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Call us Dorothy... - stupac2 - 11-04-2017

'cuz there's no place like home. Here are our yards per carry above opponents' averages, home vs away.


(Opponents' averages not adjusted for what we gained against them, I would do that but I don't have excel here, google docs is terrible, and it probably won't make a big difference. Oh, and I counted Rice as a home game since there was almost certainly no crowd advantage for them, and that's what I suspect our issue is.)

In case you're curious, our worst games are ORST, WSU, Utah, and USC, in that order. Oddly our second-best game was SDSU, confirming the CTCard theory of offense that the problem in that game was not running enough.

So if you want to be optimistic about the next few games, just think about them all being at home.

(And yes, I know I used this joke before, but I like it.)

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Re: Call us Dorothy... - ChicagoCard - 11-05-2017

It's funny how many CF talking heads, Bruce Feldman included, talk of Stanford having essentially no home field advantage, the idea being there is no Autzen/Husky-Stadium-like atmosphere to rattle the opposing team's chain. But it seems especially without an established QB and with a young OL, Stanford is much more formidable at home, especially offensively.

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Re: Call us Dorothy... - JohnR34231 - 11-05-2017

While it's not terribly surprising, because teams play better at home, it's interesting how all the top teams in the conference (Washington, U$C, Wazzu, and Stanford if you want to include us) are undefeated at home, with all their losses coming on the road.
Also interesting is that Wazzu is 8-2, but their two road losses have come by a total of 55 points (to decent but hardly great teams).

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Re: Call us Dorothy... - martyup - 11-06-2017

Our road performances are so bad that it might warrant a thorough examination of the road trip process.  Something is not working.  It could be the travel schedule, sleep times, the practice times, the food, etc.  Maybe the players have too much free time on the road trip and lose focus.  Maybe they stay up late the night before the game talking to their teammates or texting.  Something is amiss. 

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Re: Call us Dorothy... - Spiny_Norman - 11-06-2017

This year stands out in the Shaw era for the poor road performance.  Last year for example Stanford was 5-1 on opponent's home fields.

2017 - 2-3 (one win was nearly a loss)
2016 - 5-1
2015 - 4-1
2014 - 3-3
2013 - 4-2
2012 - 4-2
2011 - 5-0

Edited to correct 2017.  Thx, TreesandBirds.

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Re: Call us Dorothy... - martyup - 11-06-2017

(11-06-2017, 10:46 AM)Spiny_Norman link Wrote:This year stands out in the Shaw era for the poor road performance.  Last year for example Stanford was 5-1 on opponent's home fields.

2017 - 1-3 (and that one win was nearly a loss)
2016 - 5-1
2015 - 4-1
2014 - 3-3
2013 - 4-2
2012 - 4-2
2011 - 5-0

Interesting.  Perhaps there is something about this year's team that is causing such poor performance on the road, which seems too divergent from home game performance. 

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Re: Call us Dorothy... - stupac2 - 11-06-2017

(11-06-2017, 10:55 AM)martyup link Wrote:[quote author=Spiny_Norman link=topic=17906.msg210949#msg210949 date=1509990407]
This year stands out in the Shaw era for the poor road performance.  Last year for example Stanford was 5-1 on opponent's home fields.

2017 - 1-3 (and that one win was nearly a loss)
2016 - 5-1
2015 - 4-1
2014 - 3-3
2013 - 4-2
2012 - 4-2
2011 - 5-0

Interesting.  Perhaps there is something about this year's team that is causing such poor performance on the road, which seems too divergent from home game performance.
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The offense is extremely young. Most positions on the offense, especially the line, get better with experience. I think this is like 90% of problems on the road.

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Re: Call us Dorothy... - martyup - 11-06-2017

It clearly could just be their youth.  Not many players in HS get to play in games that require overnight travel.  I recall some pretty juvenile behavior when my HS FFA judging teams traveled to the state finals in Fresno.

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Re: Call us Dorothy... - TreesAndBirds - 11-06-2017

We have two ( not one)  away victories ( Utah, OSU), and of course neutral field Rice.

The teams we have lost to on the road are probably the best teams we have played this year ( not sure exactly where to slot SDSU).

The three upcoming games will tell us much more about how good we are at home, or whether the results to date have been partly due to who we have played.

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