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Title: How Lane Kiffin improved Bama's offense Post by: bama57 on October 01, 2014, 09:15:13 AM Monday, Sept. 29, was the one-year anniversary of Lane Kiffin’s infamous firing by USC at the Landmark Aviation Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport.
Twelve months later, Kiffin is in charge of perhaps the best unit in college football and leading it to unprecedented success. Alabama has 2,377 yards this season, breaking a 41-year-old school record for most yards through four games. This, despite starting a quarterback (Blake Sims) who had attempted 39 passes in the first three years of his career. http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation Title: Re: How Lane Kiffin improved Bama's offense Post by: Hannibal Lecter, MD on October 02, 2014, 07:09:15 AM Permanent link to the article: http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/99892/how-lane-kiffin-improved-bamas-offense
Title: Re: How Lane Kiffin improved Bama's offense Post by: roll tide roll on October 02, 2014, 09:55:32 AM Interesting points.
Offense Alabama has run 138 plays without a huddle this season, almost as many as in the previous three seasons combined. Nine of Alabama’s touchdowns have come out of no-huddle plays, more than in the previous two seasons combined. Alabama has run 14.5 more plays per game than it did last season. Cooper Cooper averages 14 targets per game this season. In his first two years, he had one game with more than 11 targets: last season’s Sugar Bowl loss to Oklahoma. Twelve of Cooper’s 25 first-down targets have come on passes within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage, and the other 13 have come on longer throws. The early-down success has helped the Tide on third downs. Alabama leads the FBS in third-down conversion rate (61.8 percent), due in large part to needing an average of 5.1 yards to convert on third down. That’s the second-shortest average distance in the FBS and 1.4 yards less than last season. |