Manning fired yet?
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Campbell always says he'd rather play someone too late than too early, throwing him out there against Notre Dame's DL wouldn't be good for anyone. He has 8+ months until the season starts with a tune up against South Dakota.
There was a reason he was let go. He was an ******* and the players hated him. Remember Klanakis
I don’t disagree going under center, with the assumption it’s regularly practiced ahead of time.
Oddly enough the offense hardly looked comfortable with plays they did run in some 4th and shortish plays or plays after they'd gotten rolling a bit.
OC feels comfortable throwing that out there but not working on a sneak often enough to run it.
Agree with most of your statements in this thread, but disagree with the bolded. Campbell and Manning will forget more football theory than most of us will ever learn, and they countered ND significantly with our last possession of the first half (clock management in the red zone notwithstanding).
In reality we have a couple of conflicts when the short to intermediate passing game is schemed away. First, we didn't have a line that could bully and lean on guys consistently to force more concern for the run game. Second, over correcting to just downfield throws will give a defense the opportunity to pin its ears back and create a whole other host of issues.
Lastly, as Jay as pointed out a number of times, towards the end of the season the offense has seen more combo coverage to take away timing and rhythm. This is something that can be countered with a more experienced play caller and QB, both of which should happen in the offseason and 2020.
Not that it matters much, but I thought Manning's initial gameplan and script was solid. Pull a LT to lead for Hall? Beautiful. Quick hits in the passing game to get the ball to our playmakers - basically what everyone wanted all season.
Problem again was spotty execution and getting behind on the scoreboard early.
That and the fact their entire line was 2 yards in the backfield on our 4th down play. So, I'm guessing a sneak wouldn't have worked anyway.
I think it’s pretty funny that you think a P5 OC needs to go apprentice under someone for 6 months. Who does a person at that level apprentice under? If he needed to go do that then he wouldn’t be at his spot right now u less you think Campbell is an amateur and an idiot.
The median points at the end of regulation was 25, if you want to include the bowl game. That ULM game really skews our average (though we did score 40+ in regulation 3 times). We moved the ball a ton, which correlates well with winning games and yielded some good analytics for us, but we didn't turn those yards into points often enough.
Of course they don’t count. Neither does scoring 72 points against a non-conference team that went 5-7. We also averaged 32 points a game in just conference games but nobody wants to talk about the body of work.
