We are ranked 127th out of 130 schools in yards per play. Our yards per play is almost exactly the same as last year. Allen hired a new coordinator and managed to not improve the offense at all. That is actually hard to stay that bad.
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I think you meant to say "our offense is rank"..😉🙁
Defense too, only three schools in Power 5 conferences have given up more points than IU.
It is too complicated. If you have excellent talent, this offense could probably win a conference championship. But when you come in to lesser talent and expect them to mold themselves to a complicated offense, you’re losing immediately.
Rebuilding is a multi-season process, and we live in a “re-load NOW” environment.
Without $10,000,000 in NIL between NOW and signing day, we will not be better next year either.
The two go hand in hand.
No offense means the defense is on the field WAY to long. Physically/Mentally tough on the defense.
Fix the offense and the D can be better.
Only to a certain extent. The defense would need to give up at least 10 fewer points per game to be mediocre to bad (slightly above poor and putrid). Have you watched the D? I have. Even when fresh they get shredded. Maybe you'd be right if the points scored by opposing teams picked up in the second half you could say depth and a drop off in skill level for players that have to sub more. But IU's D regularly looks like a sieve on the first possession by the opposing team. BTW, have Allen's teams ever given up less than 20 points per game? Points scored against IU:
2022 32 pts/gm
2021 36 pts/gm
2020 20 pts/gm
2019 24 pts/gm
2018 30 pts/gm
2017 25 pts/gm
Allen is far from a defensive genius. In his best years he is mediocre.
The offense achieving mediocrity was a reach for this season anyway after last season's debacle. The failure to really change anything that might have enabled the OL to rise above terrible, putrid, disgusting, embarrassing, etc. etc. guaranteed the O would be bad again. After the Illinois game there should have been improvement, there hasn't really been any. Allen failed to act on the O effectively through the Bell hiring and keeping Hiller around for one more year. If he wasn't going to try to aggressively fix the O then he should have prepared for the D to 1) be on the field a lot which was a guarantee with the Bell speed up offense even if it worked well and 2) created schemes of his own to put more pressure on the QB to maybe, maybe generate a few more TOs. Even fans knew that the ticking time bomb for this team was a poor OL, that it would prevent the O from performing and put too much pressure on the D.
Allen earned this. He created this debacle through his own stupid hiring decision (Bell) and lack of immediately after last season canning Hiller along with Sheridan, finding the absolutely best OC he could regardless of his LEO bonafides or his own personal relationships and letting him hire whoever he wanted for OL coach. In the off season he should have done everything humanly possible to upgrade the talent and coaching of the OL and O. And he didn't.
Have other defenses been on the field as long as IU has this season.
Yup. I remember Tiller taking about 8 years at Purdue and Leach at each of his schools.
If Bell's offense worked well the TOP differential would have improved some, maybe to middle of the pack. The O Bell runs is designed to play fast. It never would have been in the top 1/3 in TOP. This season it has played fast and frequently gone three and out after losing yardage impacting field position as well. Just a poor strategy fit coupled with Allen's defenses which have always given up a lot of yards.
Those are some awful stats, given how bad the offense was last year. Remember they played several games with a 3rd QB who was not ready. IU has had the 1st string QB almost all year this year. The TOP doesn't surprise me.
This hurry up offense is probably the worst idea with the offense talent, at least on the o line, this year. Allen couldn't have found a worse fit. And then to keep Hiller that long.
It's hard to overstate how bad this coach has been the past couple years.
This hurry up offense is probably the worst idea with the offense talent, at least on the o line, this year. Allen couldn't have found a worse fit. And then to keep Hiller that long.
It's hard to overstate how bad this coach has been the past couple years.
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