Recent content by GoldenTornado

The last two seasons were our two poorest rushing teams under PJ, by pretty big margins. They were especially bad early in the season, when we played Clemson. This one seems a good bit better to me. Venables has been there since 2012, and his strongest defense was in 2014. It's true we've...

Rewatched the game when I got home. Anyone else think that Saint-Amour would have had a good chance at recovering the bad snap fumble if he wasn't being held by his facemask? I guess any Wake penalty there would have been half the distance to the goal, so it can't really cost Wake anything...

Phil Steele calls it "flight delay" when a heavily run-oriented team like 1990's Nebraska switches to a pass-heavy offensive scheme. He always strongly implied that it's harder to switch from running to passing than it is to switch from passing to running. He doesn't talk about it nearly as...

I created a spreadsheet with data from http://cfbstats.com. There are a few mistakes pointed out by @presjacket that I haven't fixed yet. If you PM me a google account name I'll share it with you. They sell their datasets as CSV's. I don't know how much it costs, but it isn't cheap...

Totally agreed. Moreover, you can't tell from stats which QB carries were scrambles or sacks (in college), a few B-Back carries are double-options and a few A-Back carries are counters between the tackles, etc. Everything has to be taken with a grain of salt. Days' RamblinWreck.com bio says...

If I knew you had one, I would have just asked for yours. :P I checked RamblinWreck.com for each player's bio, but it was hard to reconstruct. I'm almost certain you're right that Days was an AB in 2012, and I just screwed that up because cfbstats listed him at QB. Snoddy was definitely a...

Indeed, GT had shockingly few yards last year. If you told me those would be our rushing numbers, I'd have expected a near-repeat of 2015. The 2014 offense was crazy good. Arguably other than Ohio State we performed better than any other team in the country down the stretch, even though we...

One thing I notice is that the B-backs never got 40% of the carries through 2013, but starting in 2014 they have every season including this one so far.

@ilovetheoption pointed that the A-Backs have only gotten 17% of the carries so far this year, which is very low. I was curious, so I ran the numbers which are summarized below. Notes: - (##.#) == percent of total carries/yards for that position alone. - Only players with 2+ carries in a...

Thanks man!

Good point. 2016 was actually a pretty poor offensive year, I think second worst behind 2015. I'll run 2011-13 when I get time. I think we can all agree to leave 2015 well enough alone. :)

I had also noticed the AB's just aren't getting the ball very much so far, but 3 games might be too small of a sample set to read much into it. To the degree it's meaningful, it might just be because the dive and the QB keeps have been working so well. Our starting QB and BB are the #2 and #3...