TheUpperHand Posted September 18, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 44 Content Count: 2,035 Reputation: 1,410 Days Won: 20 Joined: 06/29/2007 Share Posted September 18, 2023 7 minutes ago, USFBulls12 said: I like to think back to Taggart's first couple of seasons. It wasn't the greatest until all of a sudden the switch just flipped in that Syracuse game in year 3 and we were off to the races. The most we scored in year 1 was 26 pts in a win at home over Cincy but in many games that season we failed to score more than 10. Year 2 we scored in the 30s twice (1 was against Western Carolina in the opener) but that was the season of hitting the 17 pts wall five times - so frustrating for me. Most of our games were less than 20 pts. Year 3, game 5, everything changed. SO MANY POINTS from there on out. Perhaps it'll take some time, maybe we need to recruit a few more specific types of guys Coach wasn't able to get this time around..I'm definitely leaning toward optimism and that's a good thing. For the first two years, Taggart insisted on implementing the Stanford offense, which we didn't have the offensive line for. He also tried forcing pre snap motions which did more harm than good and resulted in many false start penalties. We went 6-18 the first two years. Harlan made it publicly known at the end of 2014 that he would be having a conversation with Taggart about the direction of the program. Taggart fired OC Wulff and DC Bresnahan and hired Joe Kinnan as a consultant to build the GCO. We started 1-3 in 2015 and there were rumors Taggart would be canned if he lost against Syracuse. The switch flipped in that game and we went 7-2 to end the season. If Taggart would have stayed the course and forced the Stanford offense in 2015, he'd be gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoBulls84 Posted September 18, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 43 Content Count: 3,899 Reputation: 871 Days Won: 8 Joined: 12/10/2006 Share Posted September 18, 2023 19 minutes ago, USFBulls12 said: I like to think back to Taggart's first couple of seasons. It wasn't the greatest until all of a sudden the switch just flipped in that Syracuse game in year 3 and we were off to the races. The most we scored in year 1 was 26 pts in a win at home over Cincy but in many games that season we failed to score more than 10. Year 2 we scored in the 30s twice (1 was against Western Carolina in the opener) but that was the season of hitting the 17 pts wall five times - so frustrating for me. Most of our games were less than 20 pts. Year 3, game 5, everything changed. SO MANY POINTS from there on out. Perhaps it'll take some time, maybe we need to recruit a few more specific types of guys Coach wasn't able to get this time around..I'm definitely leaning toward optimism and that's a good thing. IIRC all the TDs we scored in that game were defense and special teams too. Think it was a blocked field goal and a pick six. Same for the next game against UConn. Our only two wins that year came with ZERO offensive TDs. Made no sense. As for Goach and this offense, we need more playmakers that can get themselves open and we need to hit a deep ball or two to loosen up the D and this offense will take off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchem1995 Posted September 18, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 51 Content Count: 3,355 Reputation: 1,099 Days Won: 5 Joined: 04/02/2014 Share Posted September 18, 2023 57 minutes ago, Bulls On Parade said: Bama Is a tough team to be aggressive with on 4th down and if you are you better be creative which we weren't but one time I recall and it worked. Offense needs to get more creative with misdirection. Misdirection worked well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Style Posted September 18, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 109 Content Count: 21,099 Reputation: 4,616 Days Won: 39 Joined: 09/14/2007 Share Posted September 18, 2023 1 hour ago, BDYZR said: It's a learning curve that Golesh has admitted to. It's also a whole lot easier to arm chair the decisions after the fact. I wouldn't normally, but running it up the middle on 2nd and 3rd and long in sequence has happened since the WKU game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefy620 Posted September 18, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 23 Content Count: 930 Reputation: 213 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/24/2009 Author Share Posted September 18, 2023 3 minutes ago, Rocky Style said: I wouldn't normally, but running it up the middle on 2nd and 3rd and long in sequence has happened since the WKU game. Maybe we're saving those better 2nd and 3rd down calls for conference play? ...Mostly just kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Armstrong Posted September 18, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 0 Content Count: 53 Reputation: 17 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 1 hour ago, Bryson W said: I liked the idea of going for it on 4th down but some of the playcalls were predictable. We need to do more rollouts kinda like the Weston Wollf play on 4th. Also I did not like the fake punt, but other than that we should keep doing it. CAG needs to be diverse with his play calling period,if he was more diverse against Alabama and W.Kentucky they're likely undefeated and ranked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 18, 2023 Group: Admin Topic Count: 13,331 Content Count: 97,051 Reputation: 10,834 Days Won: 469 Joined: 05/19/2000 Share Posted September 18, 2023 20 minutes ago, Rocky Style said: I wouldn't normally, but running it up the middle on 2nd and 3rd and long in sequence has happened since the WKU game. Don't worry about it. Voodoo5 has been armchaired for over a decade... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smazza Posted September 18, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 9,898 Content Count: 66,091 Reputation: 2,434 Days Won: 172 Joined: 01/01/2001 Share Posted September 18, 2023 2 hours ago, beefy620 said: So far I'm really enjoying the aggressiveness of the offense through 3 games on 4th down. Pretty sure during the presser Golesh said he'd look at some of the calls specifically during the Bama game. In real time I was pumped (and a bit bizzed) to be going for them. After the game, with hindsight and all, I think a couple of the calls were not well thought out. I haven't seen a lot of discussion on this unless its buried in other threads, just curious everyone else's takes. My only other take is if you're going to be that aggressive on 4th why not also on 2nd down. you need to call smart plays and execute them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olafberserker Posted September 18, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 5 Content Count: 3,363 Reputation: 942 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/20/2007 Share Posted September 18, 2023 14 minutes ago, Mister Armstrong said: CAG needs to be diverse with his play calling period,if he was more diverse against Alabama and W.Kentucky they're likely undefeated and ranked. I don't know about that. Let's see how we do the next couple of weeks when we are playing against defenses with similar speed and talent levels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olafberserker Posted September 18, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 5 Content Count: 3,363 Reputation: 942 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/20/2007 Share Posted September 18, 2023 2 minutes ago, smazza said: you need to call smart plays and execute them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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