Offensive Tempo in 2013

[chicago51]

What kind of tempo will do people seeing the offense have next year. Will BK go with fast pace again or he is he committed to let the clock run and protect the defense mentality for the forseable future?

[Luckylucci]

IMO, its going to be what the game or opponent calls for. If its a team that he feels like we can come out and be aggressive on then he'll probably speed it up which we saw at times this year. And as the game dictates he'll probably slow it down and eat clock. I don't think BK gives two shits if we play fast and score 50 or we play slow and score 20 as long as we win. I do think Everett's maturation will give BK the opportunity to do different things and one of those is to play fast. Call it and haul it is the term he likes to use.

[Emcee77]

Originally Posted by Luckylucci

IMO, its going to be what the game or opponent calls for. If its a team that he feels like we can come out and be aggressive on then he'll probably speed it up which we saw at times this year. And as the game dictates he'll probably slow it down and eat clock. I don't think BK gives two shits if we play fast and score 50 or we play slow and score 20 as long as we win. I do think Everett's maturation will give BK the opportunity to do different things and one of those is to play fast. Call it and haul it is the term he likes to use.

The bolded, yes. We'll start to play faster and BK will take more risks in his play-calling as Everett matures, but BK's shown this year that he'll tailor his offense to the personnel and the game situation (things really opened up when we were behind against Pitt).

[Whiskeyjack]

Originally Posted by chicago51

What kind of tempo will do people seeing the offense have next year. Will BK go with fast pace again or he is he committed to let the clock run and protect the defense mentality for the forseable future?

I don't think BK wants to play at warp speed all the time, because it doesn't fit the team's current identity: a low risk, ball control offense, which complements our smothering defense perfectly. The up-tempo pass-first spread BK ran at Cinci puts a lot of stress on the defense, and it's not necessary to take the risks inherent in that scheme when you can simply run over your opponents.

I do think we'll see more calculated hurry-ups, though. Chip Kelly is a master at doing this: when the defense is fresh and lines up quickly, Oregon slows down and tries to get a good pre-snap read. When the defense is tired and dying for a substitution, they go warp speed (and almost always score). I could definitely see BK doing that as Golson gets more comfortable.

[chicago51]

I just hope the premium is still going to be on defense. While team's like Oregon have solid defense, its usually not good enough to win a game for them when their offense slows.

I guess I can see Kelly and ND being simular to some of Urban Meyer's great Florida teams. I remember that there would be weeks when they would play a team like Kentucky and win like 52-20 playing really fast on offense. The score though would think myself well their defense might suspect giving up 20 to a team like that. Then a week later they would have a big game against say LSU and the shut them down and win like 17-3 in a grind out.

I guess I could see our defensive stats going down slightly but yet ND will be able still lean on the defense to win the big games.

[Dizzyphil]

Originally Posted by Whiskeyjack

I don't think BK wants to play at warp speed all the time, because it doesn't fit the team's current identity: a low risk, ball control offense, which complements our smothering defense perfectly. The up-tempo pass-first spread BK ran at Cinci puts a lot of stress on the defense, and it's not necessary to take the risks inherent in that scheme when you can simply run over your opponents.

I do think we'll see more calculated hurry-ups, though. Chip Kelly is a master at doing this: when the defense is fresh and lines up quickly, Oregon slows down and tries to get a good pre-snap read. When the defense is tired and dying for a substitution, they go warp speed (and almost always score). I could definitely see BK doing that as Golson gets more comfortable.

I couldn't agree more. I think the close games this year were more than BK wanted. I, like you, believe he will pick up the pace a little more if Golson is the starter next year. This will be something in the off-season that will be decided. BK will put the best QB out there and with Kiel, Golson, Hendrix, and possibly Zaire competing, one will just have to see what is going to happen with the speed of the offense.

God what a great problem the Irish have got themselves into.

GO IRISH!!!!!!!!

Diz

[Bluto]

Not sure why he would want to change anything. If the offense was sinply more efficient in the red zone we would have beat every team on our schedule by a pretty comfortable margin with a couple more blowouts, USC being one of them.