Discussion in another thread has triggered this question, and it would be interesting to see your responses:

 

What indicator(s) do you think best measure offensive success at the high school level?

 

Style?

Point Production?

First Downs?

Fan excitement level?

Rushing Yardage?

Passing Yardage?

Others measurables?

 

For me, I think point production, regardless of style, is a very effective measure of success.

Discussion in another thread has triggered this question, and it would be interesting to see your responses:

 

What indicator(s) do you think best measure offensive success at the high school level?

 

Style?

Point Production?

First Downs?

Fan excitement level?

Rushing Yardage?

Passing Yardage?

Others measurables?

 

For me, I think point production, regardless of style, is a very effective measure of success.

 

Point production, total yardage. Flipping the field is important.

THE W.

 

Let me ask you would you rather have a kid that gets 4,000 in one season and all he gives a crap about is COmp %, Yardage, etc?

 

Or would you take a kid that wins championships and accepts his role whether he throws for 300 one night or 150 another night. I will take a WINNER over a High Stat man and LOSER any day of the week.

 

Thanks.

Point production AND Ball control.... sometimes you don't need the points, nice to be able to milk a clock, obviously being able to run the football is a huge aspect of that.

Points scored.

 

Is there any other measuring stick needed?

The more points you can score usually translates to how good your offense is.

Doesn't matter if you are a run only offense or a pass only offense or a balanced offense. If you average scoring 60 points a game on offense, you have a pretty good offense no matter how you get the points.

Points and turnover margin.

Pts and total yardage. Wins as well.

Probably goes in this order: Quick Strike capability, PPG, Wins. When I was in college the air raid was taking over the world and everyone was going nuts over it. But every year we had to play Carson Newman, and their Split Back veer. I believe they averaged about 66 points per game, and never used the shotgun. They were and still are the "Oregon" of NCAA D-II as far as scoring a point about every minute. No shotgun, but very exciting!!!

You play the game to win. Whatever it takes for your team to score more points than your opponent is all that matters.

 

Flip the question around, losing 42-7 is just as big of a loss as a 37-34 loss. One loss was low scoring blowout while the other was a high scoring closer finish, but at the end of the day, the offensive production was not enough to win the game.

 

So the true measure of offensive success is beating your opponent. Get the first down when you need to. Get the field goal when you need to. Get the touchdown when you need to. Milk the clock when you need to. Quick strike when you need to. At the end of the game, you were successful offensively if you won the game.

WINS!!! I am a Franklin County guy and I have had enough record setting offense talk to make me throw up......:meh: We set records before but dont have any rings....which tells me our offense must have not been the best in the state. Cause a team sooner or later had enough to stop us more than we did them.....

Point Production, and The ability to play Defense when you have the Ball....This is done by Time Management, and not giving up points to the oppositions Defense.......

Three things...

1. Put more points on the board than your opponent - Defense and Special Teams can help this, but your offense has to score to win games.

2. Take care of the football - Hard to do number 1 if you don't have the football.

3. Convert third downs - Sustaining drives wears the defense down. Also, at this level, with as many kids that play both sides of the ball, the more you have them on their heels, the more they will wear down. This is also an example of hard to do number 1 if you can't sustain drives.

Points per possession. Efficiency against all else. I don't care how fast or slow your tempo, spread or Ipro. How many points does your offense score each time that they get the ball?

You play the game to win. Whatever it takes for your team to score more points than your opponent is all that matters.

 

Flip the question around, losing 42-7 is just as big of a loss as a 37-34 loss. One loss was low scoring blowout while the other was a high scoring closer finish, but at the end of the day, the offensive production was not enough to win the game.

 

So the true measure of offensive success is beating your opponent. Get the first down when you need to. Get the field goal when you need to. Get the touchdown when you need to. Milk the clock when you need to. Quick strike when you need to. At the end of the game, you were successful offensively if you won the game.

 

Agree 100% Blue! Sorry you had to use those scores though!

1. Points scored

2. Total yardage

3. Turnover margin

 

1. Just score as many points as you can, and make sure you have 1 more than your opponent.

2. You need to be able to either have long plays or long drives, either one will work. And it doesn't matter if you get your yards on the ground or through the air.

3. Don't give your opponents the ball.

 

Ultimately, those are the three things that matter. Other things either don't matter or don't matter even close to as much as these three.

 

 

The one thing that doesn't matter at all is time of possession. Doesn't matter to me in the slightest.