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[QUOTE="supp, post: 1890696, member: 702"]
I think there's something to this.  The pattern we have had in our FBS games would seem to bear that out.  According to the coaches and players, every play has a run-pass option called on the field once the defense has set.  All it takes is the QB making the wrong read, the line blowing its assignments, the RB hitting the wrong hole, etc. for it all to go wrong.  The good news perhaps is that more right calls are being made on the field after the first quarter.  There are still long droughts (really from 10 minutes in the 1st to 10 minutes in the 3rd or so in this game) but there were some signs vs. UConn that the players are figuring things out.

This is likely the first experience that Dungey has had in reading defenses on the fly and making calls on the field.  Last year, with the deliberate play clock, I would say that everything was pretty much scripted.  Things went wrong there too and Dungey improvising was about 50% of our offense (this, by the way, is where comparisons made on the board of last year's offense and this year's fall down).  Babers' offense is all execution.  Poorly executed, it looks like crap.  That's why they practice the same 15-20 plays over and over again.
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