AstroDin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 1:39 pmYou don't really think Furman would show its cards in an open house scrimmage - adding while running lots of young players in and out?apaladin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 1:08 pmHate to disappoint you but the playbook looked exactly the same at the scrimmage Saturday. The stand still handoff 8 yds deep and run for your life. The sideway option where there is no option just a straight pitch for a 5 yd loss. The insane straight sideways pass behind the line of scrimmage if perfectly executed gets 2 yds max etc, etc. Of course I am sure this was all just a smoke screen and we won’t see these come game time. You know the definition of insanity is trying to get different results from doing the same things. That’s Furman’s offense in a nutshell.Furmanoid wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 8:59 amDepth is good but more than 4 is a crowd. I don’t see how they can get enough work at practice to really develop.
I was hoping that out of this cattle call SOMEBODY would be clearly better than what we saw in the spring. So much for that I guess. So I hope the coaches have rewritten the playbook to get optimal performance out of our guy. Like Jesse Jackson used to say,”Don’t worry ‘bout what you don’t have. Use whatcha got!”
Concerning all the quarterbacks on the roster - you forget we run scout teams all year. Many a walkon has earned PT with scout team performance.
And as far as numbers go — have you looked at the depth at running back?
Tailback - 6
Runningback - 6
out of that - at least 7 maybe 8 are on scholarship.
It's year 5 of Clay Hendrix and our fans still show up at the fan fest expecting to see a full fledged scrimmage game.
Under Hendrix, this event has basically always been just a practice with some live reps. A lot of the guys playing aren't going to see much time on Saturdays this fall.
I'm not sure you can watch a practice two weeks before the season starts and draw many conclusions.