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1 hour ago, bowman1 said:

Brian Fischer and Evan Landi were QB experiments - personally, I do not see McCloud falling into that category 

Evans IMO is more an experiment than McCloud

Rather than play Evans out of the Wildcat, I would like to see them run him in the jet sweep and bubble screen (similar to how we used Rodney Adams in 2015)

Was thinking the same thing. 

Some notes from the radio show, paraphrasing Strong:

They know they can't start slow and come from behind in this one.

The offense is based on throwing to open up the run, so they have to have early success throwing. The success throwing is what opens things up for the big runs Cronkrite is getting. 

They're going to focus on stopping the run and forcing them to throw.

I only caught a piece, anyone take anything else interesting?

https://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaaf/cbs-poll

2 hours ago, jjlovecub said:

New QB and a new RB 8-4

+1

Circling over UF and FSU recruits, sure. UCF, meh. Not like we lose a recruiting battle to those guys very often. 

1 hour ago, Bulls On Parade said:

Personally none of the names be tossing around for us sound great.  Prefer a up and comming OC from a top p5 team that knows how to run the spread offense if we need to get a new HC.

 

Exactly. And be able to sign off on his DC choice. 

Need to go back and look, but I think Auggie and Nico were pulled a lot of the 2nd half.

Strong comes in at #28

https://www.si.com/college-football/2017/11/22/coaching-carousel-candidates-chip-kelly-scott-frost

http://www.yardbarker.com/mobile/content/article/s1_127_25062311

More Kelly hearsay

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/11/22/chip-kelly-reportedly-turned-down-tennessee-offer-turned-away-nebraska-interest/

http://www.yardbarker.com/mobile/content/article/s1_127_25066049

http://www.yardbarker.com/mobile/content/article/s1_12680_25058966

Mike Leach rants against CFP committee

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/11/21/report-florida-appears-ready-to-move-on-from-chip-kelly-if-deal-isnt-consummated-soon/

Nah, win over a top 15 and then top 20 team would get us up there. Just need to take care of business. We control our destiny. 

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/coaching-carousel-free-agent-chip-kelly-will-set-the-tone-of-this-silly-season/

43 minutes ago, mjadams said:

If your QB can make the basic throws the offense will progress. That's all I'm getting at. If the WR can actually catch said throws then the full potential of this offense can be seen. I believe if there was more consistent accuracy then we'd see crossing routes as well but that's pure speculation.

If this were 2015 many would have agreed Flowers would be the main factor if the O is looking anemic. 

The thing is, we now have the body of 2015 and 2016 to go by. A body that shows that Flowers can be a fringe Heisman candidate when playing to his strengths. 

I think most believe it's less likely that a Sr Flowers has regressed, or never was capable, and more likely the O is now less oriented to his strengths and/or being less efficiently run.

1 hour ago, mjadams said:

Some will just keep complaining. Gilbert called a game that put 600 yds of offense. Is there a relation to a good passing game by Q and the offense looking better. You bet ya.

 

CCS could have also taken a knee and didnt...

You serious Clark?

I know you're trying to keep a balance here, but the playcalling has been suspect all season and the shift in playcalling is what most would point to as the main difference tonight. Playing to strengths and putting players in position to succeed.

I'm not sure Strong gets that excited when we score a touchdown...

Flowers is the caliber of athlete that you can build an offense around.

We have done the opposite and tried to force him into an offense he doesn't have the strengths for. Not just that, we have specifically asked him not to use his strengths. 

Picture if he had slid or gone down at the first possibility of contact in many of these long runs. Reminds me of the touch rule in the spring game where we say that's basically taking away a big part of his game and doesn't reflect what would happen in a live game. 

For those saying that he was never a good passer, just look at the ratings last year. That's using a passing game plan that is built around his strengths. You'll see that only half or less of the long throw highlights are to Adams, so we know he was throwing to MVS and Mccants last year. I don't buy the Adams and Mack being gone is the primary reason our O is struggling and we would have seen similar results with the GCO argument. If we were seeing this type of action out of Flowers and still struggling I would buy it.

Strong has taken a risk by not leaving the offense built around Flowers, we'll see how it turns out. 

Did I read it right that he only got two carries?

Interesting article.

http://pressboxinsider.com/2017/10/12/ranking-college-footballs-13-undefeated-teams-by-chances-of-remaining-unbeaten/

8 hours ago, deadudea said:

Key part of this, "USF beat Auburn." We don't/won't have one of those. The playing field has changed tremendously in ten years.

Huh? That was a 1 and done pay day game. That was scheduled from a time before the Big East when we used to do those. We don't do them now because of pride and home game count.

With other teams out there in the same situation, I really don't understand why we wouldn't try to get our twelfth game back.

1 hour ago, USF Bulls Football said:

A little constructive criticism and some people lose their mind. Nobody is saying Charlie Strong is a bad coach. 

If you have a problem with the Skip Holtz FG blunder but not this, you aren't being honest with yourself. The top coaches in CFB try to score in that situation. The 'practice for that type of situation' is definitely part of that argument. 

I'm with you on this, and assumed the 2min drill factor was inherent.

With 20+ seconds on their 40 with 2 timeouts left, it was hardly a hail mary scenario and the odds of our o scoring in that scenario would probably have been a bit higher than 15%, given last year's record.

Towards the end of the press conference he acknowledged a couple of times who they were playing.  I think it was well done, taking accountability first and then just throwing in a bit at the end to keep in mind who they were playing.

http://thespun.com/college-football/college-football-conensus-top-25

Wait, I thought I heard news outlets don't talk up the hometown team? This can't be homerism, must be something else.