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Clawson Credibile! (will reconsider if he sits Newman for another scrappy gym rat QB)

Biggus Deacus said:
2017 ACC is worlds better than the 2006 ACC. Our ACC schedule is brutal this year as well. I'm not pleased with the play calling either, but Lobo was our OC in 2006 when we won the ACC with a freshman qb.
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And a WR as the RB for a lot of our games. For as much shit as Lobo gets as an OC, our offense totally mowed over Maryland in that last game.
 
ChrisL68 said:
That team executed under pressure though.
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Sure, but we were Chip Vaughn's elbow away from losing to a Roof-coached Duke at home early in the year. Really good teams are winning that game going away. We did execute under pressure a lot but we also got lucky sometimes.
 
Biggus Deacus said:
Sure, but we were Chip Vaughn's elbow away from losing to a Roof-coached Duke at home early in the year. Really good teams are winning that game going away. We did execute under pressure a lot but we also got lucky sometimes.
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In all fairness, that was what, the 3rd game played by a red-shirt frosh QB that was supposed to be the 3rd stringer that year? I can't imagine the coaches were looking to open up the offense at that point.
 
Bubble Boy said:
And a WR as the RB for a lot of our games. For as much shit as Lobo gets as an OC, our offense totally mowed over Maryland in that last game.
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That was the only game in which our offense was potent for 60 minutes and won the game for us.
 
Bubble Boy said:
In all fairness, that was what, the 3rd game played by a red-shirt frosh QB that was supposed to be the 3rd stringer that year? I can't imagine the coaches were looking to open up the offense at that point.
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I agree. I don't think we can look back at our offense in 2006 and learn a whole lot from it. We almost lost to a Chuck Tomato team that finished DFL in the Atlantic as well. Truth is we probably had a top 5 defense that year and the best kicker we've ever had. Our offense was very conservative and just relied heavily on our awesome defense.
 
No more bye weeks. Clawson cant handle them, Elrod or not.
 
Hell no. But the lowest of bars.

The 4th & 1 did bring back memories of Purdue '03 when we all began to realize what we were stuck with
 
Good reference and well put.
 
wsc8521s said:
Hell no. But the lowest of bars.

The 4th & 1 did bring back memories of Purdue '03 when we all began to realize what we were stuck with
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Was that the game where, toward the end, the broadcaster said something like "the game that neither team wants to win?"
 
Yeah I'm done. We need a coach that wants to win, not one that doesn't want to lose.
 
buckets said:
Is Ruggiero worse than Lobo?
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To me, you could look on the field and see that our talent level was at least on par with traditional ACC powers around 2006-2008 some of the time, occasionally better. I can't do that now, so I'd say no regarding Ruggiero.

I do believe Lobo was a student of the game that was knowledge rich and execution poor when it came to finding an offensive identity and implementing a successful offensive strategy. Troy Calhoun excelled at all of the above.

Sometimes it worked when we ran a good number of direct snaps to Moore in 2006. In the years with Skinner after we won the ACC he pulled out some really old school looks on occasion to confuse defenses that also worked sometimes as well. All of it was more conservative than it needed to be.

As I recall, although we had trustworthy offensive skill players, we didn't act like it. Could have been due to not developing a good OL, but I think Lobo coached the OL, which probably has something to do with the question you ask. Don't know how accurate I am, probably wrong on a lot here.
 
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Biggus Deacus said:
I agree. I don't think we can look back at our offense in 2006 and learn a whole lot from it. We almost lost to a Chuck Tomato team that finished DFL in the Atlantic as well. Truth is we probably had a top 5 defense that year and the best kicker we've ever had. Our offense was very conservative and just relied heavily on our awesome defense.
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There were more wrinkles in 06 with less talent on offense (Riley was still a freshman). My bigger point is - we need to get away from a conventional offense. We have to do weird shit to have any kind of advantage. Whether that is cut blocks, jet sweeps or a full-blown wishbone Ala GT, we have to come to this realization as a program. We will not have sustained success if we do what every other ACC team does, because we don't have the depth of talent on offense.
 
Dortch didn't get a single carry last night.

Wolford is our leading carrier and only got four.

We gave up one sack which was the botched snap. One turnover at the end. And could only muster 24 points. We hurt ourselves.
 
Bubble Boy said:
In all fairness, that was what, the 3rd game played by a red-shirt frosh QB that was supposed to be the 3rd stringer that year? I can't imagine the coaches were looking to open up the offense at that point.
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That was Riley's first start as a QB. And in the beginning of the game, Lobo was having him run the Mauk option style game plan.
 
Playcalling is just questionable. Its the scheme that is unrealistic and unimaginative garbage. Its year four, and no change. Which means its never changing. Bye Bye Dave.
 
BillBrasky said:
Playcalling is just questionable. Its the scheme that is unrealistic and unimaginative garbage. Its year four, and no change. Which means its never changing. Bye Bye Dave.
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It's both. For some reason, we didn't get Dortch enough touches and didn't run the QB. That's playcalling. The overall scheme doesn't lend itself to consistent production against quality teams.
 
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