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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1129731, member: 289"] - Central Michigan found out that mediocre teams ten to follow upsides with downsides. They don’t have the talent to achieve consistency. Will we find that out next week? - The game continued a trend from last year: mediocre opposition becomes less than that when key offensive players become unavailable to them. The Chippewas were missing their top running back, Thomas Rawls and their top receiver, Titus Davis. Could they have made up 37 points? Probably not. But let’s not pretend our defense has turned into the Steel Curtain just because we shut down a crippled team. - The decision making was still kind of a head scratcher. Why did we throw to Adonis Ameen-Moore, a guy who’s never caught a pass, on third down? Why didn’t we just take a knee at the end of the half, rather than running plays from a pistol formation, getting a penalty and finally having to wedge it in front of the goal line just to end the half? Why did Terrel Hunt go all the way in a 40-3 game? Don’t we want to develop Austin Wilson as a reliable back-up and eventual successor? Hunt runs the ball and took a pretty big hit on that last possession, so he’s vulnerable. If we don’t want to throw out the playbook when Wilson does have to come in, why aren’t we playing him at the end of routs? - We dominated but we didn’t show the explosiveness a really good team needs. The longest play was by “The Tank”, Moore and it didn’t go all the way because he didn’t have the speed to take it all the way. Then there was the third down play where Hunt went deep to either Ashton Broyld or Jarrod West, both of them 220 pounders. It was a good throw but neither could get to it. We have some guys who could have gotten to that ball. Why weren’t we throwing to them? - Eleven guys caught Terrell Hunt's passes. The elading receiver was Ashton broyd, with 4 carches, (he's still never scored. When Hunt has a true go-to receiver, or a couple of them as Nassib had in 2012, he won't be throwing to 11 guys. Cooper Rush of CMU also completed passes to 11 guys and he lost by 37 points. - Where is the “hurry up” offense? We got off 79 plays in 33:22 time of possession. That’s 25.34 seconds per play or one play every 2.37 seconds. CMU got off 68 plays in 26:38, giving them 23.50/2.55SU’s stated goal is 18 seconds per play or 3.33 plays per minute. It isn’t how many plays you get off. It’s how many successful plays. Fortunately, we had plenty of them. If the Chips got tired, they got tired of getting knocked on their butts. - The uniforms are OK, I guess. They just didn’t look like Syracuse. Then we threw a bubble screen and I knew it was us. Our sideways plays didn’t accomplish much. But when we went north-south, we got things done. - How bad is Purdue? [/QUOTE]

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