Scrimmage "Report"

I put report in quotes because I didn't see it, so this is sort of a meta-report of scrimmage information, based on Coach's short video segment at the end of the practice and then also a couple media reports.

Coach had a couple little nuggets in his talk.

The first was that we were working our younger QBs in the "QB Run game," something I was unaware we had.  (Babers and to some extent Jinks have both not wanted QBs running the ball).

The Blade said this:

Both backups ran the quarterback-option well, with Loy gaining 12 yards on three carries and Veasley adding 47 yards on seven attempts.

That's interesting to me, for two reasons.  First, BG needs to be able to convert in short-yardage situations.  This is interesting.  For all games, BG was 9th in the MAC in 3rd down conversions and for MAC games BG was third.  As you know, my view is that the MAC-only stats are more reliable.  Anyway, the option is interesting because it is difficult to prepare for and because I don't know how confident we are at just powering the ball forward with our line and we need third down conversions.

The second issue was penalties.  Thomas Schmeltzer of the Sentinel-Tribune tweeted that Jinks asked the refs to call everything.  Penalties were a big problem for BG, which had the most penalties and most penalty yards during MAC play last year. Coach told the Blade that we had 8 TDs called back by penalty last year, something Jinks called "crazy."  And he noted, correctly, that if we don't fix it, the results next year will be the same.

The other interesting thing coach said it was good to get outside and "watch these guys kick."  As you know, PK became an unexpected issue due to the botched monitoring of Jake Suder's eligibility.  The current roster has only one PK on it, and that would be Nate Needham, who has yet to prove himself anywhere at the college level.  The Blade tells us he made kicks from 32 and 36 and missed a 44-yarder.  There's always the possibility of bringing in some walk-ons or grad transfers for some competition in the Fall.

The punter is also new, but has a little more of a track record.

The defense was putting in the new schemes.  Overall, it didn't sound like either side dominated this scrimmage and it was relatively rough.  The Spring Game is next Saturday.