Scoring Points - CPJ's the Man

swampsting said:
Yes ... and no.
Like the big boys do, I-AA talent in Georgia is raided heavily by out of state schools, especially by those in GSU's conference. Southern gets a lot of them — but not all of them.
I went to a lot of those PJ era games at GSU (all of them in 97 and 98, to be precise) and he DOES NOT run up the score. He blows people out early, puts in the reserves and they're asked to play hard and they don't let the foot off the gas, either.
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I think CPJ didn't have any more talent at Navy than he had at GSU. Possibly less.

GSU had better talent than all but a handful of teams they played, and Navy had worse talent than every opponent except Army.

GT relative to our opponents is somewhere in the middle between those extremes. Maybe a little closer to GSU b/c we now have above-average ACC talent and it's only getting better. Also we'll never play anyone with the kind of talent advantage that Oregon State and Georgia had over GSU, much less what ND, BC, Rutgers etc. had over Navy.

You've got to figure it's reasonable that CPJ will at least split the difference between his GSU records and his Navy records. Which would be an AVERAGE season of 10-11 wins a year. :wow:
 
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I got to thinking (a dangerous situation) and I recalled one instance where PJ was sorta accused of running up the score. It was against Western Illinois in the 1998 semifinals. GSU got a 40-yard touchdown pass with about 7 minutes to go to go up 42-14.
After the game, the Western Illinois coach (who later went on to coach Army, I believe) wouldn't shake PJ's hand. A few months later, he called PJ to apologize. He was mad that day because he thought he had a defense that could stop that offense.
Nothing could stop that offense, except that offense.
 
I went to GSU from '84 to '86 when CPJ was the offensive cooridnator under Erk Russell. CPJ's system was still in its infancy stage, but I recall the GSU teams running up and down the field the entire game and scoring lots of points even then. The second string QB was completely blind in one eye, but the offense kept on rolling when he played.
 
GoldenTornado said:
I think CPJ didn't have any more talent at Navy than he had at GSU. Possibly less.

GSU had better talent than all but a handful of teams they played, and Navy had worse talent than every opponent except Army.

GT relative to our opponents is somewhere in the middle between those extremes. Maybe a little closer to GSU b/c we now have above-average ACC talent and it's only getting better. Also we'll never play anyone with the kind of talent advantage that Oregon State and Georgia had over GSU, much less what ND, BC, Rutgers etc. had over Navy.

You've got to figure it's reasonable that CPJ will at least split the difference between his GSU records and his Navy records. Which would be an AVERAGE season of 10-11 wins a year. :wow:
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You are correct about the talent CPJ has had available to him in the past, but in my opinion, the comparison is not linear. I think the OBS exploits talent in a way that 50% better athletes deliver far better than 50% better results. When all the slots are filled with exceptional athletes and the offense is fully installed and understood, I don't think there is any limit, offensively, to Coach Johnson's system.
It is pretty obvious from the recruiting targets that speed, speed, and more speed is being sought--an obvious desire by any coach. We are so much faster as a team this fall compared to 2006 or 2007. With a makeshift line, and a backfield recruited and trained for the I formation, and with only part of a year experience in the system, and the starting QB out for three-plus games, we still had eight TD runs of 50 yards or more, and several other 50+ runs that didn't score.
 
We send in every single play from the sideline so I cannot imagine how that would work with a no huddle. Also, I do not see any reason to as the current system seems to work just fine, and has for a long time. CPJ seems to like sending the plays in and getting in the player's ear every snap and signaling plays while running no huddle would obviously take that away as well.

WreckTheRest said:
Considering we play with an option offense, couldn't we probably do a lot of no huddle offenses, then simply let the QB call more of a passing audible if all the run routes appear clogged up. Maybe that's easier said than done.
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Sending plays in from the sideline also helps control the clock and rotate the weapons to keep 'em fresh.
 
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