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<blockquote data-quote="Point-Illinois" data-source="post: 1703508" data-attributes="member: 747217"><p>The thing is, there are only so many hours in the off season and pre-season the coaches are allowed to practice with these guys.</p><p></p><p>So do you use those precious hours setting up, practicing, developing muscle memory and mentally engraining an offense you would use for 2 scrubs and (what was thought to be) a weak power 5 opponent? (BTW, a healthy Belo probably stops that loss from happening)</p><p></p><p>Or do you spend those precious hours setting up, practicing, developing muscle memory and mentally engraining the offense you plan to use for 95% of the season? This is especially important for the freshmen/new guys, which we had quite a few of.</p><p></p><p>So no, I wouldn’t expect us to have developed and really gotten good at an offense that wasn’t this season’s planned offense and 100% believe Brad’s comments.</p><p></p><p>As an analogy, this is like college football teams playing the service academies. They spend no time (until that game week) preparing for the game against Air Force/Army/Navy. It’s just not a good return on investment to prepare more than that considering it’s only 1 game out of 12. That’s why P5 teams often “underperform” against service academies (even if they still win). Coaches are banking on their ability to out-talent/out scheme these option teams with little prep. Often times it works, sometimes it doesn’t.</p><p></p><p>BU took the same risk. It’s biting us because of the plethora of random “this player is out” circumstances he’s had to deal with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Point-Illinois, post: 1703508, member: 747217"] The thing is, there are only so many hours in the off season and pre-season the coaches are allowed to practice with these guys. So do you use those precious hours setting up, practicing, developing muscle memory and mentally engraining an offense you would use for 2 scrubs and (what was thought to be) a weak power 5 opponent? (BTW, a healthy Belo probably stops that loss from happening) Or do you spend those precious hours setting up, practicing, developing muscle memory and mentally engraining the offense you plan to use for 95% of the season? This is especially important for the freshmen/new guys, which we had quite a few of. So no, I wouldn’t expect us to have developed and really gotten good at an offense that wasn’t this season’s planned offense and 100% believe Brad’s comments. As an analogy, this is like college football teams playing the service academies. They spend no time (until that game week) preparing for the game against Air Force/Army/Navy. It’s just not a good return on investment to prepare more than that considering it’s only 1 game out of 12. That’s why P5 teams often “underperform” against service academies (even if they still win). Coaches are banking on their ability to out-talent/out scheme these option teams with little prep. Often times it works, sometimes it doesn’t. BU took the same risk. It’s biting us because of the plethora of random “this player is out” circumstances he’s had to deal with. [/QUOTE]
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