10 most penalized football teams

[cmhatter]

Not making excuses, but a great deal of it is on the individual and how they compete and/or react in competition.  Not every charateristic of a human being can be coached.

The coaches need to do their share of coaching and leading, but at the same time you're telling these guys to be aggressive, physical and go all out.  It ain't the library.

Certainly sounds like an excuse... Undisciplined teams are coaching problems...

Based on your logic it is still a coaching issue... coaches recruiting undisciplined players.

[smazza]

when you dont win and you get alot of penalties it is a coaching problem

that aggressiveness argument works if such aggressiveness pays off and team wins like usc but when you finish 7th in big east that argument falls flat

[Guest hm101]

leavitt says a big east official will be attending this weekends scrimmage and will be around more often in the next 3 weeks.

[Brad]

when you dont win and you get alot of penalties it is a coaching problem

that aggressiveness argument works if such aggressiveness pays off and team wins like usc but when you finish 7th in big east that argument falls flat

So being undisciplined is okay if you win.  And you don't believe the difference is in quality of players and depth, but coaching.  I'm surprised.

[twillybull]

penalities cost us the Pitt game last year....thats for sure.

That one was completely on depth.  That entire game DB's were tapping helmets and not getting subbed.  It was because between FIU and NcState the defense was killed with injuries and there wasn't anyone left to put in.  I saw it happening in the first quarter and knew it would bite us by the end.  Pitt saw it too.  Of the two pass interference calls at the end, had the DB (Roberts?) turned around on both one would have been an int and one would was 10 yards out of bounds and wouldn't have been called.  That was not a lack of discipline, it was pure exhaustion. 

[windbane]

man, if only we could cut our number of penalties down from 111 to 102, then we'd win a national championship like UF did!

Some of you might want to check out Greg's old post on the major lack of correlation between penalties and losing.  Every team in the nation is frustrated by the team committing penalties.

[BULLfreak]

unfortunately this has been a recurring theme and it wont change

OMG, I agree with smazza on this.

I can't stand the dumb personal fouls

I think you're going to see less personal fouls this season because of the SR leadership something last seasons team lacked.