12/8/2023 0 Comments Rt podcast stuck at home![]() Hines, #88 WR Perry, and #83 WR Pupunu, though they don’t have nearly the production Ashlock does - plus inside receiver #23 WR Nishigaya who’s also a great blocker. They’re filled out their WR corps with three other tall, rangy receivers - #84 WR C. Their most targeted players are #86 WR Ashlock, who’s the real deep threat to burn DBs, and #7 WR McBride, who’s used more as a possession receiver on comebacks and intermediate routes but can go deep. Statistically, by far the best weapon the Bows’ have is their explosive passing offense – in FBS play outside of garbage time, 16.3% of their passes gain 15+ yards, and they’re averaging 8.3 adjusted YPA. I think returning starter from last year #13 QB Schager has some real arm strength to hit the deep ball and the staff doesn’t shy away from appropriately bold decision-making, and I expect them to tear up quite a few Mountain West defenses now that Chang has established a better team culture than the previous staff. Hawai’i finished ranked the 120 th offense in F+ advanced statistics last year, but are up to 98 th right now, and I would anticipate them finishing the season higher than that once they get out of non-conference play. There have been no major staff or schematic changes so far in 2023. More than anything else, this offense reminds me of Nick Rolovich’s during his time at Wazzu – himself also a former Nevada assistant who landed at Hawai’i and paid lip service to the Run & Shoot while really just running Chris Ault’s pistol offense (though mostly out of the shotgun) with Air Raid patterns and an occasional choice route. There are no motions, rollouts, or overloads, and excepting the very basic elements that have disseminated to all modern spread offenses around the country like four-verts and some option routes, the passing patterns are difficult to identify as anything other than the Air Raid concepts that are increasingly widespread. When I watched the Bows’ 2022 film, hearing commentators repeatedly describe the offense as a return to the Run & Shoot, I was chagrined to see that none of the recognizable staples of Mouse Davis’ record-setting offense have persisted. Chang hired OC Shoemaker from Eastern Washington, who was part of an RPO version of the Air Raid with the Eagles. Chang broke records as a quarterback in the Run & Shoot offense with the Rainbow Warriors under June Jones, himself a former QB at Oregon, Hawai’i, and Portland State.įor the five years prior to rejoining his alma mater, Chang coached receivers at Nevada under HC Jay Norvell and OC Matt Mumme (son of offensive scheme icon Hal) in the Wolfpack’s pistol version of the Air Raid. ![]() Thanks to tristanh314 for the preliminary charting work on the Stanford-Hawai’i game.Īfter receiving the early resignation of Todd Graham and nearly his entire staff at the end of the 2021 season (including OL Coach Terry, now at Oregon, though longtime LB coach Yoro was retained and promoted to DC), Hawai’i put program legend Head Coach Chang in charge of revitalizing the team in 2022. It was a close contest – Albany was driving into the redzone late in the 4 th quarter down four points, only to give up a long fumble return that set up Hawai’i with a short field for a touchdown that would put the game away – but per standard practice statistics from that game are excluded from this article, except as specifically noted. ![]() I have the play-by-play from the school’s records checked against local and national media, but still can’t be certain it’s completely correct without film review. Last week’s game was evidently aired only on local pay-per-view, and acquiring the tape, or even highlights, has proven impossible. Nota bene: Hawai’i has played two FBS games in week 0 at Vanderbilt and Week 1 vs Stanford which have been charted for this preview, plus an FCS game hosting Albany week 2.
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