Offensive Impotency Breeds Program Mediocrity

Helcat72 · Post by **Helcat72** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:44 am

The years of mediocre offense hurts the building of depth. When you can't score, you have to play your first team to the very end. When your defense is good enough to keep you in the game...they also get tired and risk injury. You can't just take the first team out in the 4th quarter and say that the "ones have had enough" like a pitcher who has thrown 100 pitches...you have to try and win.

So every year we have kids sitting on the bench getting very little or no playing time. The next year they have to go through the growing pains we are going through now with our O-line, recievers and secondary.

It would be nice to blow out an Adams State or some other team once in a while to let some 2nd or 3rd team kids play so that the next year we wouldn't have first teamers going in so green. At least when we were 0-11 we had a lot of kids with experience back the next few years. I'm not saying we need to revert to that, but this anemic offense is going to hurt more and more. I think we need to either look at a coaching change on the OC side....or re-vamp the scheme to fit the players. This may have been what Kramer was talking about when, (paraphrasing), he talked about trying to scare them into executing something they can't do...and maybe some wholesale changes are in order.

WYCAT · Post by **WYCAT** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:54 am

Couldn't agree more. When I was sitting in the student section (90'-93') this was pretty much the same thing then as well. The big difference was the defense wasn't nearly as good and we lost far more games than over the past couple of years. I have been very happy to see the program turn the corner and as much as anything to see the stadium filling up weekly. I think the last step though is the offense. Until we become more consistently productive in this area the last two years are about as good as it is going to get for the program.

Cat Pride · Post by **Cat Pride** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:04 pm

Why cant we let substitute some kids in the middle of the 2-Q or 3-Q in favorable field positions where we cant get into any big trouble. Gives our starters a breather, and other kids some meaningful development time along side other starting players.

WYCAT · Post by **WYCAT** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:07 pm

If I remember correctly, that was Travis' first playing time. I think he came in for a series at Washington State the week before he took over for Tyler Thomas at Idaho State. He didn't fare very well but it did get him some game experience in a situation where a 3 and out didn't sink the ship.