I wonder if UCF is playing a vanalla gameplan?
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They probably are. After all, they wouldn't want to give anything away for their big matchup with South Carolina State next week.
So what? They had nothing to hide. Same team, same strategy as last season. And, they don't have Penn State in week two.
Pitt's situation is totally different. Lots of unknowns about changes from last season and Penn State next.
Pitt's situation is totally different. Lots of unknowns about changes from last season and Penn State next.
Yeah, only 650 yards of offense and 8 td's. Probably played a walk-on at qb.
UConn football is a train wreck. Paul Pasqualoni and then bringing back a retread in Edsall.
Edsall should send Pitt and Wannstedt Christmas presents every year because he owes his career to them.
Edsall should send Pitt and Wannstedt Christmas presents every year because he owes his career to them.
I never wanted someone to tear their ACL so bad than when watching that clown jump up and down. Worst BCS team ever!
No it isn’t. By now I think everybody basically knows what every team runs. Do you really think Penn State is going to show something totally different at Pitt versus App St? You are what you are within reason. Sure you may hold back some different formations or crazy plays but we better play as we practice the basic fb plays including passing to our ends. We are not good enough consistently to play the “hold back” game.
Perhaps you may be over reacting somewhat to my intended point? Of course, we will no doubt run our basic offense--we just won't be wide open like UCF was throwing and we won't run anywhere close to our full arsenal of plays from the playbook.
Everyone knew what UCF did last season and will continue to do this season, so UCF had no reason to be basic and not show their wares, IMHO, Pitt is in a very different situation. We are loaded with unknowns about Pickett as our starter (will he be as consistently as good as he was vs Miami?), whether our D is really improved, how our new receiving corps faces will perform, etc. Many prognosticators predict a repeat of last season's 5-7, while a few outlier predictions range anywhere between 3-9 and 10-2. IMO, given that situation, why should we be wide open vs Albany and give PSU a better idea of where we stand? Why not keep them in as much dark about that question as our fans?
Do we really want PSU to know what our pass-run balance will look like vs them? Do we want them to see the full range of plays we might run against them? IMO, any advantage, no matter how small, we can get is worth the secrecy--even if it frustrates Pitt fans who want to know everything about this team pre-season and pre-PSU.
Everyone knew what UCF did last season and will continue to do this season, so UCF had no reason to be basic and not show their wares, IMHO, Pitt is in a very different situation. We are loaded with unknowns about Pickett as our starter (will he be as consistently as good as he was vs Miami?), whether our D is really improved, how our new receiving corps faces will perform, etc. Many prognosticators predict a repeat of last season's 5-7, while a few outlier predictions range anywhere between 3-9 and 10-2. IMO, given that situation, why should we be wide open vs Albany and give PSU a better idea of where we stand? Why not keep them in as much dark about that question as our fans?
Do we really want PSU to know what our pass-run balance will look like vs them? Do we want them to see the full range of plays we might run against them? IMO, any advantage, no matter how small, we can get is worth the secrecy--even if it frustrates Pitt fans who want to know everything about this team pre-season and pre-PSU.
Its a dumb strategy with a complete new team on offense for the most part. They need as many game reps as they possibly can, not to be "held back". Not showing anything worked great in 16 when our team was filled with stars, it wont work when our only hope on offense is a young promising QB who just simply needs more reps.
Going with "vanilla" game plans is usually a bad idea. It's more important to focus on what you do well and practice it over and over and make the other teams struggle to stop it, rather than pretend that you are so smart that you will hide some things and SURPRISE they have never seen that before.
I've always questioned "holding back". You don't run trick plays or show any new packages, necessarily but if you're confident, why not show the world and dare them to stop you? Give them something to worry about? I don't know. I want to see Pickett get the reps he missed by not playing in a bowl.
yeah, you usually don't here a coach say in the news conference "we didn't see them do that the week before" so I would tend to agree.
Wimbush is supposedly starting for ND. UCF has a very good offense and did not miss a beat last night.
UCF played pitch and catch at will. UConn has 17 fr. on their 2 deep and the Lord did not have mercy on their souls.
Unless it refers to clapping...
Well 2 years ago, Pitt surprised the nitters big time by not disclosing their jet sweep packages. I would say, yes you keep it vanilla if you can.
True, but Pitt used the same non-verbal defensive calls the week before, and the PSU head coach didn't catch that, so maybe they wouldn't have noticed the jet sweeps either.
I know that's a projection, but they are both something I'd expect someone making millions of dollars a year to notice.
Did you happen to catch their game against Memphis last year?
Pitt will need to put up 45 plus to beat them. That's the mentality they need to have going to UCF, and they should never be comfortable with any lead.
