UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway

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Enigma94 said:
Mack sucked just as bad as BB, he just had Sam and Drake to slightly improve his results. If he had Gio at QB I’m not sure we would have won any games under Mack. And he has an ego too, guy thought he was doing a good job and was upset he wasn’t allowed to stay longer. None of that excuses the team’s performance under BB, he sucks too.
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That’s a good point you bring up. I do think if this team had either Sam or Drake, we’d be pretty happy about how this season is going.
 
CFordUNC said:
It’s also a big reason why I am extremely skeptical that next year is going to magically be much better offensively- it’s because our offensive problems run much, much more fundamentally deep than simply lacking in P4 talent at the QB position. Our problems are almost entirely schematic and philosophical, and that’s much, much harder for a 73 year old head coach to change.
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I cringe every time anyone discusses the idea of how things might be with Belichick “next year.” But with all the P4 head coach openings next year it would be a bad time for UNC to be shopping for a new coaching staff. This ridiculous hire by the politicians running UNC is the gift that keeps on giving.
 
Posted this in the college football thread, but felt it is relevant here. James Madison, North Texas, Tulane and Houston are all in the top 25. I don't think they are really one of the top 25 teams in the country, though. Just the best teams based on who they actually play in their conference. Still, there is no reason they should have better players, better coaches, and more money to spend on football and be better than UNC.
 






I may be wrong but I think barstool and Dave Portnoy were big Bill Belichick fans, so if we’ve lost them…
 
CFordUNC said:
I’ll take a stab at the schematic discussion. I think that our offensive philosophy makes the one that Butch Davis and John Shoop had 15 years ago look modern. At least back then ball control offenses were still a thing at the collegiate level. They aren’t and haven’t been in well over a decade. Even Nick Saban figured that out a long time ago and adjusted.

Our problem is not even that we aren’t necessarily as talented as we need to be at the quarterback position. It’s that we don’t even remotely try to help our quarterback do anything- literally anything- that he can do well. We don’t try designed QB runs. We rarely roll him out, and when we do, we have him roll out right as a left handed quarterback. We throw screen after screen after screen. We do nothing to scheme receivers open. We do nothing to incorporate different formations to try to scheme matchup advantages. We do nothing creative, we call the same place in the same down and distance scenarios over and over, we are completely predictable. Any defensive coordinator knows exactly what we are going to run. We are completely unimaginative. We are extremely poor managers of the clock and our timeouts. We punt the ball and kick field goals in situations where analytics routinely say we should go for it.

Belichick wants to win college football games in 2025 the same exact way that he won professional football games in 1985 or 1995: with stout defense, clean special teams play, and a highly risk averse offense that huddles every play, does not utilize tempo, and believes that field goals and field position are enough to win football games week in and week out.

I also can absolutely positively not be convinced in any circumstance that Max Johnson or either one of the two freshman are apparently so bad that they are not worth even giving a try. There is no humanly way that is possible. This is 100% pigheaded stubbornness on the part of the head coach. It’s also a big reason why I am extremely skeptical that next year is going to magically be much better offensively- it’s because our offensive problems run much, much more fundamentally deep than simply lacking in P4 talent at the QB position. Our problems are almost entirely schematic and philosophical, and that’s much, much harder for a 73 year old head coach to change.
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I do wonder if Gio is still banged up from his accident, and if that has been affecting how much he runs and how many designed runs for him are called. He's been moving more last week and this week, up until he slid into the bench yesterday. It could be that they simply can't really call anything for him because he's not an effective runner right now. He does look slow to me.

I'm in the camp of letting the freshmen play. Let's see what they can do. At least, if they suck, we'll stop ragging on them for playing Gio. I don't think Max is better than Gio. He takes longer to process than Gio, or at least he was when he was playing a few weeks ago.

I'll hold out declaring that BB wants to run such a ineffective/old school offense until after we get some talent in. Who knows what the offense would look like if they had the line to run-block and also pass-block, along with a QB that is better than Gio. Maybe the coaches feel like their best chance to win is to not take any chances at all on offense. I don't know. I do know, next year should be like HD this year - no excuses, win or leave/fired.
 
Don't we have a much tougher schedule next year than this year? I mean, for the most part our schedule this year it wasn't as if we were playing murderer's row, and in teams like Syracuse and Stanford we played what may be two of the worst teams in all of P4 football this year. <sigh>
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Don't we have a much tougher schedule next year than this year? I mean, for the most part our schedule this year it wasn't as if we were playing murderer's row, and in teams like Syracuse and Stanford we played what may be two of the worst teams in all of P4 football this year. <sigh>
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Yep. Next year is TCU, Notre Dame, Clemson, Louisville, Miami, Virginia, Pitt, Duke, Virginia, and NC State.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Don't we have a much tougher schedule next year than this year? I mean, for the most part our schedule this year it wasn't as if we were playing murderer's row, and in teams like Syracuse and Stanford we played what may be two of the worst teams in all of P4 football this year. <sigh>
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Apex high school has a tougher schedule than we do this year. They would also have a better record against that schedule.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Don't we have a much tougher schedule next year than this year? I mean, for the most part our schedule this year it wasn't as if we were playing murderer's row, and in teams like Syracuse and Stanford we played what may be two of the worst teams in all of P4 football this year. <sigh>
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I read somewhere our strength of schedule this year is the lowest it has ever been by a long shot.
 
I have been a member of the Rams Club for over 35 years. Next year l will call them and ask if I can restrict my future Rams Club contributions to the women's field hockey, soccer, and lacrosse programs. At least they win national championships. If they say I cannot restrict my contributions, then I will end my Rams Club membership.

I do not want one more dollar of my future Rams Club contributions to go to our men's BB or FB programs.
 
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