Point?
Oliver and Mason both started games toward the end of the year and they both returned.
Mason? Hell, I got old timers disease. I don't remember that.
Jordan Mason and Jerry Howard shared the bback load after Benson got hurt early in the year (USF I think?). Mason finished 2018 with 659 yards rushing and Howard with 564.
Hell, I missed the RB part.
The same reason Navy or Army has winning records despite the worst talent and size in all of FBS. The triple option is the great equalizer and allows you to slow the game down, eat the clock to limit possessions, and beat teams by being more efficient on offense with the limited possessions. If every team ran this offense, then it would lose much of its effectiveness because teams would practice against it daily and play against it weekly. You also have to have a coach that knows the nuances of the offense like CPJ to make the subtle in game adjustments to counter whatever the defense came up with that week. Good luck ever fielding a strong defense too. It's outscore them or bust.
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We are embarrassed by it. I’m just not going to use it as an excuse to be miserable.
Who is crying about Gardner-Webb?
Whatever you do, on your way home do NOT drive into a bridge abutment at highway speed after removing your seatbelt. Do not do it.
Oliver was never going to be a realistic option for the new offense at QB. Mason was a nice piece to have back, but again, objectively, our returning production was among the worst.
So, you made me look it up. Here's Bill Connely's take in 2019:
2019 CFB returning production, ranked a better way
The teams at the top of this list are likely to improve, recent history shows. Let’s go deeper than returning starter counts.
119th out of 130 FBS teams. And that's with a lot of that production no longer even applicable in the new offense AND completely changing blocking schemes.
I said who was crying about it? We discuss football here. If you are gonna discuss CPJ like every game was the 2014 Orange Bowl then the lesser games get pointed out too.
So when CGC claimed "greatest transition ever", he wasn't being a dishonest used car salesman?Oliver was never going to be a realistic option for the new offense at QB. Mason was a nice piece to have back, but again, objectively, our returning production was among the worst.
So, you made me look it up. Here's Bill Connely's take in 2019:
2019 CFB returning production, ranked a better way
The teams at the top of this list are likely to improve, recent history shows. Let’s go deeper than returning starter counts.
119th out of 130 FBS teams. And that's with a lot of that production no longer even applicable in the new offense AND completely changing blocking schemes.
The year we went HAM in the Orange Bowl against MSU, we pulled a win against GSU straight out of our asses. Early season blues and And the fact we just aren't a good team this year can lead to bad results. We lost to NIU. We played like öööö. NIU sucks donkey balls. It is what it is.
