01-02-2026, 02:30 AM
I mean, if it is just frustration that we aren’t as good as we are accustomed (or wish to be), I am right there with you guys.
But beyond that, there are a lot of assumptions intrinsic in your post that we simply don’t know. None of us go to practice, so we don’t know what they are working on. What we see is an offense that isn’t working as well as we would like, and assume that the coaches aren’t making adjustments, but to my knowledge nobody here has gone through and diagrammed every play and shown that our mix of plays has not changed over time or doesn’t change over the course of a game. More likely than not, it actually has, but most of us are not sophisticated enough to notice it, and that type of large scale change that people would notice is not actually realistic to implement mid-season.
Moreover, because our team is fairly young, and freshmen are responsible for about 30% of available minutes, I would guess that Kate Paye is probably spending more time than would be typical on fundamentals: offensive and defensive positioning, boxing out, etc. and getting the team to execute the plays that we do have in our arsenal more effectively, rather than making wholesale changes to the way we run our offense.
Lastly, I want to emphasize that even as our offense doesn’t seem to have improved much since last year, our defense most certainly has, going from the 99th adjusted defensive efficiency (I’m using Bart Torvik’s numbers) to the 22nd best DE, which makes this team a substantially better team than last year’s. (I’m not cherry picking, using Massey’s numbers we went we’ve improved from #49 to #16 on defense). Overall, we’ve gone from #41 (Massey)/53 (Torvik) to #30 (Massey)/36 (Torvik).
I wish we would improve more, faster, as I’m sure we all do. I just think it is a bit early to conclude that Paye is the problem, and that the team will not continue to improve with her at the helm. To be clear, she may not rise to the challenge, but I don’t think it’s clear that she won’t.
BC
But beyond that, there are a lot of assumptions intrinsic in your post that we simply don’t know. None of us go to practice, so we don’t know what they are working on. What we see is an offense that isn’t working as well as we would like, and assume that the coaches aren’t making adjustments, but to my knowledge nobody here has gone through and diagrammed every play and shown that our mix of plays has not changed over time or doesn’t change over the course of a game. More likely than not, it actually has, but most of us are not sophisticated enough to notice it, and that type of large scale change that people would notice is not actually realistic to implement mid-season.
Moreover, because our team is fairly young, and freshmen are responsible for about 30% of available minutes, I would guess that Kate Paye is probably spending more time than would be typical on fundamentals: offensive and defensive positioning, boxing out, etc. and getting the team to execute the plays that we do have in our arsenal more effectively, rather than making wholesale changes to the way we run our offense.
Lastly, I want to emphasize that even as our offense doesn’t seem to have improved much since last year, our defense most certainly has, going from the 99th adjusted defensive efficiency (I’m using Bart Torvik’s numbers) to the 22nd best DE, which makes this team a substantially better team than last year’s. (I’m not cherry picking, using Massey’s numbers we went we’ve improved from #49 to #16 on defense). Overall, we’ve gone from #41 (Massey)/53 (Torvik) to #30 (Massey)/36 (Torvik).
I wish we would improve more, faster, as I’m sure we all do. I just think it is a bit early to conclude that Paye is the problem, and that the team will not continue to improve with her at the helm. To be clear, she may not rise to the challenge, but I don’t think it’s clear that she won’t.
BC