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Message: [QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 40543, member: 297"] I super appreciate it when posters refute my claims that we need better offense and are lagging behind 99 other programs in college football in producing offense by telling me that real football ain't video games. Please, keep reminding me of this. I'm a forgetful sort, so the constant reminders that offense is different in the real world from offense in video game simulations is really needed. ANYWAY, just for kicks I decided to see how offense in college football from 1994 compares to offense in 2010. I selected 1994 because that was the year when the Madden video game franchise really exploded. I used full season data in order to draw the comparison. In 1994, 2 teams averaged over 500 yards of total offense per game, and 31 teams averaged over 400 yards per game. The ten most inept offenses averaged 253.8 yards per contest. In 2010, 6 teams averaged over 500 yards of total offense per game, and 42 teams averaged over 400 yards per game. The ten most inept offenses averaged 285.91 yards per contest. So what can we conclude from this? I think it's pretty clear - the proliferation of video games have directly ushered in a new era of high powered offense. OF COURSE THAT'S NOT THE CONCLUSION TO DRAW, YOU STOOGE. This is what I would conclude though - as compared to an arbitrary point selected some 15+ years ago, we're seeing more offense in college football. Not just at the top either - there are more ultra explosive offenses, and more offense in general. Even the bad teams seem to be moving the ball better as compared to teams from 1994. So, can we agree that if a poster (I'm a likely suspect) is troubled by the lack of offensive performance demonstrated by Syracuse and voices said troubles, and says that given the current landscape of college football it doesn't seem like it's too much to ask to have better offensive performance overall, that maybe, just maybe, that argument is based on things actually happening on the football field and not on video games? And that reminding them that real college football is not video games is extremely unnecessary? Can we agree to that? [/QUOTE]

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