As I stated, scoring offenses...
Red zone is just 1 more Chaney concern. Yards are fine, but only points are counted for a victory.
Would also love some of those offenses to be of the past decade. His offenses have dropped significantly from his Tiller Purdue days to more recently.
1) Well sure if you have Bama's defense of old (not quite this season). 9 ppg, 11 ppg, 12 ppg. You are making an argument based on team success when we are talking offensive success.
2) Ahh yes, the old "Playing in the SEC lowers your average" argument. Do you have proof of that?
Here's the data we do have:
PPG average by conference
Big 12 32.2
SEC 31.9
ACC 30.6
Pac-12 28.5
B1G 28.5
Looks like teams are scoring just fine.
3) But you're also ignoring the fact that Chaney has coached 10/19 years OUTSIDE THE SEC.
4) You are right on the RZ offense. That is a stupid, unfounded argument by the Pups and I should have looked into it first. Their offensive RZ ranking nationally was like 13th. Their defense was in the 100s!
Picking on total offense and 1000 yard rushers to the point of saying anyone referencing them needs a stat degree, but your go to is scoring, and scoring alone?
Assuming you're a stats expert, you can probably figure out that even scoring is a function of more than just quality of your offense. It's directly related to the strength of schedule, the tempo you play at, quality of your defense, field possession, and a variety of other factors. Granted it's not quite as skewed as total offense would be, but it's still not the end all, be all.
ESPN has a "offensive efficiency" metric that does a pretty solid job breaking down how good an offense actually is while considering all of these factors. Since you're interested in how he's done "recently"...
Last seven years, his offense has ranked in the top 25 (23 actually) four times, including finishing 5th last year, and 3rd this year. Also, the worst he has ever finished going back to the first year available in ESPN (2005) was 69th, which is basically slightly below average.
Add in the fact that he's experienced in the SEC, he's been paired with another defensive-minded HC (and did extremely well at UGA...), and will allow Pruitt to focus on the defensive side of the ball, and this is a fantastic hire. But I'm sure you'll have more fun wallowing around anyway, so have fun.