re: Interesting perceptions vs. reality regarding the Miles and Orgeron offenses

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So USM is an outlier but the 82 plays we ran against Mizzou should count? We ran 64 vs Ole Miss. Use that as the baseline if you want, but it is still 5 more plays a game than we were running.

I gave Orgeron credit for the impressive yards per play average overall. Should I discard the USM game from that metric?

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I think both samples are too small to make the kind of sweeping generalizations you're going for. Orgeron is taking the opportunity in his limited games to get additional reps. He hasn't shut blowouts down too early. He has had his team ready to play shitty opponents and Ole Miss. Saying we don't run more plays because Southern Miss was our bitch in the second half, as I already stated, misses the point. We're running more plays in normal games then we did under Miles. We are trying to make our opponents give up instead of our team being told the opponent gives up. We approach each drive with the goal of gaining yardage and trying to score instead of being tough guys and dictating to the defense that we're so much more masculine than they are--or whatever outmoded idea of toughness Miles was going for.