09-23-2021, 04:18 PM
(09-23-2021, 07:32 AM)82lsju Wrote: if Stanford is paying Tavita Pritchard $900k-$1.5m he's never leaving...
Tavita Pritchard became offensive coordinator in 2018. Here are the FPI efficiency rankings for offense, defense and special teams since then:
2018: offense 15; defense 37, special teams 8
2019: 60, 90, 41
2020 (six games): 18, 96, 16
2021 (three games): 26, 69, 17
So in the Pritchard era, the offense has ranked better than the defense every year, even in that putrid 2019 year when our starting QB and most of our OL were injured. On the other hand, the special teams has ranked better than the offense each year.
I know I'm spitting metaphorically in the wind, but we are spending way too much time bellyaching about the offense, IMO.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
