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Topic: RE: WHY DID WE START SPRAGUE!?

Topic: RE: WHY DID WE START SPRAGUE!?

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Cats2014
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RE: WHY DID WE START SPRAGUE!?

Posted: 10/27/2014 4:12:59 PM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

UpSan Bobcat wrote:

GoCats105 wrote:

Something to chew on: UMass QB Blake Frohnapfel is currently 2nd in the nation in total passing yards. If it weren't for Connor Halliday and Mike Leach's ridiculous numbers in the Air Raid at Wazzu, Frohnapfel could technically be leading the country.

Say what you want about UMass' 2-7 record, but outside blowout losses to Penn State and B.C., they've been in every single game they've played this year because they can score points. They've lost five games to Colorado, Vanderbilt, BG, Miami and Toledo by a combined score of 19 points. Why can't Ohio have an offense like that?

Ohio had something like eight starters on offense graduate, including all-time greats at quarterback and running back. Everyone should have known we were in for a tough year offensively.

How come in 2011 we installed an entirely new offense, had a first year starter at quarterback but still managed to shatter offensive records and win 10 games, including a bowl? I'm starting to think, in hingsight, Tettleton was even better than we thought. Were we less predictable then, or just executing better? Better talent? At the risk of agreeing with Monroe, I think we've become slower and less dynamic on offense. We rarely throw screens and have NO short passing game to speak of. little to no misdirection in the run game and, as mentioned, the half-assed fakes.

It comes down to TALENT. When your team has TALENT, there is less talk about the offense, coaching, blah blah blah. I couldn't care less about the offensive strategies, etc. If you have TALENT, you can win with any play you call. If we had some bull running backs (6'1 plus, 220 lbs.) and WR's (6'1, 6'2, 6'3) and talented, we would be fine. We are struggling with size and TALENT. Forget about everything else. We need to go out on the road, into homes, across the table from parents and kids and RECRUIT.

OhioCatFan
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RE: WHY DID WE START SPRAGUE!?

Posted: 10/27/2014 5:16:18 PM

Cats2014 wrote:

. . . . If you have TALENT, you can win with any play you call. . . .

A. This is simply not true.

B. We do have talent. It is young, particularly on the offensive side. We have guys who have not even seen field this year who have talent. We have talent on the field that is raw but getting better. We have a new, innovative defense scheme that, as I understand it, is not run by many teams, and once mastered it should give us a leg up because most teams will not face it too often in a season. Frank could have decided to "play it safe" and run the same defense this year and bring in a few JUCOs to jazz up the offense for this year, but he decided to build the program not his short-term W/L ledger.

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L.C.
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RE: WHY DID WE START SPRAGUE!?

Posted: 10/27/2014 5:23:28 PM

They did bring one JUCO to plug the most glaring weak spot in the offense, TE, however Boland has been out with injury, and has yet to play.

�We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.� ― Epictetus

Bcat2
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RE: WHY DID WE START SPRAGUE!?

Posted: 10/27/2014 5:43:31 PM

L.C. wrote:

They did bring one JUCO to plug the most glaring weak spot in the offense, TE, however Boland has been out with injury, and has yet to play.

JUCOs & transfers. This season WRs too, last season, another TE, season before DTs, before DE & WR. There are few rocks the Ohio staff don't turn over to find talent.

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