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Red Five
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That was a god awful offense
118th in rushing yards/carry
103rd in passing yards/attempt
106th in total yards/play
112th in points/game
ColoradoHusk
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To be fair to Whipple, he inherited a pretty bad offense, which ranked in the bottom 25% in scoring offense in 2017 and 2018.
Red Five
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Pitt's yards/play ranking
2017 Shawn Watson 94th
2018 Shawn Watson 59th
2019 Mark Whipple 106th
2020 Mark Whipple 96th
2021 Mark Whipple 25th
Interestingly, Frost's yards/play ranking since he started at NU: 20th, 72nd, 72nd, 18th
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ColoradoHusk
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I'm not going to pretend that I have any knowledge on Pitt football over the past 5-7 years. I do know that Pat Narduzzi is a defensive-minded coach, who has had middling success. I have no idea about the talent level on offense for those Pitt teams before 2021. In 2021, with an experienced QB and talent at skill positions, Whipple was able to have a very good/great offense, which was the basis for Pitt's best season under Narduzzi. Based on Narduzzi's recent comments, he wasn't sad for Whipple to leave, because Pitt wasn't winning "his way" (lower scoring, defense oriented games, running the ball).
I have no idea if Whipple will be successful here, but I think he has good pieces to make it work here. With his age, this is probably Whipple's last stop in college football, and who knows how long he is looking to last at NU.
ColoradoHusk
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I think we are all aware that Frost's offenses have performed well in moving the ball, but have underachieved in scoring points. Looking at the stats from 2020 and 2021, it shows that Whipple's scoring offense outperforms the yardage offense. Sam McKewon has pointed out that Whipple's offenses have done a very good/great job of throwing TD passes inside the red zone. Any Nebraska fan can tell you that was a weakness under Frost/Martinez. Was Whipple's success due to a future NFL QB (Pickett) or was it Whipple's offense that made Pickett into a star? That's the question we are all trying to figure out.
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Toe
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Depending on this season’s success, if this works out with Wipple, and MJ sticks around, I tend to think Mickey would be the next OC. But if this season is a total failure, then who knows what happens all the way around.
Toe
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Against FBS teams, it's only about a 1.6 PPG advantage, and pretty much all of that is just from the Northwestern blowout. If you also exclude Northwestern, we scored 22.7 PPG vs giving up 25.8 PPG.
admo
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admo
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More from Riley's guys chuckleshuffle Even though Riley receives a lot of blame... maybe he deserves some credit?