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Meanwhile at other teams' spring games:

 
Hell, Lobo just watched that video and got some new ideas for his offense.
 
rgbchen1979 said:
Starting the 13th year of the program with open practices the entire time, and now, all of a sudden, we're trying to keep our secrets. Meanwhile, everybody else wants their spring game to be televised. Just another excuse to try to hide the ineptness, in my opinion. By the way, Grobe has stated that Thompson is the number 2 QB.
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Don't let your disgust with the status of the football team cloud your judgement. There is a pretty substantial difference between an open to the public practice an opposing coach would need to attend versus recorded film of a live scrimmage. Perhaps the main one being most football coaches do not have the time to go to opponent PRACTICES to watch their sets but can find some time at the office/home to watch film. If people want to think this was an attempt to cover for Lobo's ineptitude, fine. Just understand that running base packages is somewhat common for spring games. The problem wasn't the vanilla play calling, it was how terrible the offense looked running those plays. If keeping the new formations/wrinkles out of the spring game helps in the future, then I am all for it. The problem is nothing I saw in this game gives me hope that the offense will execute well enough to win many games no matter what plays they are running.
 
Yep. And what's worse is our coaching staff seems to be perfectly content with the poor execution of those 5 plays.
 
We averaged -0.2 yards per rush.

WHOOOOOOOO!
 
BigTreeDeac said:
Don't let your disgust with the status of the football team cloud your judgement. There is a pretty substantial difference between an open to the public practice an opposing coach would need to attend versus recorded film of a live scrimmage. Perhaps the main one being most football coaches do not have the time to go to opponent PRACTICES to watch their sets but can find some time at the office/home to watch film. If people want to think this was an attempt to cover for Lobo's ineptitude, fine. Just understand that running base packages is somewhat common for spring games. The problem wasn't the vanilla play calling, it was how terrible the offense looked running those plays. If keeping the new formations/wrinkles out of the spring game helps in the future, then I am all for it. The problem is nothing I saw in this game gives me hope that the offense will execute well enough to win many games no matter what plays they are running.
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We also ran 2-3 trick plays. Not that it's any secret that Wake likes to run trick plays, but you'd think that you wouldn't run them if you were worried about other teams picking up on cues.
 
So the defense outrushed the offense.
 
First four games we will play the patsy schedule- well maybe not patsy for us- of Presbyterian, BC ULM and then Army- so maybe will hide our "new" offense until after those games or simply not allow anyone to film the games assuming of course there is any one there to take the film- so it is good we ran none of the dazzling, ground breaking, brilliant offense the football genius who is Lobo is installing this spring. Not even the basics. Of course after Liberty last year- Grobe is probably afraid, very afraid of Presbyterian.
 
dcon69 said:
First four games we will play the patsy schedule- well maybe not patsy for us- of Presbyterian, BC ULM and then Army- so maybe will hide our "new" offense until after those games or simply not allow anyone to film the games assuming of course there is any one there to take the film- so it is good we ran none of the dazzling, ground breaking, brilliant offense the football genius who is Lobo is installing this spring. Not even the basics. Of course after Liberty last year- Grobe is probably afraid, very afraid of Presbyterian.
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I think this is the only conclusion one can draw.
 
I bet we're mediocre to okay on offense for the first bit of the year like PH says and then there's a comment out there to the effect of "we're not really using the whole playbook yet" that somebody leaks from the football department and then we end up being complete shit the rest of the year and the comment after the year will be "we didn't do a good job adjusting." Same shit, different year, same shit, different sport, same shit, same shitty athletic department.
 
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PhDeac said:
Yep. And what's worse is our coaching staff seems to be perfectly content with the poor execution of those 5 plays.
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It is a bit depressing, to be honest. My students would wish they were dead if I came in one day and found out they were unable to effectively complete simple tasks like splitting/culturing cells, running ELISAs, doing a PCR, etc. I'm never a big guy for getting overly fired up in public but I cannot fathom how any coach watched the Spring Game and wasn't immediately screaming at their respective position group, at least on offense. Negative rushing yards in a scrimmage? GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE WITH THAT SHIT
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
I bet we're mediocre to okay on offense for the first bit of the year like PH says and then there's a comment out there to the effect of "we're not really using the whole playbook yet" that somebody leaks from the football department and then we end up being complete shit the rest of the year and the comment after the year will be "we didn't do a good job adjusting." Same shit, different year, same shit, different sport, same shit, same shitty athletic department.
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And that right there is Wake Forest sports. Wonderful summary, Numbers.
 
BigTreeDeac said:
Don't let your disgust with the status of the football team cloud your judgement. There is a pretty substantial difference between an open to the public practice an opposing coach would need to attend versus recorded film of a live scrimmage. Perhaps the main one being most football coaches do not have the time to go to opponent PRACTICES to watch their sets but can find some time at the office/home to watch film. If people want to think this was an attempt to cover for Lobo's ineptitude, fine. Just understand that running base packages is somewhat common for spring games. The problem wasn't the vanilla play calling, it was how terrible the offense looked running those plays. If keeping the new formations/wrinkles out of the spring game helps in the future, then I am all for it. The problem is nothing I saw in this game gives me hope that the offense will execute well enough to win many games no matter what plays they are running.
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That's why I stated it as my opinion, of course it could be wrong. I did see the scrimmage before the spring game, when we used our "new" offense, and that helped me formulate my opinion, which I still stand by. WFU probably has 20 miles of film on Navy, and they still can't stop them or Army either. I agree with you, it's the execution that counts.
 
DownEastDeac said:
How was the weather, crowd, tailgate scene? Any attempt from the athletic dept./admin. to work the crowd?
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A bit chilly early, but overall great weather for tailgating & game viewing. There were more cars in the gold lot than I've seen since the '06 season.

There was zero attempt from the athletic department to work the crowd. The marching band played a few songs, but that was it.

DeacLaw05 said:
After reading this thread, I'm really glad I saved a thousand bucks when I told the ticket office they could count me out for season tickets this year.
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I heard lots of folks saying they weren't going to renew their season tickets after that atrocious performance. Better late than never.
 
bmoneydeac said:
We also ran 2-3 trick plays. Not that it's any secret that Wake likes to run trick plays, but you'd think that you wouldn't run them if you were worried about other teams picking up on cues.
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Is a pass that goes more than thirty yards considered a "trick play" for Grobe?
 
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