Box Score Breakdown - UAB game

[Fayettechill14]

http://www.arkansasfight.com/2014/10/26/7073175/arkansas-vs-uab-box-score-breakdown-in-focus

Offense was pretty much perfectly balanced: 56% success rate rushing, 56% success rate passing in the first half.

[root_hawg]

We need Collins to get out of his sophomore funk and get it back rolling

[WarPig88]

Did I miss the part where anyone thought that the UAB game would be the true measure of this season?

They were way overmatched except in ST's and they dominated that aspect of the game.

Stats from a game like this are meaningless. Merely fluff or fodder for arguments.

[bphi11ips]

How was the havoc rate?

[Fayettechill14]

Did I miss the part where anyone thought that the UAB game would be the true measure of this season?

They were way overmatched except in ST's and they dominated that aspect of the game.

Stats from a game like this are meaningless. Merely fluff or fodder for arguments.

Look dude, you need to get with the program. Bret Bielema said this when he was hired, said it all last year, said it this offseason, and is saying again this year. Our style of play is UGLY. Really ugly football. When done right it's brutally effective, but boy is it UGLY. This has the effect of making most victories give the impression of a flat-out embarrassment. Based on the reactions of fans and media of the other teams, Arkansas has now made SIX of its 8 opponents question their teams after the game. All four wins and two of the losses (Texas A&M, Alabama) made fans wonder why their team looked so bad. Nick Saban was even asked what had gone wrong with his program after an SEC road win. If you're going to come back after every game Bielema wins here and complain that the other team sucked, get ready to complain a bunch, because we're going to embarrass some good teams.

No, UAB was not very good. They are middle of the pack in the C-USA. Will probably make a bowl at 6-6. But no one's claiming they were a measuring stick. Did you not read the conclusion? Basically I said that the biggest takeaway was that the defense got some rest from injuries to Ellis and Toliver. And if you've missed the bus, I write a box score breakdown for EVERY game.

[onebadrubi]

Look dude, you need to get with the program. Bret Bielema said this when he was hired, said it all last year, said it this offseason, and is saying again this year. Our style of play is UGLY. Really ugly football. When done right it's brutally effective, but boy is it UGLY. This has the effect of making most victories give the impression of a flat-out embarrassment. Based on the reactions of fans and media of the other teams, Arkansas has now made SIX of its 8 opponents question their teams after the game. All four wins and two of the losses (Texas A&M, Alabama) made fans wonder why their team looked so bad. Nick Saban was even asked what had gone wrong with his program after an SEC road win. If you're going to come back after every game Bielema wins here and complain that the other team sucked, get ready to complain a bunch, because we're going to embarrass some good teams.

No, UAB was not very good. They are middle of the pack in the C-USA. Will probably make a bowl at 6-6. But no one's claiming they were a measuring stick. Did you not read the conclusion? Basically I said that the biggest takeaway was that the defense got some rest from injuries to Ellis and Toliver. And if you've missed the bus, I write a box score breakdown for EVERY game.

Ever wonder what happens when you give a [CENSORED] a keyboard?  See Warpig... Prime example.  He was possibly one of the ones touting this past week we may not best them. 

[Fayettechill14]

Ever wonder what happens when you give a [CENSORED] a keyboard?  See Warpig... Prime example.  He was possibly one of the ones touting this past week we may not best them.

Yeah he's one of the ones that drives me nuts. His point here (about the measure of the season) is valid, but completely unnecessary. No one claimed this game was the measure of the season. Arkansas dominated as expected and got to rest some key contributors. Hopefully they also got refocused for a difficult stretch run.

[DeltaBoy]

Solid win for the Hogs and hope Brooks is back at LB this Saturday.

[Huckleberry Pig]

Fayettechill, I was at the game and after reading your article last week about running more passing plays out of the shotgun (where BA is very good) as opposed to running them from under center (where BA is very bad) I made it a point to keep track of it.

Seems we did run some out of the shotgun, and they all worked pretty well.  The pass plays from under center were for the most part not successful.  Definitely think we need to run pass plays from the shotgun even more.  Would have liked to see it more on 2nd down like you mentioned last week as it could actually lead to more run plays.  I also thought it would be a good idea to have a man in motion for the jet sweep just to add a wrinkle and keep the defense honest.  just so they don't know that it is for sure going to be a pass.


What'd you think?

[DeltaBoy]

I agree BA is tons better out of the Shotgun.

[hogsanity]

Ever wonder what happens when you give a [CENSORED] a keyboard?  See Warpig... Prime example.  He was possibly one of the ones touting this past week we may not best them. 

warpig = traffic driver

[Fayettechill14]

Fayettechill, I was at the game and after reading your article last week about running more passing plays out of the shotgun (where BA is very good) as opposed to running them from under center (where BA is very bad) I made it a point to keep track of it.

Seems we did run some out of the shotgun, and they all worked pretty well.  The pass plays from under center were for the most part not successful.  Definitely think we need to run pass plays from the shotgun even more.  Would have liked to see it more on 2nd down like you mentioned last week as it could actually lead to more run plays.  I also thought it would be a good idea to have a man in motion for the jet sweep just to add a wrinkle and keep the defense honest.  just so they don't know that it is for sure going to be a pass.


What'd you think?

I agree. I'd love to see some jet sweep from shotgun. And I was happy we made more of an effort to run from shotgun.

I posted the numbers in the article, but here they are in case anyone missed them:

Under Center: 7 of 10 for 107 yards, 1 sack
Shotgun: 6 of 7 for 65 yards, TD

That's first half only, since it looked like we kind of dinked around with the second half playcalling, trying to get certain guys and routes involved rather than run what was working.

So yeah, both the eye test and the stats back Allen as being better from shotgun.

[DeltaBoy]

Thanks for doing all that work Chill!