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4 losses in a row in 2018

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On the bright side, our insane inability to convert 3rd downs last year took us from nearly being stuck in purgatory to having an entirely new direction as a program a short while later. We don't know if it's going to work or not yet, but we know for sure the previous direction was failing.

Focus on conversions. Punt the ******* ball farther than 40 yards. And, let's see what happens.
 
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skeeper said:
16-13
27-14
20-12
27-21

We score 28 pts those four games last year we’re 11-1.

Going to be a good year in 2019.
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If you think about it - over ten games - that would be only 3 points per game. Three points - PER GAME!

Our punting alone cost us that much.

Four additional scoring drives the entire season - would have provided those 28 points.
 
LuCane said:
On the bright side, our insane inability to convert 3rd downs last year took us from nearly being stuck in purgatory to having an entirely new direction as a program a short while later. We don't know if it's going to work or not yet, but we know for sure the previous direction was failing.

Focus on conversions. Punt the ******* ball farther than 40 yards. And, let's see what happens.
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Lu, I ran across Brevin Jordan highlights last year - and I can't count the number of times he caught something on the edge - always third and whatever - and he tried - but was a yard short. Time after time, after time.

Of course the defense was already onto our run, run, throw, punt routine - and kids - little kids in the stands were calling our plays like they had ESP.
 
skeeper said:
16-13
27-14
20-12
27-21

We score 28 pts those four games last year we’re 11-1.

Going to be a good year in 2019.
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And in the 27-14 game, 10 of those 27 against us came from 2 drives that started on our 14 due to awful TOs. All the offense had to do last year was not crap the bed. I mean, ****, look at those four games. That's an average of 15 ppg against mediocre ACC teams.
 
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We'retheBoss said:
And in the 27-14 game, 10 of those 27 against us came from 2 drives that started on our 14 due to awful TOs. All the offense had to do last year was not crap the bed. I mean, ****, look at those four games. That's an average of 15 ppg against mediocre ACC teams.
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The wipeout against Wisconsin just showed how little we had progressed from game 1
 
Most games the additional points shouldn’t have even been necessary. In most of those losses our turnovers created more free points for our opponents than their own offenses.

Look at the drive charts from those games and it’s downright sickening.
 
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We'retheBoss said:
And in the 27-14 game, 10 of those 27 against us came from 2 drives that started on our 14 due to awful TOs. All the offense had to do last year was not crap the bed. I mean, ****, look at those four games. That's an average of 15 ppg against mediocre ACC teams.
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This is a great point to remember, thanks for bringing it up:

Of GTs 27 points:
- 7 came off a Deejay Dallas KO return fumble and GT started the drive on our 23 yd line
- 3 came off a Nkosi Perry fumble, GT started the drive in FG range on our 39, our D stopped them and they kicked a FG
- another 3 came off a Jeff Thomas PR fumble on our 10 yd line, our D stopped them again and they kicked a FG

Outside of that our defense only gave up 14 points.

You can do the same thing all year - LSU scored 33 on us but our D only legitimately gave up 20. FSU scored 27 on us but our D only really gave up 14 (even one of these TDs FSU started on our 36 after a big FSU punt return). There’s no way any other defense was put in worse position in the country last year. Even if you just account for part of those points, we would’ve easily been top 10 in scoring defense.
 
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We were 17 points from winning 10 games and UF was 21 points from winning 7 games a year ago (and can’t claim “because we’re SEC” because the 3 close wins were USCjr, Vandy, and Miss State - 2 of the 3 worst in the conference and Miss State dropped a sure TD in that game wide open)

UF was outscored in conference games. All points to a team about to take a step back in year 2 especially if they were to drop a big game week 1 and their playoff “hopes” (lol) go down the drain.

On the other hand, our offense improved as soon as Richt resigned. There was literally no one we could’ve hired that could have regressed our offense any further unless we hired Taggart at our OC.
 
skeeper said:
16-13
27-14
20-12
27-21

We score 28 pts those four games last year we’re 11-1.

Going to be a good year in 2019.
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Very similar to the 2006 season. If Coker had any offense in his last year, the Hurricanes are 11-1 in the regular season.
 
caneworld said:
We also pulled some miracles out of the hat... so all in all , we were who our record showed who we were.
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Not true. We went 1-3 in 1-possession games. Our scoring and yardage margins also suggested we should've been at least an 8-5 team. IIRC both FPI and S&P+ had us 27th overall, which is much better than our 7-6 record.

We underachieved last year, but we also had some bad in-game luck. Not to mention having by far our best offensive player suffer a devastating career-ending injury.
 
Coastal is super weak. UVA and Pitt are well-coached tryhard teams but sweeping that division should be a relative cakewalk for any legit program. Any competent coach would have Miami in the ACCCG competing every year. It's absurd that it's taken this long to figure out.
 
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