Lets talk facts. Keep in mind that all of these are "padded" by a game against American International (who needed a 30yd TD with 1 minute left to beat Assumption College). Out of the 121 FCS Teams...
Luke Allen is 4th in punting yardage
Luke Allen is 2nd in # of punts
We are 119th in 3rd down conversion % (11 converted out of 57 attempts)
We are 118th in Completion % (34 out of 78 attempts)
We are 111th in Penalty Yards (344 yards)
We are 108th in Scoring Offense (11.5 ppg)
Fun fact, 26 players in the FCS (individually) average more yards per game than our entire team does.
The offense is the same one we ran two years ago. But at that time we had an O-Line with an NFL prospect, an NFL prospect RB, a speedster WR, a team that played together for 3-4 years, and were playing against the Big South.
It's really painful to watch. When we know the play calls before they're run, then i'm pretty sure our opponents know too. We've stopped using the pistol formation, refuse to throw to Wagner (or any 3rd WR), and don't throw passes to RB's.
Kinder was a nice experiment, but I have to question how we missed this bad? He doesn't keep his eyes up when he scrambles, has very poor accuracy while he's on the run, he makes bad decisions (redzone int, doesn't throw the ball away, tries to fit it into triple coverage, etc), and he has terrible deep ball accuracy. These things have to be obvious in practice. If he doesn't have those problems in practice, then he can't handle playing in front of a crowd (in High School he didn't have the crowd problem, scoring 4 TD's in the LI final at Lavalle).
Priore did a wonderful job getting us to this point, but if you can't adapt to your personnel (or to your environment), then this type of season will happen. If things continue in this direction, we could get into a situation that could take multiple years to fix.
And to make sure I understand the game-script that Priore wants to use...
Run the ball and play the "field position game". Yes, on third and 7+, you run anyway, yielding a hideous 3rd conversion %, but thats part of the plan...
This lets us gain 255 yards per game on offense.
Use Tye to return punts, making sure that every punt turns into a fair catch, meaning that we get no special teams yards.
Get at least one penalty a drive (90+ penalty yards a game), just to make sure we lose more yards than we gain.
Repeat.
All of that being said, 1-11 is a real possibility. We could sneak by Elon. Hopefully URI gets the schedule date wrong and forgets to show up. That pretty much covers the two games we COULD win.