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The reports of the TO's death have been grossly exaggerated
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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 895388" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>The real problem is that the offense lost the edge that it gave us when we first hired Johnson. Part of it was rule changes. Part of it was coaches getting more comfortable defending it. Part of it was the different landscape of college football in 2018 compared to 2008. Much more innovative offenses overall and more that utilized the mobile QBs that once weren't valued as highly. And part of it was Johnson at some point went away from innovating and just relied too much on what he had already developed. </p><p></p><p>Regardless of the reason the last 4 years we won 24 games under Johnson. Only twice did that come when the other team scored 30 or more. Once was against Louisville in 2018 and the other in 2016 against Duke. And that's not a good thing when you are so heavily focused on offense. If we had a defense that was great and so we just didn't give up 30 points often that'd be different. But we did 19 times over that stretch and went 2-17 in those games. </p><p></p><p>In contrast in the first 4 years we won 7 such games out of 15 (not including the Utah game which was exactly 30 in OT so under 30 in regulation). So we went from having a roughly even chance at winning if the other team scored 30+ to having about a 10% chance. That is just not good for a program where the offense is the entire identity and it also didn't keep down the scoring the way people pretend it did. </p><p></p><p>It was still a "good" offense. But not one that was worth the tradeoffs that came with it. In 2008. Yes. But in 2018. No.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 895388, member: 2299"] The real problem is that the offense lost the edge that it gave us when we first hired Johnson. Part of it was rule changes. Part of it was coaches getting more comfortable defending it. Part of it was the different landscape of college football in 2018 compared to 2008. Much more innovative offenses overall and more that utilized the mobile QBs that once weren't valued as highly. And part of it was Johnson at some point went away from innovating and just relied too much on what he had already developed. Regardless of the reason the last 4 years we won 24 games under Johnson. Only twice did that come when the other team scored 30 or more. Once was against Louisville in 2018 and the other in 2016 against Duke. And that's not a good thing when you are so heavily focused on offense. If we had a defense that was great and so we just didn't give up 30 points often that'd be different. But we did 19 times over that stretch and went 2-17 in those games. In contrast in the first 4 years we won 7 such games out of 15 (not including the Utah game which was exactly 30 in OT so under 30 in regulation). So we went from having a roughly even chance at winning if the other team scored 30+ to having about a 10% chance. That is just not good for a program where the offense is the entire identity and it also didn't keep down the scoring the way people pretend it did. It was still a "good" offense. But not one that was worth the tradeoffs that came with it. In 2008. Yes. But in 2018. No. [/QUOTE]
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