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Vol. 37, Issue 1-B the last of week – June 30, 2018

MEA Culpa Scoreboard

 

Thanks to “Lite” recipients who keep track of my spelling errors, grammar errors, egregious errors and my advancing age errors. Here is my first scoreboard update from “Memory Lane, or lack of it”.

 

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I called Joe Critchlow Joe Critchfield because I was thinking Crutchfield, as in Tony, the BYU Cougar cornerback out of Pasadena’s Muir High School a couple of decades ago. Here he is then and now.

 

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This was totally a fishing faux pas. The stats should have been for yards per pass attempts (Casting). Yesterday I detailed yards per completion (Catches). Here is the correct conversion.

Season

Starting QB

Yards per Attempt

Season Record

2017

Mangum

10.47

4-9

2016

Hill

10.46

9-4

2015

Mangum

12.64

9-4

2014

Hill, Stewart

11.08, 13.17

8-5

2013

Hill

12.45

8-5

2012

Nelson

11.11

8-5

2011

Heaps, Nelson

5.76, 8.50

10-3

2010

Heaps

6.05

7-6

2009

Hall

8.70

11-2

2008

Hall

8.20

10-3

2007

Hall

7.76

11-2

2006

Beck

9.3

11-2

Fast

Backward

To Random

Seasons

2003

Berry

6.10

4-8

2001

Doman

8.7

12-2

1996

Sarkisian

10.0

14-1

1995

Sarkisian

8.9

7-4

1994

Walsh

8.0

10-3

1993

Walsh

9.4

6-6

1990

Detmer

9.2

10-3

1986

Lindsley

7.8

8-5

1984

Bosco

8.5

13-0

1983

Young

9.1

11-1

1982

Young

8.4

8-4

1980

McMahon

10.3

12-1

1979

Wilson

8.7

11-1

2018 NFL Draft

Top 5 QB Picks

Yards per attempt

Season Record

1st Pick Browns

OU’s Mayfield

11.76

12-2

2nd Pick Jets

USC’s Darnold

8.7

11-3

3rd Pick Bills

Wyo’s Allen

6.61

8-4

4th Pick Cardinals

UCLA’s Rosen

8.24

6-6

5th Pick Ravens

Louisville’s Jackson

8.74

8-5

 

Here’s my take. For BYU to have a much-improved season record this year, The Cougar Quarterback, whoever it is, needs to be in the 8.0 and above yards per attempts range. Taysom Hill produced good records, in the 6.5 ypa area, but that seems skewed because of his prolific rushing talents.

 

BYU’s most recent run of football success was 2006 (Beck): 11-2, 2007 (Hall): 10-3, 2008 (Hall):11-2 and 2009 (Hall 11-2. The Cougars went 43-9 in that 4-year span and the average passing yards per attempt per season was 8.49.

 

When it comes to BYU football this year, 8 seems to be the magic number. Steve Young isn’t making a Cougar comeback, but 8 yards per passing attempt or better needs to if jobs are retained and a fan base soothed.

 

Just for fun, Jeff Grimes is the official offensive coordinator, but his specialty while working at LSU, Virginia Tech, Auburn and Colorado was as a running game coordinator.

 

He and Sitake has hired Aaron Roderick, the former BYU receiver and long-time Utah coach to be the passing game coordinator. Thought it might be interesting to look at Roderick’s record as an offensive coordinator using the same parameters above.

 

 

Season

Quarterback

Yards per Attempts

Season Record

2003 SUU

OC Zimmerman

5.43

4-7

2004 SUU

OC Reher

7.57

6-5

2010 Utah

Co-OC Wynn

7.81

10-2

2015 Utah

Co-OC Wilson

6.67

10-3

2016 Utah

Co-OC Williams

7.07

9-4

 

 

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