[gatortalk] Coach Boom Ball exposed again

Guy pretty much nails it IMO.

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2013/what-happened-saturday-week-2/

Coach Boom Ball Exposed, Again

What happened to the University of Florida on Saturday in Miami could be called a philosophical loss. Miami didn’t do much, but that’s the problem with Will Muschamp’s style of football – it doesn’t take much to lose.

Last season we watched Florida win ugly… a lot. The ugly wins against good teams like Texas A&M, LSU and Florida State made it easier to overlook the ugly wins against terrible teams like Bowling Green, Louisiana-Lafayette, and Missouri. The wins allowed us to give the Gators a pass for their miserable offensive performance against Georgia and their humiliating bowl loss against Louisville. Saturday’s loss to Miami exposed the Florida Gators for what they really are: A Great Defense with a terrible offense and questionable coaching.

Want to beat Florida? Take some chances. Run some trick plays. Go for it on fourth down. Air it out, a lot. They might not always work out, but even if they don’t, Florida doesn’t have the offense to make you pay consistently.

That is what Miami did on Saturday. They executed their choreographed first drive and then, later in the quarter, took a chance on the deep ball and connected. 14 first quarter points. That’s it. That was all The U needed to beat Florida. Sure the Gators might also get to 14, but their offense is so lame and unimaginative and their execution of said plays will be so poor that they will inadvertently give up seven points in their efforts to score 14.

Miami’s plan was to make Quarterback Jeff Driskel beat them. They took away the run and decided to take their chances with Driskel; They chose wisely. Driskel rewarded the Hurricanes with two redzone interceptions, a fumble and a terrible effort on fourth and short. Often he had plays in which he had more time than any quarterback should ever conceivably have and produced nothing. The big question mark coming into this season was, “Could Jeff Driskel take the next step and become the quarterback he was expected to be as the #1 quarterback recruit in the country?” The answer is no. He did not take that step. He will never be that guy.

Driskel doesn’t get all the blame or even a majority of the blame for this loss. That falls on Head Coach Will Muschamp. He broke from protocol. Florida failed on a baffling first quarter two-point conversion and the team never recovered. It sounds insane that one point in the first quarter could determine the game but it did for the Gators. Muschamp can’t have it both ways. He can’t be the team that clearly despises offense, running the kind of offense that would be described as cripplingly conservative in 1980, and also be the team that goes for two in the first quarter and passes on an easy field goal inside the twenty. The irony is: had Muschamp stuck with his system of being the most miserably boring offense in the history of football, the Gators would have won the game. They would have turned turnovers into field goals and the defense would have held on. They would have forced Miami’s average QB to make the kind of plays that often turn into turnovers. Will Muschamp didn’t believe in his own system, which as we’ve now seen too many times, leaves zero room for error, be it offensive, defensive or coaching errors.