ACC Fantasy Football Focus: Head Coach Bowl Preparation Discussion

by BirdGT on Dec 2, 2010 8:00 AM EST in Georgia Tech Football

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The ACC Focus piece today is a quick rundown of head coaches in the ACC and their overall bowl records as we head into bowl season. Sadly, CPJ has the worst active bowl winning percentage of all ACC head coaches at 33%. Despite having the second-best all time record amongst multi-yeared ACC coaches, CPJ's bowl record is definitely a blemish on his record.

If I were a betting man, I'd never bet against CPJ. However, I might take up a bet against CPJ if it involved a bowl game. What do you think?

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What I think

The last two bowl games were against teams that were better than us talent-wise. This season will pit us against a lower quality team (than LSU or Iowa), and we’ll get to see if it’s actually CPJ’s preparation or the teams for which he prepared.

by acedarney on Dec 2, 2010 10:06 AM EST reply actions

I don't feel like other teams having a lot of time kills us

I think it’s us having a lot of time that does us in. It’s seemed of late as if we’re always very out of offensive rhythm in bowl games….due to not having played a full-speed game for a month. Now, I know CPJ apparently runs full-speed practices all the time, but it never really feels like we’re just humming along and clicking like normal in bowl games. It’s just off…..and there’s no telling why, outside of the possibility that we’re just out of rhythm from waiting so long.

by LilBroey700 on Dec 2, 2010 10:13 AM EST reply actions

good point.

This can be a good discussion for the offseason. We’ve run numbers showing how teams play against us with a week or more or prep time. But i don’t think we’ve checked the stats to see how we perform with more time off.

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by Winfield Featherston on Dec 2, 2010 11:10 AM EST up reply actions

we actually have run both

If CPJ has more than a week to prep, his teams are 23-15 (61%). CPJ is 39-26 (60%) with 7 days of prep.

I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.

by BirdGT on Dec 2, 2010 11:24 AM EST up reply actions

even crazier

ACC teams the week after they play Tech have an awful record. They are 8-16 (33%) the week after playing Tech.

I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.

by BirdGT on Dec 2, 2010 3:52 PM EST up reply actions

full-speed practices

I don’t know how full-speed practices are conducted, but if the scout team is playing as the opposing defense, then they definitely aren’t as fast or skillful as the opponent’s defense and that might help explain why the rhythm is off: the opposing defense is faster and more disruptive than the scout team defense. It’s kind of like the opposing team’s scout team trying to run the GT offense – they can’t run it as fast or skillfully as GT’s offense does.

by Dive Keep and Pitch on Dec 2, 2010 11:12 AM EST up reply actions

I blogged about this a long time ago

I refer to this as the timing-sensitive nature of this offensive system. Tech seems to have the hardest time if they have too much time off. The next hardest time seems to be having too little time between games. The latter I attribute to leg weariness impacting the speed of play. With too much time off this offense seems to lose a step due to tentativeness or thinking rather than reacting.

by Atlanta's original team on Dec 2, 2010 11:21 AM EST up reply actions