Have we kept the O and D vanilla thus far?

[beastiebull]

We ran that out pattern to the sideline about 7 times too many vs. FIU (and got burned.)

We didn't appear to blitz very much vs either FIU or Mcneese.  Also appeared to stay in a very base defense, allowing 1 on 1 coverage in the secondary on a regular basis.  

We've handed off from the shotgun and ran up the middle, oh, I don't know, what feels like 70% of the time.  

The one time we did get creative (Taurus' end around) it worked out great.  

Question is do we think we are keeping vanilla due to lack of knowledge of the offense, or for ucf's "benefit"?  After all we all  know how CJL feels about the tinmen.  

[___ Eats It]

I'd like to believe so.  I can't believe that our secondary is giving us the best they have to offer.

[JoeB]

I hope so too.  Maybe we'll have some new looks versus UCF.

[Bull Dozer]

We have looked very vanilla thus far.  Im hoping that we'll let the cat outta the bag this week and open up our game plan on both sides of the ball.

[flipflop4900]

oh yea.......

[ZeroBullChip]

oh yea.......

hopefully

[Apis Bull]

God, I hope so.

[Brad]

Sounds like a call out for some Voodoo 5...   ;D

[Rabbi Bull]

i think we have been, and here is why.  when you looked at who we have played so far, they haven't been anybody spectacular.  we should have beaten these two hands down on a good night.  we just had an off-night when we played them, and looking at how other teams faired, we were not alone.  now, coaches look at game tape of their opponents previous games, why would leavitt want to give ucf any help on what we can really do?  he was playing smart conservative ball the first two games, because the opponent wasn't supposed to be that tough.  look back to ul last year.  before the game, you can say we had a vanilla team, but when game time came, we showed some trick plays.  i think against tougher opponents we will show more.  just my 2 cents.

[beastiebull]

On the flip side, hopefully we have some good tape on ucf from the UF game. I'm sure they pulled everything out in hopes of an upset.  After they knew they had no chance they likely shut it down....based on the score maybe we DONT have much tape on them.