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Article: How will USF’s Marlon Mack Follow Up His Stellar Freshman Season?


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How will USF’s Marlon Mack Follow Up His Stellar Freshman Season?

 

For South Florida fans, there wasn’t much to cheer about in 2014.

 

The Bulls endured a dismal 4-8 record, their fourth consecutive losing season, and were consistently bad at just about every facet of the game. The four games they did manage to win came against an FCS opponent and three FBS teams that combined to go 5-31 on the year.

 

Needless to say, it was a campaign to forget for USF.

 

However, if there was a single positive that was able to shine even a little light on the dark abyss that was 2014 for South Florida, it was the stellar play of freshman running back Marlon Mack.

 

Mack’s collegiate career started with a bang in the Bulls’ season opener against Western Carolina, where he ran for 275 yards (tying a school record) and four touchdowns on 24 carries. Three of his four touchdowns came on runs of 62, 60 and 56, and his performance was instrumental to South Florida’s comeback 36-31 victory to avoid what would have been an embarrassing upset.

 

For the season, Mack rushed for 1,041 yards (a USF freshman record) and nine touchdowns while averaging 5.2 yards per carry, resulting in him earning All-AAC first-team honors and being named the conference’s Rookie of the Year. He became just the fourth player in school history to run for more than 1,000 yards and was one of just three freshmen in the entire country to lead his conference in rushing.

 

His season would’ve been thrilling for fans regardless of the circumstances, but the fact that he did all this while playing on a terrible team just made his success stand out all the more.

 

Given what he accomplished during his freshman campaign, it should come as no surprise that many have high expectations for Mack in his sophomore season.

 

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We need multiple Mack types at all positions.

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So looking forward to see what he can do in the spread.

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He should follow up with another stellar season.   Getting very excited about the season opener!

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Mack should do very well in the spread...him in more open space is a good thing.

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Can't wait to see how this new offense runs. Hard to imagine it could be less entertaining that what we've been subjected to the past two seasons.

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I hate being this guy.  But, I really try hard at being objective.  If you showed me the below stats for any other teams RB, I would have a couple of thoughts.  

 

First, take away the FCS opponent and he is really not that impressive.  Barely thee 100 yard games.  Three games of less than 50 yards, not counting 51 and 54 yard performances.

 

Again, minus the FCS opponent, his average yard per carry is 4.3, which I think is pretty good.

 

However, I think Marlon is slightly over hyped, stat wise.

 

On TV I feel like he played way above these stats, so I am trying to reconcile that and figure out were the stat/game feel disconnect is.  Or, maybe my green and gold goggles are on, don't know.

 

Again though, if this was Cincinnati's #1 backs stats, I would not be impressed, not even a little.  

 

 

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I hate being this guy.  But, I really try hard at being objective.  If you showed me the below stats for any other teams RB, I would have a couple of thoughts.  

 

First, take away the FCS opponent and he is really not that impressive.  Barely thee 100 yard games.  Three games of less than 50 yards, not counting 51 and 54 yard performances.

 

Again, minus the FCS opponent, his average yard per carry is 4.3, which I think is pretty good.

 

However, I think Marlon is slightly over hyped, stat wise.

 

On TV I feel like he played way above these stats, so I am trying to reconcile that and figure out were the stat/game feel disconnect is.  Or, maybe my green and gold goggles are on, don't know.

 

Again though, if this was Cincinnati's #1 backs stats, I would not be impressed, not even a little.  

Sorry, could not get the formatting of the stats to look right, here you go.

 

                 Team                             Score                   Att          Yards          Yards per

 

8/30       Western Carolina             W 36-31                24           275         11.5       

9/6         Maryland                         L 24-17                  22           73           3.3         

9/13       NC State                         L 49-17                   12           51           4.3         

9/19       Connecticut                     W 17-14                 31           103         3.3         

9/27       @Wisconsin                   L 27-10                    10           34           3.4         

10/11     East Carolina                  L 28-17                  15           61           4.1         

10/18     @Tulsa                          W 38-30                  19           130         6.8         

10/24     @Cincinnati                   L 34-17                   12           54           4.5         

11/1       Houston                            L 27-3                  13           47           3.6         

11/15     @SMU                          W 14-13                  17           79           4.6         

11/22     @Memphis                     L 31-20                 16           102         6.4         

11/28     UCF                                 L 16-0                  11           32           2.9        

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I think the bit that is.missing in your reasoning above is that we were one dimensional last year and he still got great stats. Not to mention the O line wasnt really right for the type of power run offense CWT tried to implement.

What I did notice about Mack was he would get gassed relatively quick throughout the game. I expect him to be faster stronger and more resilent this year. Couple that with the spreadout D and possibly a more talented O line and this year could be something.

How that for G&G glasses! GO BULLLS!!

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I think the bit that is.missing in your reasoning above is that we were one dimensional last year and he still got great stats. Not to mention the O line wasnt really right for the type of power run offense CWT tried to implement.

What I did notice about Mack was he would get gassed relatively quick throughout the game. I expect him to be faster stronger and more resilent this year. Couple that with the spreadout D and possibly a more talented O line and this year could be something.

How that for G&G glasses! GO BULLLS!!

 

That is just it.  You cant tell me that anyone would consider the above stats great.  Marlon is a beast, I would have expected his stats to be better with as much pub as he is getting.

 

I agree with everything you said.  Another year stronger, faster, better O line (I hope).  I do think that more space will be awesome for him. 

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