Blau

February 9th, 2024 at 4:59 PM ^

I’d say anything less than a CFP Championship and pummeling every team by at least 20+ pts has to be looked at as a failure, right?

If Moore beats OSU’s ass in Columbus in November, I seriously believe Day’s safety may be in jeopardy and doubt he makes it out of the stadium in one piece, let alone his job.

The explosive schadenfreude that would ensue would blow Woody’s Team of the Century loss to Bo out of the water and The Horseshoe would dismantle into a black hole. Can’t wait!

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GoBlue96

February 9th, 2024 at 2:07 PM ^

What soft ass move to take a coordinator position and demote yourself.  Perfect for Day's program.  I think his system is washed similar to Rich Rod.

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MGoPHILLY

February 9th, 2024 at 4:06 PM ^

Am I reading this wrong? I'm pretty sure Oregon led the conference in rushing yards and rushing tds despite 90 less rushing attempts.

https://stats.pac-12.com/sports/fball/2023-24/teams?sort=rypg&r=0&pos=r…

If you remove UCLA's non-conference games against Coastal Carolina, SDSU and NC Central, they rushed for 1482 yards on 382 attempts (3.9 yards per rush) with 11 rushing touchdowns.

They went 4-5 in the PAC 12 while avoiding Washington.

 

 

 

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MGoBlue96

February 9th, 2024 at 4:18 PM ^

Yeah, I watched UCLA play a few games in PAC 12 play and the 3.9 aligns with what I saw. Inflated total rushing yards because their QB's weren't any good so they had a ton of rushing attempts and alot of plays where there RB's were having to fight to get decent yardage. I certainly did not see anything scheme wise that stuck out as the cutting edge Chip Kelly of 10-15 years ago.

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Kinda Blue

February 9th, 2024 at 4:31 PM ^

Not sure I see the stats that way.  They had a terrible rushing performance against Utah and a better but poor performance against Cal.  But they were close or above 200 yards against the Pac10 opponents (except Arizona which was 110+ yards).  That includes a really good rushing performance in a losing effort against an Oregon State team that actually played defense (some of whom we will see versus MSU next year).

If you remove our weakest opponents from the analysis, I suspect their rushing numbers and ours look pretty similar.  I bet they averaged more against weaker defenses.  Our running game was certainly better, but I think the comparison at least reveals UCLA did not suck at running the football.

All in all, UCLA only gave up 18.5 ppg and averaged 198 ypg.  If they had a QB, they could have been a lot better.

This hire is probably a bigger concern than their portal success.  But we shall see.  I still think we have every chance to beat them next year if our culture of hard work and execution carries over into our new regime.

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Michigan4Life

February 9th, 2024 at 5:20 PM ^

Day worked under Chip Kelly in the past so the offense should mesh well. Chip brings a good run scheme like Pin/Pull, Split Zone, a bunch of variations of zone reads like mid-line, end read, etc. TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins should thrive in this scheme. Throw in Day's passing concept, it should be a better match than BOB offense. 

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Ezeh-E

February 9th, 2024 at 2:52 PM ^

Context is interesting on this. That trajectory from 34th to 5th looks nice with DTR as QB. But then I remember this is in the Pac-12 with not as much D and that DTR was a pretty good college QB.

I hope he's washed up. Still think he's an upgrade from BOB in the sense that he and Day have worked together before

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Killer Khakis

February 9th, 2024 at 2:09 PM ^

Not shocked since he, Day, and their OL coach all worked together on prior staffs. Better OC than BoB but idk if it move the needle per say considering Chip’s hatred for recruiting, philosophical differences to Day, and his lack of toughness at LOS relative to what Michigan has brought. 

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TruBluMich

February 9th, 2024 at 3:20 PM ^

Well, Urban is on the board of their NIL collective for those who think it stopped because he left.  How serious are they about NIL?  The GM for their collective is no other than "We didn't come here to play school."  The board members alone have enough money to fund their entire NIL collective for the rest of my life.

Meyer said his understanding of the rules makes it sound like "collective" is "a fancy word for cheating."

Here's their collective:  https://www.thefoundationohio.com/board/

Here's ours: https://www.championscircleuofm.com/whoweare

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bronxblue

February 9th, 2024 at 2:37 PM ^

His UCLA teams ran a ton more than you'd expect and when they had Charbonnet it was pretty effective.  This year sans Charbonnet they were...fine but their top line numbers goosed by going for 404 yards against an FCS team.  Throw that out and they rushed for around 4.3 ypc against mediocre Pac-12 defenses.  

He did seem to adopt a more B1G friendly offense than what you saw from other Pac-12 teams but he wants to run the ball a ton and that's not what Day really likes to do.  If they can work together it'll probably work against most opponents but OSU has some questions at QB and OL that I'm not sure Chip really addresses.

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