Wofford - Oct. 9

[apaladin]

Watched the etsu/wc game which came down to explosion plays. Both teams exhibited the ability to have explosion plays that CCH talks about but we rarely see from the dins. I can see WC hurting the Paladins on the option and via the pass. Has FU had an explosion play since the first game? This game could very well depend on a couple of explosion plays from WC.

[The Jackal]

Watched the etsu/wc game which came down to explosion plays. Both teams exhibited the ability to have explosion plays that CCH talks about but we rarely see from the dins. I can see WC hurting the Paladins on the option and via the pass. Has FU had an explosion play since the first game? This game could very well depend on a couple of explosion plays from WC.

Nearly 40% of Wofford's offense Saturday came on two plays - a 47 yard run and a 43 yard pass.

Wofford did not have a scoring drive longer than 3 plays and all of their scoring drives began in plus territory. The Terriers didn't have a drive longer than 5 plays until late in the 3rd Q.

Furman is going to have to tackle better than they did against Mercer. Our offense is going to need to put us in a position where we don't feel like going down 7 is a massive hill to climb.

[FUBeAR]

Woffraud is the beige Team of the SoCon. FUBeAR thinks that’s the color of their helmets also.

Beige - they don’t do anything particularly well, but they aren’t completely awful at anything either.

Just running thru the NCAA FCS Team Stats & Woffraud’s rankings…Looks like they do a good job of avoiding penalties. FUBeAR imagines that Uncle Jerry’s regular drop-in’s or maybe ‘drops’ at the SoCon office in SparkleCity always ensure that positive stat for the Tearyers. Pretty good in KOR’s. Let’s help them get a lot of those reps on Sat., while crushing down their average. Those are the only 2 things that separate them positively. They have a few areas where their results are pretty poor (bold italics - well, they would be, but that function is now ‘acting up’), but, overall, just very beige. If there was a more beige shade of beige called Pedestrian Beige, that would be the perfect primary color for Woffraud Football 2021.

3RD DOWN CONVERSION PCT - 105 - .271
3RD DOWN CONVERSION PCT DEFENSE - 107 - .473
4TH DOWN CONVERSION PCT - 97T - .333 (tied with 6 Teams)

4TH DOWN CONVERSION PCT DEFENSE - 51T - .500 (tied with 18 Teams)
BLOCKED KICKS - 27T - 1 (tied with 35 Teams)
BLOCKED KICKS ALLOWED - 1T - 0 (tied with 62 Teams)
BLOCKED PUNTS - 32T - 0 (31 Teams have blocked 1 or more Punts)
BLOCKED PUNTS ALLOWED - 1T - 0 (tied with 88 Teams)

COMPLETION PERCENTAGE - 96 - .542

DEFENSIVE TDS - 61T - 0 (60 Teams have scored 1 or more Defensive TD’s)

FEWEST PENALTIES - 6T - 15 (tied with 4 other Teams)
FEWEST PENALTIES PER GAME - 2T - 3.75 (tied with 2 other Teams)
FEWEST PENALTY YARDS - 8T - 130 (tied with 1 other Team)
FEWEST PENALTY YARDS PER GAME - 6T - 32.5 (tied with 1 other Team)

FIRST DOWNS DEFENSE - 55T - 83 (tied with 4 other Teams)

FIRST DOWNS OFFENSE - 108 - 57

FUMBLES LOST - 41T - 2 (tied with 28 other Teams)
FUMBLES RECOVERED - 15T - 5 (tied with 8 other Teams)
KICKOFF RETURN DEFENSE - 87 -23.75

KICKOFF RETURNS - 12 - 27.38

NET PUNTING - 70 - 35.41
PASSES HAD INTERCEPTED - 56T - 4 (tied with 22 other Teams)
PASSES INTERCEPTED - 87T - 2 (tied with 21 other Teams)

PASSING OFFENSE - 110 - 135.2

PASSING YARDS ALLOWED - 47 - 209.5
PASSING YARDS PER COMPLETION - 54 - 12.02
PUNT RETURN DEFENSE - 45 - 5.33
PUNT RETURNS - 61T - 6.25 (tied with 1 other Team)
RED ZONE DEFENSE - 57T - .818 (tied with 2 other Teams)
RED ZONE OFFENSE - 84 - .727 (tied with 1 other Team)

RUSHING DEFENSE - 103 - 197.2

RUSHING OFFENSE - 31 - 178.0
SACKS ALLOWED 10T - 1.0/g (tied with 15 other Teams)
SCORING DEFENSE -63 - 27.75
SCORING OFFENSE - 82 - 19.5
TACKLES FOR LOSS ALLOWED - 15 - 4.5 (tied with 2 other Teams)

TEAM PASSING EFFICIENCY - 105 - 103.31

TEAM PASSING EFFICIENCY DEFENSE - 88 - 147.72
TEAM SACKS - 24T - 2.75/g (tied with 4 other Teams)

TEAM TACKLES FOR LOSS - 115T - 3.8 (tied with 1 other Team)
TIME OF POSSESSION - 100 - 27:XX

TOTAL DEFENSE - 80 - 406.8
TOTAL OFFENSE - 86 - 313.2

TURNOVER MARGIN - 53T - .25 (tied with 2 other Teams)
TURNOVERS GAINED - 47T - 7 (tied with 14 other Teams)
TURNOVERS LOST - 45T - 6 (tied with 17 other Teams)
WINNING PERCENTAGE - 88T .250 (tied with 10 other Teams)

[apaladin]

If they are beige, what is Furman? Off-white?

[FUBeAR]

Found it…the top part of this pic is a swatch of “Pedestrian Beige” for an access mat. Absolutely perfect. When I look at this, the single thought that comes into FUBeAR’s brain is … “Woffraud Football 2021”




Pretty close, huh?* This was the pic they used for their ‘Opt Out’ press release in the Spring. Foreshadowing of more beige to come.


*Note - FUBeAR is somewhat color-blind, but he sees what he sees & when he sees Woffraud Football 2021, he sees Pedestrian Beige.

[FurmAlum]

Woffraud's game notes say their colors are gold and black. They need to edit that.

Speaking of colors. Don't want to see no gray pants Saturday.

[apaladin]

Woffraud's game notes say their colors are gold and black. They need to edit that.

Speaking of colors. Don't want to see no gray pants Saturday.

Or jerseys. All white. Wouldn’t mind purple helmets.

[gofurman]

Watched the etsu/wc game which came down to explosion plays. Both teams exhibited the ability to have explosion plays that CCH talks about but we rarely see from the dins. I can see WC hurting the Paladins on the option and via the pass. Has FU had an explosion play since the first game? This game could very well depend on a couple of explosion plays from WC.

Nearly 40% of Wofford's offense Saturday came on two plays - a 47 yard run and a 43 yard pass.

Wofford did not have a scoring drive longer than 3 plays and all of their scoring drives began in plus territory. The Terriers didn't have a drive longer than 5 plays until late in the 3rd Q.

Furman is going to have to tackle better than they did against Mercer. Our offense is going to need to put us in a position where we don't feel like going down 7 is a massive hill to climb.

Yea. Wofford had NO THIRD DOWN conversions. And 21 points! That is wacky. 0-9 on third and fourth down yet 21 points. They were a few explosions as Jackal said. Tackle !!!!

[gman84]

Wofford seams to make a living on crazy game stats.