Vandy Fans Want Niumatalolo

"They can't stop it folks."

Then his rant about how polite and respectful Synjyn was handing the ball to the reference after a TD was great too. You could hear the subconscious disdain for the SEC in his voice.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
The Vandy fan comments about our program are rich. Real rich. They're acting like they're UGA with several national championships and Heisman candidates. Silly kids.
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So we're calling 2 "several" now?
 
TampaBayJacket said:
So why dont any non-academy group of five schools run the TO either? I think its way more than pride. Hell even Ga Southern doesnt run the TO offense either anymore. There have to be legit reasons but we all guess why this is so. Has anyone officially stated why they won't run our kind of offense?
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Easy. There are so few coaches that know it anymore. At one time no one knew the "shotgun" option except a few coaches.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
It's just that -- the competition. When your offense relies on the run, makes no attempt at developing a pass game, and it's 3rd and long, or you're down by a couple of scores late in the game, that's a tough sell.
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Aren't we one of the better 3rd and long teams in the country in recent years? Feels like we're over 50% this year too. Not sure where that stat is tracked, but I'm gonna look back through our play-by-plays to figure out what ours is. I know were Top 5 in 2014.
 
gtrower said:
Aren't we one of the better 3rd and long teams in the country in recent years? Feels like we're over 50% this year too. Not sure where that stat is tracked, but I'm gonna look back through our play-by-plays to figure out what ours is. I know were Top 5 in 2014.
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I am pretty sure we were no 1 by a wide margin and came close to the record that Hawaii set.
Edit: back in '14
 
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I'd love to see Ken bring the spread option to Vandy and do well in the SEC with it, would shut a lot of haters up. The bad part is that he would be recruiting against us for the same players A Lot probably...
 
THWG247 said:
I'd love to see Ken bring the spread option to Vandy and do well in the SEC with it, would shut a lot of haters up. The bad part is that he would be recruiting against us for the same players A Lot probably...
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For that reason, I DON'T want him at Vandy. I didn't like Franklin at Vandy for that reason, then he proved out to be a criminal. I'm hoping Ken wouldn't do that. Mason is a pretty good coach for them. I just don't know what their expectations are.
 
gespacho_the_slender said:
I am pretty sure we were no 1 by a wide margin and came close to the record that Hawaii set.
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Did some quick play-by-play scanning and came up with the following (used 7 or more yards to gain as "long"):

Overall: 20-37, 54.1% (11th in the country)
3rd and long: 9-20, 45% (don't have other teams' stats, but that would be good for 45th in the country for overall 3rd down %)
Also two of those non-conversions resulted in 4th down conversions, FWIW.
Average distance to gain on those 3rdAL - 12.2 yards (we're putting ourselves behind the chains WAY too much)
Overall average distance to gain on 3rd down - 7.6 yards (much higher than CPJ wants it to be I'm sure)

So we're putting ourselves in positions that teams don't want to be in (and option teams are designed to avoid) with penalties and poor 1st/2nd down yardage. Luckily we are still converting a high percentage of 3rd downs and 3rd and longs in particular to keep the offense moving. We're 6-16 on 3rd-and-10 or longer. Not many teams are going to convert more than a third of those situations. And again two of those we converted 4th downs right after and two more went to FGs. So we have only punted 6 times in the 16 instances of 3rd-and-10 or longer. All were pass plays (one conversion was a JT scramble). Kind of bucks the narrative of every team/fan/announcer ever who recites the old "and here's 3rd and 9 folks, a spot that option teams don't want to find themselves in...Complete?!?! 1st down Georgia Tech."
 
Father forgive them. They know not what they do.
 
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