My question for tomorrow night's Dino Babers Show

[SWC75]

Coach Babers’s Show will be at the new Marriott Syracuse, (the former Hotel Syracuse). The first show will be Wednesday night at 7PM because the game is Friday, (the show will normally be two days before the next game). They will be in Shaughnessy’s Irish Pub, which can be accessed from the street.

This article contains the schedule:
New Home for AmeriCU Dino Babers Show

You can also listen to the show live each week on the Syracuse IMG Sports Network and Cuse.com. Wednesday's show will be on 99.1 FM and 97.7 FM, as well. The show will regularly air on 99.5FM (Syracuse) 99.1 FM (Utica) and 1200 AM.”
You can also get it on: Listen to The Clark Howard Show on WGVA on TuneIn

There hasn’t been any change in the phone numbers, which last year were 315-424-8599 (local) or 1-888-746-2873. You can call to ask questions or submit them via Twitter at: #AskDino hashtag on Twitter
Or through Cuse.com, (the SU Athletic website):
Syracuse University Athletics

You can (or could last year, anyway), listen to a podcast of the show, probably the next day, at: Search results for babers | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn

I’ve been asked to continue doing the summaries, even by people who listen to the podcasts. I may focus on the major points, rather than trying to record everything.


My Question(s)

"Coach, people are saying half-jokingly that we should start games as if we were down by three touchdowns, and come out firing as we seem to be at our best facing big deficits. They suggest that our conventional running game has produced little and we might as well abandon it. Do we need to establish the run to set up the pass or can we use the passing game as our fastball and the running game just as a change-up?"

 

[OrangeTarheel]

I have never asked a question on the show before but I feel like asking whether there is any value in abandoning a running game (see other thread on this topic) for the rest of the year. I'd love to hear HCDB talk about that as a hypothetical.

 

[SmilinBob]

The problem with abandoning the run game is that the young OL isn't going to learn from their mistakes if they aren't doing it in games. Personally I hope they use the run game more wisely in almost the reverse order of a wishbone attack and run 8 to 10 times. That said, if they have a lead they're going to have to burn some clock and obviously the run game will do that unless they are highly efficient with their short and medium passes.