re: midseason grades

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Coaching- Offense- F Crappy play call variance and personell coupled with atrocious oline play. PPG is absolute shite as well

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you're being too kind to the OL and offense across the board. 87 points overall and 66 in the 8 SEC games is what 2016 USC has to beat in order to be better than 1999. the good news is 2016 USC is on pace to do so almost doubling up the 1999 Gamecocks at 14.0 ppg to 7.9 ppg

it's been interesting watching the collective defense vs the 2015 edition. through 5 of 8 conference games there's some positive trending overall.

Gamecock defense 2016 v 2015 - SEC games only

Scoring - 21.2 (5) v 30.4 (14)
Total D - 371 (6) v 448 (14)
Rush D - 243 (11) v 224 (13)
Pass D - 128 (2) v 224 (9)
Opp 1st Dn - 20.4 (8) v 23.3 (14)

Red Zone D

Attempts - 19 (5 games) v 37 (8 games)
TD - 10 (5 games) v 25 (8 games)
FG - 5 (5 games) v 6 (8 games)

In conference games, the Gamecock D has returned to comparable numbers in yards allowed and points allowed to some of the better defenses since 2010.

2010 - 378 / 26.1
2011 - 268 / 16.9
2012 - 302 / 21.1
2013 - 346 / 22.3
2014 - 458 / 36.8
2015 - 445 / 30.4
2016 - 371 / 21.2