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Well many of us early and throughout year lamented 4 things. Then a plus one. Soo.. merits a review

Penalties. Improved …we were running at 8/9 penalties a game early in year. Just horrible. By year end At ETSU and Mercer it was 4 penalties and 3. Much better. Strong improvement here.

TURNOVERS. Hmm. We do seem to finally create some. Vs CSU it was negative 4. Being 4 for us. None for them. Lately we create some and get some. 3 vs ETSU. 4 today. But we still give it away too much on our side. Must improve at eliminating our mistakes. Listened to 97.7 some and they were big in this as offseason emphasis

ABILITY TO RUN. we never really found a run game. Just strange for me - and tough - as a Furman fan. I love tough Furman running. And the resulting play action! A glimpse of promise with Gavin Hall at times. But even today (I know Mercer is probably best front 7 in conference ) we ran 27 times for 73 yards. A 2.7 yard average. Compare that to Mercer. They went 48 rushes for 213. 4.8 per carry. That’s a playoff stat right there

Ability to stop the run. Never really got this. Last three opponents - including a weak offense Wofford team - all ran for more than 4 yards per carry throughout the game.

Snaps improved. How could they not. That’s good.

Gotta stop giving the ball away and start winning more LOS battles. Just can’t win long term getting 1.8 yards per carry and allowing 4.7 yards per carry

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Passing game was good. Interesting theme. In all of our last three games we did well and passed for over 200 yards but just got whipped in the run game.

FU failed to get to 1,000 yds rushing on the season for the first time ever as a scholarship program. Final tally was 990 so almost. Fu failed to have a single game where they rushed for 200 yds. VMI game was close at 195. Used to 200 yds was a low water mark for a FU team. 5 of 7 SoCon games FU rushed for under 75 yds. 3 under 55 yds. FU had ONE run all year that went for 20 or more yards, Hall’s 46 yarder against VMI.

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Sat Nov 23, 2024 9:12 pm

FU failed to get to 1,000 yds rushing on the season for the first time ever as a scholarship program. Final tally was 990 so almost. Fu failed to have a single where they rushed for 200 yds. VMI was close at 195. Used to 200 yds was a low water mark for a FU team. 5 of 7 SoCon games FU rushed for under 75 yds. 3 under 55 yds.
had ONE run all year that went for 20 or more yards, Hall’s 46 yarder against VMI.

Just. WOW. That’s HORRIBLE