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Sep 16, 2024
2:13:53pm

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

A different perspective

Now maybe you don't agree with BYU's 4th down philosophy and how that influences 3rd play calling, but that appears to be the horse they've hitched themselves to.

BYU has gone for it on 4th down in 10 of the 28 times this season we didn't convert 3rd down. BYU has converted 4th down 8 out of 10 times.

So of the 39 times we've reached 3rd down this year, BYU picked up a first down 19 times (48.7%)

When measuring everyone else the same…
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Indy Coug

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BYU's 3rd down conversion % so far: Guess where we are out of 133 teams...

HRCougar

Sep 16, 2:11pm

Answer:

HRCougar

Sep 16, 2:12pm

A different perspective

Indy Coug

Sep 16, 2:13pm

RE: A different perspective

HRCougar

Sep 16, 2:16pm

A big contributor to long 3rd downs

Indy Coug

Sep 16, 2:17pm

The biggest contributor BY FAR is ARod's propensity to run up the gut on 2nd and

HRCougar

Sep 16, 2:19pm

Doesn't that kind of gloss over the fact that we were 2nd and 10 to begin with?

Indy Coug

Sep 16, 2:21pm

No, I think they are both problems.

HRCougar

Sep 16, 2:27pm

Why don’t we just treat 3rd down like it’s 4th down? Duuuuh

VegasCoug

Sep 16, 2:28pm

Maybe that’s a suboptimal strategy if you know you’re going for it on 4th

Indy Coug

Sep 16, 2:49pm

Indy doesn't get it. You just then treat 2nd down as if it were 3rd

Czar-castic

Sep 16, 3:52pm

Thanks, Mr. Canadian

Indy Coug

Sep 16, 7:27pm

that's not a philosophy, that's an excuse

Czar-castic

Sep 16, 3:51pm

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