Well, help me with this one. Marshall has played 12 games this year, six of those at home. In those 6 home games they failed to produce an offensive TD in the first Q all year, o'fer season. The stadium has been open for 27 years and this is the first time that has ever happened.
So, if you are doing your job effectively, putting the time into properly game planning for each opponent, how are you so ineffective game after game? How can you not devise a single plan that effective exploits the weaknesses of the opponent that you have seen on film? Keep in mind that it wasn't like we played Alabama at home every game.
My take is that we simply don't change our game plan to exploit weaknesses of our individual opponents. We are reactionary, not proactive, on offense. We do what we do, same thing week after week, year after year. In order for that to be successful you are putting players in a position where they have to execute flawlessly to be successful. Problem is that they are not coached well enough to be flawless, no team is, and we don't have the overall quality of players to cover the mistakes that will certainly happen. That's where coaching matters most. You have to know the capabilities of your players, most importantly their weaknesses as they pertain to your opponents strengths, and adjust accordingly.
The highest ranked offense Legg has produced without Cato is 64th. In the 5 seasons excluding 2012-14 our average offensive rank is 96th. If it's an execution issue everyone of those 5 seasons then we are either really poorly coached or have done a horrid job recruiting offensive talent.
