K-State Football...

[michigancat]

Again, the chances for scoring are greater when you have possession of the ball.  Why wouldn't one want to maximize time of possession if this is the case?

Getting first downs would be more important than TOP when it comes to having possession of the ball.

However, with that said, part of the problem regarding our OL being a bunch of FP's is due to the excessive time spent on pass blocking.  Any OL worth his salt would MUCH rather run block and knock somebody's dick in the dirt than pass block any day.  We spend WAY too much time working on pass blocking, IMHO, which in turn, causes our OL to become bigger FP's.

I can kind of see that, but do you spend more time trying to depussifying your OL (possibly costing wins this year, possibly increasing wins in the future), or more time trying to reduce sacks and interceptions when trying to get the ball to your best player (more likely increase wins this year).

It seems that we are continuing to recruit pass-blocking FP's though, and I tend to agree with Ballplayers at gopowertard in that Freeman is an incredible talent, but doesn't seem to have the "intangibles" that it takes to win close games.  We may be stuck in this funk for at least another 2 years or so...

BP should stick to basketball.  Freeman lacks an OL more than "intangibles".  I think Ell won maybe two close games his entire career.  We were good when Ell was our QB.



Also, another fun stat (this site is awesome):


KSU is 7th in the country in red zone yards per carry.

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Name  G  Att  Yards  Avg.  TD  Long  1st  10+  20+
1 Louisiana Tech 9 49 221 4.51 13 19 13 8 0
2 Maryland 9 60 262 4.37 22 19 14 10 0
3 Illinois 10 53 223 4.21 16 16 12 5 0
4 Arkansas 9 73 279 3.82 16 17 11 8 0
4 Texas Tech 8 38 145 3.82 14 17 8 3 0
6 Florida 9 88 335 3.81 24 19 22 11 0
7 Kansas State 9 77 289 3.75 16 20 19 11 1
8 West Virginia 8 90 335 3.72 23 20 19 12 2
9 Oregon 9 82 303 3.70 24 18 19 11 0
10 Kentucky 9 74 270 3.65 14 18 17 11 0

http://www.cfbstats.com/2007/leader/national/team/offense/situational21/category01/sort02.html

[catzacker]

I kind of LOL at the criticism JF is taking for not being able to win close games.  I'm kind of a hard ass when it comes to JF, but what is he supposed to do against Auburn when AA throws a no hitter and gives Auburn's best defensive player a clear shot at him about 1.5 seconds after the snap?  What's JF supposed to do when Viers forgets to block McClinton play in and play out?  Was he supposed to make our TE's hold onto the ball against OSU?  ISU was probably one of his poorer games, and really he was affected by a couple of drops by his WR's (mainly Jordy, but I ain't mad at Jordy). 

[michigancat]

Update:

I emailed Marty at cfbstats.com, and he added Red Zone TD% to his site, so I now have Red Zone TD % for all 119 teams:

http://cfbstats.com/2007/leader/national/team/offense/split01/category27/sort01.html

His site also has stats broken down by where the plays take place...so I compared the correlations of RZYPC, RZYPA, YPC, and YPA.  Yards per attempt had a slightly higher correlation that yards per carry, both in the red zone and overall.  All correlations are pretty weak, really, but blaming KSU's Red Zone problems on a failure to "establish the run" looks pretty silly..

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