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The losses to U$C and ND were imminently avoidable, and the margin of defeat at ASU was basically two ST turnovers. 

Interesting.

I am far more upset that Stanford was not able to field a team that could meaningfully compete with Oregon and ASU than I am with coming out on the wrong side of a close game vs the domers or the mistakey/fluky loss to S.-C. Close games are going to happen, you're going to win some and lose some. But I don't see any reason Stanford shouldn't be fielding a team that can make a game of it vs Oregon (and ASU).

It's possible Bloomgren might be able to substantially improve Stanford's offense in 2015, but unlikely. Good coaches almost never have years like Stanford's offense in 2014;

And that is based upon what exactly?
Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, maybe it's sometimes true.
So - how do you know that? 

Look across the bay. 

Yep - look.
Last year they had the worst offense in the Pac 12. Filled with comedy of errors. They did run a lot of plays, but were last in yds/play, last in pts/game, last in points per possession. But, they kept their coaches on the offensive side of the ball and this year are one of the better offenses in the Pac 12. Interestingly, they also sucked at defense, but got rid of Buh (don't know if they canned anyone else). Presumably actually paying attention to the details showed that despite similar ineptitude, in one case the coaches were competent and not the other.


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One other item on the offense, but not really related to the post referenced above.

A thing that is driving me crazy is that many of the complaints about the offense are complaints about a system we are not currently running. We are not running a Power Run offense. We are not running much of a run-based offense at all. As noted in another thread, we aren't running the ball that much more than Cal - which runs one of those Raidey offenses. We have only occasionally run the Ogre packages, except suddenly vs Oregon it showed up again.

Personally, I think giving up on the run game is part of the problem. It would appear that some time ago the coaches decided we couldn't run much this year. Thus the Oline (which I think does look like it has some individual talent) seems to have quit learning to run the power game. Now we lurch from approach to approach; season to season and game to game. I don't even know what to call Stanford's offense right now - it's just a bunch of plays hoping something might work this week. No wonder we have execution problems.

[CTcard]

The losses to U$C and ND were imminently avoidable, and the margin of defeat at ASU was basically two ST turnovers. 

Interesting.

I am far more upset that Stanford was not able to field a team that could meaningfully compete with Oregon and ASU than I am with coming out on the wrong side of a close game vs the domers or the mistakey/fluky loss to S.-C. Close games are going to happen, you're going to win some and lose some. But I don't see any reason Stanford shouldn't be fielding a team that can make a game of it vs Oregon (and ASU).

It's possible Bloomgren might be able to substantially improve Stanford's offense in 2015, but unlikely. Good coaches almost never have years like Stanford's offense in 2014;

And that is based upon what exactly?
Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, maybe it's sometimes true.
So - how do you know that? 

Look across the bay. 

Yep - look.
Last year they had the worst offense in the Pac 12. Filled with comedy of errors. They did run a lot of plays, but were last in yds/play, last in pts/game, last in points per possession. But, they kept their coaches on the offensive side of the ball and this year are one of the better offenses in the Pac 12. Interestingly, they also sucked at defense, but got rid of Buh (don't know if they canned anyone else). Presumably actually paying attention to the details showed that despite similar ineptitude, in one case the coaches were competent and not the other.


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One other item on the offense, but not really related to the post referenced above.

A thing that is driving me crazy is that many of the complaints about the offense are complaints about a system we are not currently running. We are not running a Power Run offense. We are not running much of a run-based offense at all. As noted in another thread, we aren't running the ball that much more than Cal - which runs one of those Raidey offenses. We have only occasionally run the Ogre packages, except suddenly vs Oregon it showed up again.

Personally, I think giving up on the run game is part of the problem. It would appear that some time ago the coaches decided we couldn't run much this year. Thus the Oline (which I think does look like it has some individual talent) seems to have quit learning to run the power game. Now we lurch from approach to approach; season to season and game to game. I don't even know what to call Stanford's offense right now - it's just a bunch of plays hoping something might work this week. No wonder we have execution problems.