In Noah Fant's interview on B1G Network, he referred to the goal of 45 points a game for the offense. It didn't sound like a number that he pulled out of thin air, but possibly one that has been talked about within the offense meetings. I don't recall ever hearing this type of talk before. Is this possibly something that Brian Ferentz has brought to the program? If so, I have a few thoughts.
This is very encouraging.
I know the team reads books every year with different ideas regarding teamwork, motivation, and self-improvement. The first step to achieving a goal is to vocalize it or make it known, write it down. This means that it is a focus of the offense.
Rather than just playing ball control football and winning or losing by one score, this tells me that they are going to put the pedal down when they get a chance and build a nice cushion, before playing grind it out football. And step on some throats when necessary, allowing me to breath a little easier against some of the lesser opponents.
In order to get to 45 points, you have to be more aggressive than the Ferentz-ball we are all used to. I think this tells us that Brian might be chipping away at his old man, and getting him to open up the playbook a little more. I feel we have been on the up swing for a few years as far as talent on offense. We have some nice weapons this year, I think that we are going to use them.
If we can put a typical Hawkeye defense out there this year and even if we don't hit 45 a game, but increase our average by 3-7 points per game, we probably win 1-2 more games this year vs. last.
Now if this 45 point this has been around the whole time, please disregard everything above, we're screwed.
Go Hawks!!!
This is very encouraging.
I know the team reads books every year with different ideas regarding teamwork, motivation, and self-improvement. The first step to achieving a goal is to vocalize it or make it known, write it down. This means that it is a focus of the offense.
Rather than just playing ball control football and winning or losing by one score, this tells me that they are going to put the pedal down when they get a chance and build a nice cushion, before playing grind it out football. And step on some throats when necessary, allowing me to breath a little easier against some of the lesser opponents.
In order to get to 45 points, you have to be more aggressive than the Ferentz-ball we are all used to. I think this tells us that Brian might be chipping away at his old man, and getting him to open up the playbook a little more. I feel we have been on the up swing for a few years as far as talent on offense. We have some nice weapons this year, I think that we are going to use them.
If we can put a typical Hawkeye defense out there this year and even if we don't hit 45 a game, but increase our average by 3-7 points per game, we probably win 1-2 more games this year vs. last.
Now if this 45 point this has been around the whole time, please disregard everything above, we're screwed.
Go Hawks!!!
