25-2014 11:35 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  

(10-25-2014 11:07 AM)pesik Wrote:  perspective:
1) you run an uptempo air raid based offense, TOP is irrelevant..if you aren't blowing teams out and running out clock in the end, you will have similar TOP especially passing 64 times and playing a huddle team

What are you trying to say? You are trying to discredit the fact that we did a good job possessing the ball by saying the other team should have the ball longer.

im not eveen sure what you are trying to say

what i said, is that he is trying to say we did this and it was close because they had this TOP

im saying that TOP is no indication of anthing in our offense

(10-25-2014 04:49 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(10-25-2014 04:29 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  I think I agree with what you're getting at...We were in position to blow them out, but we didn't make the plays needed to.

More importantly, Marshall is currently losing to FAU 16-14 about midway through the 3rd quarter.

This, this, this, this, this, this.

ECU struggling with AAC teams only means anything if Marshall doesn't struggle with CUSA teams. If Marshall isn't beating Upper Kentucky at halftime and playing their third string in the fourth quarter, then it doesn't matter so much whether ECU beats UCOnn by a field goal or by 30.

ANd time-of-possession means less to an up-tempo Air-Raid type team because you're not designed to sit on the ball and grind out 80 yard 5 minute drives, you're designed for six/seven play one-minute one-TD drives.

Who cares, all that matters is the W.

(10-26-2014 09:00 AM)pesik Wrote:  

(10-25-2014 11:35 PM)DowdyPirate Wrote:  

(10-25-2014 11:07 AM)pesik Wrote:  perspective:
1) you run an uptempo air raid based offense, TOP is irrelevant..if you aren't blowing teams out and running out clock in the end, you will have similar TOP especially passing 64 times and playing a huddle team

What are you trying to say? You are trying to discredit the fact that we did a good job possessing the ball by saying the other team should have the ball longer.

im not eveen sure what you are trying to say

what i said, is that he is trying to say we did this and it was close because they had this TOP

im saying that TOP is no indication of anthing in our offense

No, he's trying to say we outplayed them because we had 11 minutes TOP advantage. Then you went on to say no you didn't outplay them because you should've done worse in the TOP department, when that's his point.