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Message: [QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 65895, member: 204"] Really good post. Always thought Jim Carlen was a very good coach. Cool to hear you worked with him. I think your assessment is right - I think Doug has every intention of implementing an offense that manipulates tempo - I think he said that soon after he was hired. But some things have placed a hold on that strategy: (1) he has indicated recently that he felt he needed to first recruit on defense to become competitive; (2) he does not have the talent right now at QB to run an up tempo offense; (3) he needs to win now to get to bowls and improve recruiting and fund raising and (4) he is conforming the offense to what he has in order to accomplish that immediate set of goals. Because of where the program was when he inherited it, I think you have to give him at least three more years to get to where we want to be - especially with the 27 month issue before us. And I'm fine with that. [/QUOTE]