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Interesting graphic here. This is Arkansas S&P+ for the time Enos was the coordinator.

The solid line is offense only, dotted line is defense only, dark red line is the team.

First takeaway, that 2015 offense was really good. From about Week 4 on, it was a top 12 offense in this metric, and they ended the year #2 (only Oregon was better, with Scott Frost coordinating the offense). And this is obviously at a significant talent disadvantage playing in the SEC West.

Second, the drop-off from there was not great. 2016 was worse, and 2017 was worse still. However, looking closely, 2016 was still a good offense. They spent most of the entire year in the Top 30, which I think we’d all take in a heartbeat. But look at it compared to the defense. That defense was really bad basically the entire time he was there. While he was putting up a top 10 offense in 2015, the defense spent almost the whole year in the 60s and 70s. In those 3 years, the offense was CLEARLY better than the defense. And as we all know way too well, one side of the ball being incredibly awful can certainly impact your whole team.

Just a little food for thought RE: Enos. The numbers weren’t otherworldly for the entire duration but they were pretty **** good considering he had probably the 5th or 6th best talent in his division. And he was consistently better than the other side of the ball. I think we all agree that if Enos can have the offense even close to as effective as the defense has been, we should be ok.
 
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Really cool article here too, although somehow Boyd goes the entire article without mentioning Enos by name a single time. Weird. But it’s a great breakdown of what he called the most underrated offense in college football.

2015 Arkansas Offense
 
Silver King said:
Thanks for the lesson, you know they also have splits, double teams, cross blocking, traps, etc...

I blocked for 4 different thousand yard backs in college, and two before that in high school.

You can get as technical (or as Madden) as you want to get, real football is still a game of eleven guys that all have assignments and have to execute. Fronts, motions, whatever. It comes down to at the snap of the ball if your asisgned guy is owning you, you're not going to run the ball very effectively in your area.

Again, play calling had nothing to do with giving up hurries or sacks against LSU - that was an underperforming O-Line and coaching, that never adjusted.
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Well... which backs and what # did you wear?
 
The Franchise said:
I expect Enos to improve the offense as much as Diaz improved the defense. Dorito and Rickety were equally inept on their sides of the ball, and did an equally horrible job of wasting talent.
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Yeah I don't think people realize how giant the leap is from Richt to even an average OC. What Richt did on offense last year was far worse than Dorito, who was at least trying and had a coherent scheme and philosophy. There's a big difference between ineptitude and apathy.
 
HighSeas said:
Yeah I don't think people realize how giant the leap is from Richt to even an average OC. What Richt did on offense last year was far worse than Dorito, who was at least trying and had a coherent scheme and philosophy. There's a big difference between ineptitude and apathy.
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Don’t ever say anything was worse than Dorito ever again, even in your head. That’s a capital offense.
 
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Liberty City El said:
The most important aspect of this offense IMO will be the run game. In order for us to have a successful season we have to run the ball at a high level. We gotta get back to having a real rushing attack that can control the time of possession & can also be a game breaker for us.

Our run game under Richt was incredibly predictable & easily stuffed, we had no variations at all & put our backs at a disadvantage on a regular basis with how quickly diagnosable our sequences were.

The passing attack was historically bad, literally one of the worst ever in school history, but if we hope to see a major increase in our efficiency in the pass game, having a respectable run game will allow for more versatility in the play calling for our pass attack. If Defenses don't respect our run game, they'll crowd the box with 8-9 man fronts daring us to beat them through the air.

A legit run game will back those Safeties off & open up the field more, plus you can make Defenses pay with spacing.

Enos's biggest task will be to get this Offense to establish an identity. We're going to have to manufacture productivity by exploiting & creating mismatches in opposing Defenses & that can done with pace/tempo catching Defenses off guard while also forcing them to pick their poison.

The key is to actually have 2 different kinds of venom, we have to make them respect the run game if we want to see an improved passing game.
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Literally the opposite of what is bolded above is true
 
Simple expectations from me; move the ball- get first downs, convert 3rd downs, score TDs, cut down on bone head mistakes... SIMPLE!!! Too much talent on this offense for anything to not be SIMPLE...
 
305to954 said:


I think a lot of the fan base a skewed expectation of how the O will look this up coming season. A lot of ppl here and throughout the fan base has been clamoring for a spread, high tempo, high number of plays attack. Enos is not bringing that here.

In the the link was all offensive highlights. And as you can see his offense is a pro multiple..very similar to what jedd Fisch ran while he was here. The thing I loved about Jedds attack was the different ways he would create deep shots & and when he chose to do so. Depending on field position and momentum in the game..

Other than the looks Enos and the bama staff presented the one thing that popped off the screen immediately is the execution up front. That line created constant movement and never got pushed back. This brings me to my conclusion, if we don’t get the execution up front that we need this multiple offense can get very stagnant.

Skill position wise we stack up against anybody. This seasons offens will live or die with the production we get up front. Personally I prefer a multiple offense over a spread because the principles within are hard to game plan for and stop unlike a spread. In a spread if you can just out talent a team your good, but from week to week that is not a realistic formula
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I just found this thread in an open tab in my browser. It has aged well. The OP looks prescient.
 
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