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Message: [QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 4371867, member: 16"] And they also spread the ball around to a lot of different backs. Very rarely was there a bell cow. And I'm not going to get into it, but I have no idea what the make-up of those OLs was. Further - I would say the main reason they ran so well in 2013 was that they basically had two NFL-caliber RBs who are still RBs in the league (well, who knows what Hill is - a little bit of everything I guess). And if you look at the YPC average and where that stands across the country, your argument just doesn't stand up. These days a 4.4 YPC average isn't elite, it's a lower tier. This isn't our dad's ground-and-pound football anymore. Let's take another look at the spreadsheet, except using average YPC and national average. Hint - it's not very good when compared to the rest of college football. [TABLE] [TR] [TD][CENTER][B]YEARS[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]YPC[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER][B]NATIONAL RANK[/B][/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]2021 (UVA)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]4.4[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]105[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]2020 (UVA)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]4.4[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]65[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]2019 (UVA)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]3.9[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]96[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]2018 (UVA)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]4.5[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]58[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]2017 (UVA)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]3.1[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]126[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]2016 (UVA)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]3.5[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]114[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]2015 (BYU)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]4.0[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]86[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]2014 (BYU)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]4.2[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]72[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][CENTER]2013 (BYU)[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]4.9[/CENTER][/TD] [TD][CENTER]30[/CENTER][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] So while the stats are very slightly better when broken out to YPC, it's nothing earth-shattering. They only have three years in the 5th percentile and seven years where they are 50th percentile or below. The outlier is Hill and Williams in 2013. And listen, I'm not saying this isn't fine for an offense that is dynamic in the passing game. It is what it is - none of those teams had a Sean Tucker, and we're losing out on having an offense that is even more dynamic if some of the run schemes aren't tweaked to play to our OL and RBs strength. They aren't doing that. That has worked thus far and it will work next week. Right now though, I'm looking at an all-time team, not one that fades down the stretch because the offensive scheme isn't able to adjust to the realities of this team. [/QUOTE]

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