What a rush

[Zonald]

Which Division I football conference had the most percentage of running plays last season? The “three yards and a cloud of dust†Big Ten? Nope, guess again. Surprisingly, it was the Big East. According to cfbstats.com, Big East teams ran the ball a national-high 57.7 percent of the time in 2006.

The second most ground oriented conference was the Sun Belt (57.6 percent), followed by the Mountain West (56.4), Mid-American (55.3), ACC (54.5), SEC (54.1), WAC (53.0), Big Ten (52.9), Conference USA (52.7), Pac-10 (51.8) and Big 12 (51.8). By comparison, in 2005, Big East teams ran the ball 59.5 percent of the time, which ranked second nationally to the Sun Belt (59.7).

In 2006, USF ran 55.68 percent of the time, which was substantially down from running 65.64 percent of the time in Andre Hall’s senior year in 2005. With the addition of heralded RB Mike Ford this fall, expect the Bulls’ run percentage to increase from last season.

http://sports.tboblogs.com/index.php/sports/related/C127/

Ford already getting attention.  Nice.  Hope he lives up to the hype.  

[flipflop4900]

I hope he lives up to it to but some of you know why I hope so LOL!! I am really hoping for Matts stats to be a lot diff than last year as far as passing and rushing yards...Last year 2598 passing and 633 rushing...next year lets hope for 200-300 yards rushing and 3000-4000 passing I really think with a great running game by our backs this is not out of the question!!

[Who'sYourData?]

Uh, I hope you meant 200-300 MORE rushing yards.  

[windbane]

I hope he lives up to it to but some of you know why I hope so LOL!! I am really hoping for Matts stats to be a lot diff than last year as far as passing and rushing yards...Last year 2598 passing and 633 rushing...next year lets hope for 200-300 yards rushing and 3000-4000 passing I really think with a great running game by our backs this is not out of the question!!

sounds good.  more overall yards from offense with matt doing more just scrambling and less designed runs.  that's been my hope.  he's so good at scrambling and making plays but being able to do that in addition to a great running game would just improve the overall offense and keep drives going, so his passing stats could very well increase.

[Guest]

Uh, I hope you meant 200-300 MORE rushing yards.  

No, he meant total... that means fewer QB runs (and fewer chances of getting hurt)... but it also helps open up the passing game...

[bulls96go]

hope it works out.

even with no stud RB we ran 55%

[usfbulls2004]

crossing my fingers.

[HarveyGlass]

It's nice to throw that stuff in the face of the football "purists" in the Big11 and the SEC, who think it's all pass all the time in the BEast.

Good find.

[No_Willie_Jokes_Yet]

I actually hope Matt has more rushing yards but I hope they are on much fewer attempts. I'd like to see the defense SO worried about Ford that Matt can bust out a 40-50 yarder (and get safely run out of bounds _IN THE BACK OF THE END ZONE) each time.

Hoping for a safe, efficient, effective, exciting offense in 2007. With the right running game our passing game should OPEN UP HUGE>

[crambone]

Indeed.  Let Matt throw and Ford run.

We'll be unstoppable.