Given the news of the week, we now know much of the path that lies before the football team.
Continue to be stout on defense.
Improve to merely average on special teams.
Run the ball with enough consistency that the QB doesn't have to carry the offense.
We have a large enough data set with seven seasons under CMC to know that while the team will find itself in more close games than the average program, the solid defense means they seldom have to put 40 on the board to win. Simply moving the offensive conference scoring average from 20 to 24 points per game would have resulted in a winning season. 27 points would have been smashing in the win column.
Here's hoping the new offensive staff can put more points on the board, and team team has better success in the margins.
With seven (!) coin flips on the schedule, the difference between 8-4 and 4-8 will be really small.
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