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It’s similar to air raid and not all that different from what we’re doing now. I think Mike Leach would have been productive immediately—or at least bowling by 2020

At risk of going further down the rathole, TFG’s strength was supposed to be recruiting. Great recruiters who choose to participate do well with the portal (Mack Brown, Kiffin). Despite TFG’s resume, the recruiting wins from the previous staff seem more tied to assistants. There’s also the idea...

If we score 6 more points per game, we’re 2-1. If we get to the point of getting close enough to make field goals, we look a ton better. Moving the needle on each end (force more field goals, get more points) would be a huge help. like Augusta Jacket and others have mentioned, we’re using a...

We moved the ball well on the first series. A blocked field goal isn’t a play calling problem. The one thing I thought was an issue was that I didn’t see a good counter or trap. It seemed like Ole Miss could commit to following the ball and run full speed, and didn’t have to second-guess. It...

Wake averages 33 points per game. The median scoring defense gives up 23 points per game. The median scoring offense scores 30 points per game. We’re at that part of the season where teams are beating up on weaker teams. What that tells you is that, against a real team it’s normal to give up...

Maybe, but Woody’s first year was worse than any of the Ted Roof years. Funny thing is, UNC hired away Woody’s predecessor at Army, who had their defense humming, and was thought of as an innovator, to be co-DC at UNC. He got fired from UNC because their defense was awful. Woody had great...

I don’t have a great answer for you here. Key has done some things I like, such as bringing in a line coach who knows a different style of blocking because he wants a wide open offense. I was happy he called the fake punt, because he’s been too conservative and it’s cost us points. The offense...

That was an SEC ref moment.

I don’t see how any team can make a significant scheme change in 4 practices—and that’s all you really have from one week to another. The scheme we have is gonna be our scheme for the rest of the year—maybe with a modification here and there.

We’ve had a lot of numbers used to justify different takes. We have a thread that says we’re a top 10 offense. We’ve used some numbers here that say we’re one of the worst defenses in FBS. I don’t think we’re a top 10 offense. A top 10 offense would be 2-1 or 3-0 right now. LSU is #10 in points...

There are better methods, but it’s something. We do well on the others, too, but this is a popular service

Thanks for posting this. Offense isn’t terrible at #47. It’s not top 10, but it seems like a more accurate ranking of our offense, and a big improvement. I think Ole Miss is a strong team—much stronger than Louisville. PPD differential isn’t my go to stat, but being #119 is awful, even...

That page , and other sections of ramblinwreck.com, are not up to date

So, if half your plays are TDs and half are pick-sixes, you’re highly efficient?

Not exactly what you asked, but this is a fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_bookmaking?wprov=sfti1 This is for Soccer (shows up as “football” because England gambles like mad), but here’s a former odds setter: They have statistical models, and they crank away based on...

So, MichSt fired Mel Tucker today. There was an investigation. The AD got the full report recently. Tucker admitted to enough to fire with cause. The MSU AA waited to get all their ducks in a row, which took about a week

The ESPN source stats are missing. Other than staff cuts at ESPN, I’m not sure why we had the bad luck where ESPN lost our stats.

I don’t think we can swap to an entirely different scheme mid season. I don’t expect the players max squat to go up 150 lbs during the season. I think we improved last season after firing Collins. I think some of that was due to changes in practice and coaching. While I wouldn’t expect swapping...

I think some starting positions will be up for grabs this week. Some players looked bad in the last 8 minutes. The transfer portal is a fact of life. We got a receiver from Alabama and our QB is from TA&M. We benefited some—and in the offseason the talk was about how well we’d done in the...

Yes, our time of possession was 40 minutes. However We only scored 23 points. Last year’s FBS average was about 28 points per game Ole Miss averaged 8.1 yards per rush and 13.2 yards per pass. We were averaging 3.1 yards per rush and 7.3 yards per pass. Maybe the story is more Ole Miss was...