You've got to ask yourself

[Flowers4Heisman]

since their time at USF, did Coach Strong and the OC ever go back to the videos and watch any of the USF games from the previous seasons?

Game 1, okay, season jitters, etc. They all get a pass.

Game 2... It clearly shows me that they don't know USF football and how QF and the guys operate. They are trying to do whatever they did offensively at Texas (that got them all fired).

 

[Bulls On Parade]

The only thing that keeps me from giving up all hope on this season is that when we were down early at San Jose we opened up the playbook and looked pretty good....this most recent game was like how little can we open the playbook and still win the game. 

Part of it might be Gilbert is trying to figure out what if any power running plays can we run...and the answer is none.  Save your time it wont work here. 

Edited September 3, 2017 by Bulls On Parade

[FlowerPower]

The good thing is it's still very early in the season but if this is truly the fully implemented Gilbert offense we are in trouble. 

[Bulls On Parade]

2 minutes ago, HOTbull19 said:

The good thing is it's still very early in the season but if this is truly the fully implemented Gilbert offense we are in trouble. 

If this was the first game I would be really worried but we saw it opened up some in the first game so we know the plays are in the system they just didn't call them much for whatever reason.   

[Gismo]

I like to see the gulf coast offense. No power run. 

 

We can use basic sweeps screens and options without using the complete playbook.

 

.... and ya, it does make you wonder if they watched last years film. You think that would be among the first things a new coach would do. 

Edited September 3, 2017 by Gismo

[JoeB]

CCS saw it in person for the bowl game

[SoFlo All Day]

Whatever it is - we have to come out fast next game. The more we let inferior opponents hang around deep into games, the more they will believe that they can beat us and the harder they will fight. I think a big component of our success last season was that we could score at will and score early. Feel like that had a big impact on the psyche of the opponents and our players as well. TBH, our team wasn't built to get into defensive slugfests or grind it out type of games -- we also don't have the depth on defense to be successful there. 

[GaUSFBull]

11 hours ago, JoeB said:

CCS saw it in person for the bowl game

Gilbert should have been there too.  Sort of seems to me like CCS is letting him run the O and providing little input.

[raptorcj]

14 hours ago, Bulls On Parade said:

The only thing that keeps me from giving up all hope on this season is that when we were down early at San Jose we opened up the playbook and looked pretty good....this most recent game was like how little can we open the playbook and still win the game. 

Part of it might be Gilbert is trying to figure out what if any power running plays can we run...and the answer is none.  Save your time it wont work here. 

This is a logical explanation--that, and it was somewhat wet out there so the ground game gets more reps.

Personally, and since I'm not the coach it doesn't count at all, I'd rather open up the playbook from game one and let them get used to executing ALL the sets. The logic for holding back really only applies to the "next" game, and if we're supposedly on our way to a CC I'd think you'd want to be polished and as close to second-nature for your entire playbook as you can get.

[Guest]

45 minutes ago, GaUSFBull said:

Gilbert should have been there too.  Sort of seems to me like CCS is letting him run the O and providing little input.

It doesn't just "seem" like it.  CCS actually SAID as much during camp.