re: 112th ranked offense

They can't defend it. They will no doubt blame Jordan Jefferson. If you ask me its freaking amazing that he was able to have such good stats with the 112th ranked offense.

Tim Tebow won the heisman as a sophomore. That's not really an excuse.

I think JJ is a good quarterback who needs to fix his glaring mistakes so he can become a great quarterback.

Anyway, while Les Miles is responsible for the atrocious offense this year, the problem would likely be gone if we fired Crowton. I think Les is a good coach and firing him would be a mistake because finding someone better would be difficult. He obviously knows what he is doing, but our offensive coordinator does not.

It's difficult to be optimistic for our offense next year since Crowton is staying, but if we do bad again next year offensively he will almost certainly be fired.

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What I find interesting is that so many people don't want to hold the HC accountable for the problems in his own program.

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I'm sitting here in my double-wide in Choudrant, sipping on a Seagrams and Diet, threatening to beat my kid because his dog just shite in my house shoes...how do I hold the HC accountable??

History repeats itself. Looks like the DiNardo-Tepper scenario starting to unfold all over again: A stubborn head coach refusing to make the necessary changes to his staff which will result in said head coach going down with the ship. He pulled the plug on the Mallveto Monster, so why wont he do something about the Crowton Catastrophe? The only glimmer of hope may be Gonzales, but he wouldn't have even been hired if DJM hadn't been caught with his hand in the cookie jar..........

Florida is a perfect example of a team that underachived with a sopohomore QB in 2007. However, Tim Tebow was the Heisman winner that year.

Sorry...I couldn't resist.

A lot of teams have 19 year old quarterbacks, its college. Not being ranked in the top 50 is pathetic. Most of the problem is play calling. We have more unused talent than most teams have talent (for sure if you go to the top 112!). We never adjust our game plan to what is happening. FIX THIS!

Just how many offensive plays did we average a game? Where does that compare with the rest of the SEC teams? Some of you stat junkies should have these answers. I tend to drink too much before the game to remember all those details. I do remember the defense spent way too much time on the field.

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I do remember the defense spent way too much time on the field.

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this is bc when the passing game was working, Crowton would call some ingenious rushing plays

I'm always dismayed that many people can't tell the difference between providing reasons with making excuses. There is no excuse for this year's offense, but if we are looking for an analysis of what went wrong so that, hopefully, we can address the issues, here are some reasons for our bad season:

Changed to a zone blocking scheme which never developed (running backs also failed to adjust to this new scheme leading to missed holes and cut-back lanes).

Stubborn coordinator and position coaches who were never on the same page.

Play calling that failed to adapt to the skills on the field (expecting to get better by improving at the new schemes rather than making adjustments).

Young QB and FB (no real FB emerged all season, and the FBs who did play had the same problems with the zone scheme that the RBs did).

TE used to block more than in the past to compensate for the struggling OL.

Now, all of this being said, we can improve if the new coordinators work together and the tecniques for the zone scheme are coached. Living in Houston, I've seen the time it takes for linemen to learn the zone scheme. Again, I'm not excusing the zone scheme. I don't like it, but it takes time to learn and I think we will be better next year on the OL simply by having more time to implement it.