Quote Originally Posted by Mjoelner34 View Post
I was at one of their games a few years ago and they were up something like 63-3 in the 4th quarter against UT Martin or somebody like that and I noticed 3 things and each was more shocking than the one before it. 1: Freeze still had a lot of starters in. 2: Up 63-3 in the 4th and Ole Miss was running trick plays. 3: While up 63-3 he put Nkimdeche (the DT not LB) at RB and ran a trick play to him for like a 35 or 40yd TD. Of course the crowd went wild. All I was thinking was "What is going to happen to his draft stock if he blows out a knee on an offensive trick play up 63-3 in the 4th?" Different buch of folks up there.
I want to score 70+ on FCS teams in my perfect world but I do have boundaries. All of the stuff you mentioned would be outside of my boundaries. I don't mind playing starters into the third quarter if we're up comfortably as long as we rotate heavily. But by the fourth quarter if we were up 63-3 going into the 4th there is zero reason for the starters to be in. That's time to build depth and let some walk-ons that have been with the program for a few years get some reps. I'm fine running trick plays on FCS teams- but do them early in the first quarter. There is zero reason to do that in the fourth quarter.

The way I would do it would be to come out and attack vertically, run a few trick plays like a flea flicker and ideally get 21-28. Our receivers should be able to burn most FCS DB's and our line should be able to pick up pressure and stuff like that. Second quarter I would be a little more conventional and just try to focus on execution. Ideally that would get us another 14-21 points so we would be looking at 35-49 points at the half. Third quarter I would focus on running the ball and rotating guys in and hopefully that would yield another 14-21 points. That should get us to 49-70 for the game at that point. Fourth quarter is depth building time.

Defense I would come out and blitz them back to directional Idaho and try to intimidate and dominate them early but then back off in the second half.