UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway

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Peppers49 said:
Posted this before but I think you can still be a good college team without having a spread/air-raid scheme if you have a strong o-line, good run blocking schemes, and smart QB play with a suffocating defense to go along with it. Michigan and Georgia in recent seasons would be the formula.

I just don’t think UNC can recruit quite well enough for that though. I’m with you that one of the most alarming things about Belichick is that he didn’t try to get a proven college play caller that could mask some of our personnel deficiencies with a good scheme. Whatever we’re trying to do on that side of the ball isn’t working at all.
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Totally agree with all of the above. I know that things went south big time under Mack but I really loved Longo's offensive scheme and philosophy those first two to three years under Mack 2.0. Especially in 2020, we had so many ways that we could beat you on offense. Don't account for our QB in the run game? He's going to hurt you. Try to shut down our passing game? Fine, we'll pound you with our two stud running backs. Stack the box to take away our running backs? Fine, our QB is going to throw right over the top of you to our wide receivers who just ran past your entire defense. I know he wasn't without his flaws, but I loved so many of the route trees, concepts, and play calling under Longo. Thought it was a great blend of up-tempo when it needed to be, methodical when it needed to be, but always a threat to score on every possession from anywhere on the field.
 
fuheel said:
Trying to get us actually back on topic: what number of (offensive only) points would be 'acceptable' to average moving forward? I think we can all agree that this offense is quite poor, and it isn't likely to dramatically improve between now and the end of the season. But, scoring 27 against Syracuse was a step in the right direction. Is it unrealistic to hope to score in the 20s for the rest of the year?
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Through 8 games we average 16.3 points per game, last 3 games we avg 20.3.

16.3 is good for #127 out of 136 teams. Averaging 20 a game would put us at #107, so still a pretty low bar!
 
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