Zonald Posted January 31, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 116 Content Count: 1,501 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/08/2003 Share Posted January 31, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flipflop4900 Posted January 31, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 151 Content Count: 1,037 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/24/2005 Share Posted January 31, 2007 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!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who'sYourData? Posted February 1, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 410 Content Count: 19,525 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 24 Joined: 09/01/2006 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Uh, I hope you meant 200-300 MORE rushing yards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windbane Posted February 1, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 39 Content Count: 3,403 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/27/2005 Share Posted February 1, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulls96go Posted February 1, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 724 Content Count: 10,219 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/17/2002 Share Posted February 1, 2007 hope it works out.even with no stud RB we ran 55% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usfbulls2004 Posted February 1, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 127 Content Count: 2,118 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/21/2004 Share Posted February 1, 2007 crossing my fingers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarveyGlass Posted February 1, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 16 Content Count: 549 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/2006 Share Posted February 1, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Willie_Jokes_Yet Posted February 1, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 515 Content Count: 7,379 Reputation: 28 Days Won: 3 Joined: 02/06/2002 Share Posted February 1, 2007 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> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crambone Posted February 1, 2007 Group: Member Topic Count: 166 Content Count: 9,038 Reputation: 101 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/18/2006 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Indeed. Let Matt throw and Ford run.We'll be unstoppable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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