It is a very impressive stat. There will be some who say we falsely inflate our average against the cupcakes and can't move the ball against better teams. I'm pretty sure every team plays cupcakes that factor into their average.
We need to get better on offense, but our offense has been far from a liability. For those who say Navy runs it better than we do, I wonder what their average per play has been over the last three years? Our execution has actually only been "fair" and we produced these numbers. If we could just tighten up some of the reads and timing a little, this thing could explode.
The amount of criticism that CPJ has taken about his offense over the years just doesn't jive with me. Numbers like these, for 3 years running, when supposedly we had a weak kneed, rubber armed, timid, no talent QB running things, aught to make his detractors take some pause. It is a very small group of coaches who have accomplished the feat. It surely isn't an indicator of weak scheme and bad play calling. When you combine the YPP numbers with our "top of the nation" RZ efficiency, you know you have something going good on that side of the ball.
There are some areas that I think CPJ has earned some criticism, but offensive ineptitude isn't one of them.
