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Enos AT Arkansas:Year 1

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I know people has posted some total numbers for enos offenses over the years and they haven't all been that good.

But instead of yards i just looked up how much was the offense scoring. In enos 1st year at arkansas they finished 27th in scoring offense with 35.9 ppg.

Digging deeper they averaged 43.3 ppg in wins and 24.3 in losses. Vs conference opponents they averaged 34.4 ppg. Averaged 30 ppg vs ranked teams. And averaged 34.4 vs power 5 teams. he put 50 on mullen and diaz that year too.

For comparisons last year miami averaged 42 ppg in wins and 13.3 ppg in loses. They averaged just 24.6 ppg in acc play. Averaged only 17 ppg vs ranked teams(only played lsu). Averaged just 21.7 vs power 5.

**** even in 2017 with a 10-0 start the offense was trash. They averaged 24.4 ppg in acc play, 24ppg vs ranked teams, and 24.4 vs power 5.

Arkansas passing offense was 102nd the year before enos took over. He got them all the way up to 32nd in year 1. Miami was 113th last year.


If enos can get this offense to produce year 1 like arkansas did then this team should win no less than 10-11 games. Arkansas won 8 games year one with a defense that was 68th in scoring and the schedule was tougher than what miami has this year.
 
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Hes got his work cut out for him that's for sure. Good news is he's not green and he's proven to have done it before. I think we have the most potential of any team in college football this season. These kids finally feel like all sides of the ball can help throw haymakers this year.
 
The only ranked team we played was LSU and we finished 7-5 with a blowout in a bowl game...wow
 
CaneAD said:
The only ranked team we played was LSU and we finished 7-5 with a blowout in a bowl game...wow
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Pitt was ranked 24th too at the end of the season.(2nd hottest team in the acc team at the time especially on offense and got blew out by Miami
 
I believe that simplicittic offenses like Riley/Briles work better in today's CFB but Enos is a pro caliber OC and he'll get this offense turned around.

Chris Peterson at Boise (haven't seen his offense at Washington) or Bobby Petrino offense at Arkansas is what we've seen in the spring game and what we will continue to see while Enos is calling plays.
 
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Moonman said:
To add to that, Brandon Allen went from

2014 - 2285 YDS, 20 TD, 56% completion percentage

to

2015 - 3440 YDS, 30 TD, 66% completion percentage

That's significant.
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What were his yards per completion? What were their run vs pass numbers the year prior and that year? An offense can certainly change things up for a QB and that offense helped him greatly it would appear.

As for what one does in year one as an OC, the numbers should always be better. You're replacing something that didn't work. Your opponents don't have film for what you're going to do. Late season games, they have early season film to plan for you, but as the new offense you have the drop on the defense.

Coaching is like chess and the more information you have on someone to know their tendencies, the better off you'll be. He gets off to a slow start here, we have a problem.
 
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SayWhat said:
What were his yards per completion? That is a very good increase on his completion percentage.
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Not sure but Arkansas yards per attempt were 9th in the country in 2015 and 21st in the country in 2016 which is elite

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SayWhat said:
What were his yards per completion? What were their run vs pass numbers the year prior and that year? An offense can certainly change things up for a QB and that offense helped him greatly it would appear.

As for what one does in year one as an OC, the numbers should always be better. You're replacing something that didn't work. Your opponents don't have film for what you're going to do. Late season games, they have early season film to plan for you, but as the new offense you have the drop on the defense.

Coaching is like chess and the more information you have on someone to know their tendencies, the better off you'll be. He gets off to a slow start here, we have a problem.
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He went from 6.7 Y/A to 9.3 Y/A Not sure about the rest.
 
2 points on that schedule.

1) Saying they faced a tougher schedule than we will this year is an enormous understatement. They played nc Bama, LSU, top 10 ole miss, a&m, ranked Tennessee team etc. And averaged 30 points against that schedule.

2) They also had a few duds earlier in the season. Lost game 2 to Toledo 16-12. And dropped the next week to Texas tech who does not play defense 35-24. They dropped 51 on Diaz in late November. If history repeats itself it may take this offense a while to get rolling this year.
 
The strength of this team the past few years has been the defense, that's not going to change. If Enos can make the offense slightly above average then 10 wins should be the floor.
 
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[]_[] swag said:
2 points on that schedule.

1) Saying they faced a tougher schedule than we will this year is an enormous understatement. They played nc Bama, LSU, top 10 ole miss, a&m, ranked Tennessee team etc. And averaged 30 points against that schedule.

2) They also had a few duds earlier in the season. Lost game 2 to Toledo 16-12. And dropped the next week to Texas tech who does not play defense 35-24. They dropped 51 on Diaz in late November. If history repeats itself it may take this offense a while to get rolling this year.
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The crazy part is they did have struggles vs the weaker part of the schedule and they played teams with horrible defenses. But it didnt take long for the offense to get going.

In august/september (first 4 games) they averaged 26.3ppg. In october which was 4 more games they averaged 38.8ppg. In november they averaged 40.5ppg over the last 4 games of the season.

So it took 4 games to get going but as i said it was weird with them not scoring more vs horrible defenses early.
 
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