Funny thing about Grobe and Wake Forest this year...

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hiveredtech

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The best plan Jim Grobe had this year for Wake Forest was running an option-based offense with Ben Mauck at QB and Micah Andrews at TB.

However, both went down by game 3 with season-ending injuries.

This forced them to completely change their game plan for the 2006 season...and look what happened.

I heard one Wake Forest fan say that they probably would have bone 7-5 if they had stuck with what they thought was the best offensive game plan for 2006.
 
It would be nice to have an offensive coach that can adapt to the available talent. Ah, the good old days....
 
jacketup said:
It would be nice to have an offensive coach that can adapt to the available talent. Ah, the good old days....
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you just can't make it pass your agenda can you? Are capable of having any conversations in life without it coming back to such?

My point was the amount of luck involved in the situation created.

They thought the best plan for the year was the option with Mauch and Andrews...and ended up settling for their second choice...which should have been their first one obviously.
 
Interesting. Until this year you couldn't find a Wake fan that didn't want their OC fired. Now he's suddenly some kind of genius?
 
hiveredtech said:
My point was the amount of luck involved in the situation created.

They thought the best plan for the year was the option with Mauch and Andrews...and ended up settling for their second choice...which should have been their first one obviously.
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Please don't confuse this as an attack on GT coaching, but how do you know it was lucky that they changed their offense when their personnel changed?
Sounds like the kind of coaching non factory schools have to have when playing out of their league.

I could say something else, but I can't.
Congratulations to Coach Grobe and staff!
 
Actually I don't know that their offense would have changed much with Mauch at QB anyway. They still aren't a passing team but their QBs have never been much of a running threat. Their "option" is more of a misdirection running attack.
 
pocket_watch said:
Please don't confuse this as an attack on GT coaching, but how do you know it was lucky that they changed their offense when their personnel changed?
Sounds like the kind of coaching non factory schools have to have when playing out of their league.

I could say something else, but I can't.
Congratulations to Coach Grobe and staff!
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Skinner does not run the option as well...thus they went back to their misdirection running attack.

As the Wake fan said...they were heading to a 7-5 season if it were not for the injuries that forced the coaches to make the changes.
 
Well, they're right if they think Mauck was going to be successful running the option anyway.
 
hiveredtech said:
Skinner does not run the option as well...thus they went back to their misdirection running attack.

As the Wake fan said...they were heading to a 7-5 season if it were not for the injuries that forced the coaches to make the changes.
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So this speculation is based on the authority of the opinion of one Wake fan?

Sorry, don't mean to flame but I could just as easily assert that this was the season for Wake and it really didn't matter what offense they chose since offense was not the way they won games. Or that they would have made the changes anyway, etc.

I wonder if the winner of the Bobby Dodd trophy this year would agree with the opinion of said Wake fan, or any of his players for that matter.
 
I think Skinner was the difference this year for Wake...this their 3rd string QB.

Unlikely Mauck would have led the ACC in pass efficiency. Micah Andrews would have been a big help...but it is not like the running game struggled.

You guys take things way too seriously....just getting talk going and you act like I am saying I would bet $100K that Wake would have gone 7-5 because one Wake fan said this. It was just food for though. Perhaps I should have couched this with saying this Wake alum talks to the Wake coaches every week...still not worth betting on though!
 
I agree that Skinner put them back to their "old style" offense. He did a great job, and I, too believe 7-5 with Mauck would have been about right.
 
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