Bronco's pretty proud of his Fall camp routine. It's a finely tuned, modular system that rotates players through conditioning, position mastery, offensive/defensive scheme and game prep drills. He's confident/cocky that his system gets the balance right. History suggests he's tuned the system just about perfectly for the defense but often wrong for the offense. Last year, he was particularly blind about the offense's readiness. His post-camp comments that they'd accomplished what they needed to get done and that, in his opinion, Fall camp was too long, seemed embarrassingly myopic when they took the field in Virginia. To nobody's surprise (except apparently Bronco) it took the team--led by a Sophomore QB--several games to get used to the new coaching staff, scheme and GFGH tempo.

Bronco and Anae are smart, motivated guys with bizarre communication styles; I assume they weren't communicating effectively last year. Somehow Bronco didn't know his Fall camp method was wasn't tuned right for the offense (and maybe hasn't been for many years) and didn't know the offense wasn't ready to play Virginia. Somehow Bronco and Anae failed to communicate properly in their Summer-time planning or during Fall camp analysis.

Big question: Have they fixed it this year?