Bet the farm: Where will offense rank next year?

[ThreatMatrix]

Regular season BTW.
Lots of arguing back and forth about Mac's ability to coach, recruit, develop talent. Not to mention Nuss's ability to call plays. Hope, prayers, crystal balls. We won't find out until next year but if you had to bet the farm what would you put your money on?

No excuses next year. I'm going to assume a competent QB just because we're due.

Break it down:
1) Talent
2) Execution
3) Play calling

I say we have the talent. The other two, not so sure.

 

[oxrageous]

I'll be kind: 81-100. See no reason why it would be higher.

 

[Gator by the Sea]

I'm a gambler...but a smart one. I went with 81-100.

 

[maheo30]

Top 5 baby!!!

 

[rogdochar]

I went with 41-60 because it takes only a few ypg-average climb to rise a lot in those rankings.??

 

[MidwestChomp]

I'm feeling like Kenny Rogers...we are in the 60s!

 

[ThreatMatrix]

I went with 41-60 because it takes only a few ypg-average climb to rise a lot in those rankings.??

#1 565 ypg
#20 477 (~90 yard difference)
#40 443 (~ 35)
#60 421 (~ 22)
#80 391 (~30)
#100 373 (~20)
#116 344 (~30)

Can we get 50 yards per game better?
BTW our passing offense was 79th (216 ypg) and the rushing was 113th (128 ypg). Rushing game has nowhere to go but up. If that's better it should help the passing game or so I've been told.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Poll should be

1-20- Good
21-40- Mehhh
41-Nussland - Total Dung

Please dont act like breaking the top 100 with a flagship university of one of the top 3 states talentwise is anything other than a disaster.

The sad truth is the Nusschump would need a fvkking miracle to manage to ascend to a Charley Cheeseburgerlike performance.

 

[rogdochar]

#1 565 ypg
#20 477
#40 443
#60 421
#80 391
#100 373
#116 344

... so 80 ypg improvement puts us better than #60. It's a dumpy little farm.

 

[MJMGator]

 

[Gator Fever]

Heck the offense with Tebow and Harvin would just miss the top 20 in total offense now with how wide open offenses have become.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Heck the offense with Tebow and Harvin would just miss the top 20 in total offense now with how wide open offenses have become.

It was always a conservative run unless you have to pass offense. I think Osux was in the bottom third ofnpassing offenses last year also, even against those putrid Big 10 secondaries.

Also if you are looking at total offense, adding games makes it hard to compare especially if younare looking at offenses of past decades.

 

[Gator Fever]

It was always a conservative run unless you have to pass offense. I think Osux was in the bottom third ofnpassing offenses last year also, even against those putrid Big 10 secondaries.

Also if you are looking at total offense, adding games makes it hard to compare especially if younare looking at offenses of past decades.

I just look at the per game average but I agree about Meyer's system. It does really rack up the yards against inferior opponents however.

 

[ThreatMatrix]

... so 80 ypg improvement puts us better than #60. It's a dumpy little farm.

Here's another way (maybe pointless) to look at:
If we improve by
10% (+35 ypg) = 379 ypg => 94th
20% (+70 ypg) = 414 ypg => 65th
25% (+86 ypg) = 430 ypg => 52nd
30% (+105 ypg) = 449 ypg => 37th

So there's the benchmark. About a 25% increase in offense (80 ypg) will be a marked improvement. Thirty ypg from the new and improved rushing game and fifty ypg from the new and improved passing game for over 420 ypg average.

 

[KronoGator]

I think we'll be a race for dead last, by now everyone in the SEC has seen our 5 plays.

 

[T REX]

Our defense is going to give up a lot of yards/points....

Expect the offense to have to play lots of catch up. It will be fools gold yardage.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

Do you ever look at the company you are in and start to second guess yourself?

 

[ufgator812]

Do you ever look at the company you are in and start to second guess yourself?

This is one of the lessons my father tried to teach me when I was a wee tot. It turned out that he was right!

 

[BostonGator84]

I wonder how much better our YPG would have been last year if we were allowed to play Presbyterian.

Last year, our team had 2805 yards passing and 1667 yards rushing, in 13 games. So, that's what, 344 YPG, good for 116th out of 128 teams. Dang that was bad.

Anyway...where was I...oh yeah. Let's say they play Presbyterian and wax them the same way that we did against North Texas. Given that Presbyterian went 2-9...maybe that's generous. So UF rushed for 255 and passed for 217 against North Texas. Adding those same stats into our results would give us 3022 passing and 1922, in 14 games. So that is...wait for it...353 YPG, good for 112th in the country.

Ok so that didn't give as much of an improvement as I was expecting. But I'm still glad I did the exercise. In order to crack the top 100, we would have had to produce 754 yards in the Presbyterian game.

What's the moral of the story here? LSU didn't screw us as bad as I thought, and our offense still sucks.

 

[GatorBart]

I wonder how much better our YPG would have been last year if we were allowed to play Presbyterian.

Last year, our team had 2805 yards passing and 1667 yards rushing, in 13 games. So, that's what, 344 YPG, good for 116th out of 128 teams. Dang that was bad.

Anyway...where was I...oh yeah. Let's say they play Presbyterian and wax them the same way that we did against North Texas. Given that Presbyterian went 2-9...maybe that's generous. So UF rushed for 255 and passed for 217 against North Texas. Adding those same stats into our results would give us 3022 passing and 1922, in 14 games. So that is...wait for it...353 YPG, good for 112th in the country.

Ok so that didn't give as much of an improvement as I was expecting. But I'm still glad I did the exercise. In order to crack the top 100, we would have had to produce 754 yards in the Presbyterian game.

What's the moral of the story here? LSU didn't screw us as bad as I thought, and our offense still sucks.

Thanks for the effort!