Yes... Campenni was solid on the DL, and Adams at safety. I remember watching Adams booting the dead ball into the stands on an incomplete 3rd down pass vs. BYU when the game was close in the 2nd half, and thought..... " ouch, thats not too smart", ( got a 15 yard unsportsmenlike penalty, gave BYU a 1st down, new life). Stuff happens. BC had their fair share of stupid penalties too this season as well.
Addazio preferrs to run the pro-style offense? I am surprised at how little you know about your
I don't know about this. I think I know Steve Addazio pretty well, having met him, dined once with him ( in my former hometown) and talked with him a few times since he's been the Head Coach at BC. He had a different offense under Meyer at Florida because of what Meyer wanted to run there, and more importantly the players he had for personnel at Florida on offense there. At BC, Addazio his first year ran a Pro Style offense and it was predicated upon primarily running the ball. Thats because the personnel skill levels he found at BC when he arrived was much different than at Florida. BC did not have the receivers. But they did have a veteran offensive line, and a running back that was big, physical, talented ( Andre Williams..of Heisman qualifying abilities ). So he ran the ball in the Pro Set. After Williams graduated, he brought in Murphy from Florida as his QB, and he altered the offense to his skill levels. Last season was a mismatch on offense, as he had 3 QB's that were too slow footed for a Spread... or anything but a Pro Set, but he had a Frosh QB ( Smith ) that could run ( but not throw ), so he utilized him in a different fashion. Its interesting to note that when this season started he had Hilliman ( RB ) primarily running the ball on most plays ( behind Wade at QB). There was no spread offense there. In my view, and hearing Daz, he is actually not wedded to any particular style of offense. Its geared to the particular skill levels of the players he has on offense. That primarily determines what offense style he prefers that season. If Towles beats out Wade, Daz will probably have Towles operating out of a Pro Set style offense, that Kentucky ran last season with Towles at QB.
That totally contradicts what Boyle said he was told when he reopened his recruitment. Here you have a pro-style QB that was told he didn't fit the offensive scheme he was gonna run. He sure didn't run a pro-style offense at Temple.
One thing is for sure...this will be a make or break season for Addazio on the Hill. I can tell you that the first year for a defense after Don Brown leaves can be VERY rough. I can only imagine how hot Coach Smoke & Mirrors' seat will get with a loss to UCONN.
QB... and Towles... was not the primary problem at Kentucky last season, imo. Towles was a 4 star recruited player... Gatorade's Kentucky Player of the Year in his Senior Year at QB in High School. If you think that Uconn is so solid at the QB position right now, that Diaco would not be happy to have him on the Uconn roster for next season, you are just kidding yourself here.
That would concern me if I was a BC fan. I hope you are 100% right about that because if that's the case then BC is in for another season of offensive ineptitude. He's had 3 years to establish HIS system there. Adjusting it season to season, game to game, based on who's healthy and who's on the roster is an odd approach. I get it the first year, adjusting the system to the skills you inherit, but by year 3 a good coach has that sorted out. I guess we will find out next fall.
Absolutely. Addazio needs to beat Uconn for sure, and go bowling next season, or its true, he's probably a goner after next season. He had excuses for this season. But he won't for next season, as he's got lots of young returnees back, including his original starting QB ( Wade ) and RB ( Hilliman )... and a defense returning 19 out of 22 on the 2 deep... a defense that was the best in the nation this season.
Adazzio does get a pass imo, on this season. His injuries to his starting QB, and RB, were devastating to the offense. BC had the youngest football team in the nation this season, as no school had more underclassmen on their 65 roster than did BC. Spaziani and Jags never went out and recruited, and thats just the simple truth. BC was going with an unrecruited student walkon QB for a few games this season. What does that tell you ? Addazio lost his entire OL to graduation last season. This season, he went with the the players he recruited, but they are young, raw, inexperienced. Next season he'll have Wade, Hilliman healthy and back on offense in the backfield ( and Towles ) and 90% of the players on his offense, defense back. I look for BC to rebound next season. But if they don't, Addazio will be gone, and as it should be, imo.
Do you realize we have the #5 class in the country for 2016? Is this because our conference sucks or because Ollie is lazy?
What does that have to do with you not having a clue about what you are talking about? Do you realize the class ranking includes no 5th year transfers? Do not know why I ask, I know you do not.
Huh ? Its a thread topic that is entirely about BC. If the BC topic is not of interest to you, why not simply go to the many non BC oriented topics on here that do interest you, and you will find no " infestation " on those many topics on that by me. I would have no issue if you wanted to chime in on a topic entirely about Uconn on a BC message board either. As a matter of fact, I have learned some new things over the years from Uconn fans on a Uconn topic on a BC message board, and did not consider that experience an "infestation " there if they had some insights that I was not aware of and/ or were respectful in their postings as a visitor to that BC Board. I don't think I have " taken over a thread with a BC agenda". I believe that I have responded respectfully to those on this thread that have commented on my comments in a civil manner ( and purposefully ignored the ones looking to simply engage in the personal insulting biz that has no interest for me.)