Who's going to the Spring Practice April 2nd?

[TheCusian]

I'll be there. My wife will be the one chasing our 4 year old in the 300's.

 

[A Clockwork Orange]

For the 2nd time in a long time I'm seriously thinking about attending as I would like a sneak peek at the new no huddle "fast" offense. One way to kill a fast offense is for it to go 3 & out but that is true of any offense. I haven't looked at Baylors early offense during the first 3 years under Briles but I bet it was a struggle.

I know some people are comparing FOCGM "fast offense" to HCDB's but the problem with GM's offense was that he got stuck in the mud regarding implementation and especially play calling. Funny but I would bet that many of the plays are the same as GM had as he did study a fast spread offensive style that he wanted to implement but its entirely different when it comes to implementation and execution. Here is where HCDB's experience on the "how's" will be a night and day difference. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out over the next few years.

One more tidbit - HCDB simply "loves the Dome" and prefers that no air conditioning ever gets installed. Indoor track meet, with the highest temp & humidity, is what he prefers! Thank goodness we finally have found a head coach whose offensive style of play perfectly matches and takes advantage of our Dome environment!

I don't know about you guys but I cannot wait for football to start!

Overall Baylor's offense thrived in the first three years. The 2nd year, RG III was injured for the last 8 games, so that skews the numbers a bit as they were playing with a third stringer. Here's a comparison I did a couple of weeks ago:

Baylor Before Briles
2005: 23 PPG
2006: 23 PPG
2007: 18 PPG

With Briles
2008: 27 PPG
2009: 21 PPG
2010: 31 PPG

For comparison's sake, lets look at SU's point output over the past three years:

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2013: 23 PPG
2014: 17 PPG
2015: 27 PPG

If Babers could add nine points per game to SU's output, like Briles did in his first year, well... wow. That would be a 19 point increase in a two year period for SU. That would be nearly unprecedented. I think adding 4 to 5 points a game could be doable though. If he did add 9 points per game that would have put us at 26th in the country in 2015. Out of the top 26 teams in the country in scoring in 2015, only two had losing records. And those losing records were 6-7. All 26 made bowl games.

A 4 or 5 point increase would put us at right around 50th in the country. We were 77th in reality in 2015. How did that Briles guy do at Baylor after we stop tracking him in 2010? His team lead the nation in scoring this year at 48.1 PPG.