Nutman is absolutely right. Our defense was #8 in the BSC in scoring D. Not great, but better than NAU and EWU both. The offense absolutely lost the game at UND, probably SUU, and had chances to keep it close in Cheney & Flagstaff. Putting up a ton of points in garbage time & against poor to middling defenses does not make a great O.PapaG wrote:520 yards and 42 ppg a game should not be a 5-6 team. I question your agenda, given your sparse posting history. Saying offense doesn't score when "they need to" is a logical fallacy. I'd like to see some advanced stats, or even what the measurable variables are for "scoring when you need to score." Although maybe I'm just being a bit too homerish, too.nutman wrote:Situational football.
Not blaming the offense at all, just pointing out that an 'offensive genious' might be able to rally the troops to get one when it matters. After all it's a team thing, right?
As I heard someone say once 'things are never as bad, or as good as they seem'. 500 yards doesn't mean much when you had to claw your way from behind just to get a chance and possibly winning the game.
After a losing season, it's tough for me to swallow that we had any 'bests in the country' or genius tendencies. Perhaps its the tags that bother me so much. To me, a QB who took his team further through leadership is the better QB. Ash vs Stitt, this year, is pretty easy to see. Gustafson vs. Prukop? That idea probably makes people mad before they start making the comparison.
Q: How many game winning drives did the O put together in the last 2 years? (Answer, 2, one with a backup QB) Out of how many chances?
Q: When the D kept the game close at half, and we were receiving to start the 2nd, how many times did the O close the gap? Not once that I can remember.
This O has utterly failed to seize the moment when the D has made stops and has been an absolute train wreck finishing out halves. And it has been brilliant in putting up points & yards once the game is out of reach. That speaks to some deep seated problems, and has a lot to do with why MSU decided to fire Ash. Cramsey's fingerprints are all over every single loss in the last 2 years (unless he hasn't been allowed to do his own thing and Ash has ruined everything).
I really enjoy this offense, and I like a lot of the things that Cramsey has done: but lets call a spade a spade and admit it is bat spit crazy to even think about promoting Cramsey at this point (given the offensive execution in 3 of the last 4 games, he's lucky to even still be around.)
