This is part one of a two-part series looking at how the Gulf Coast Offense worked so effectively in 2015-2016 and what went wrong for the USF offense in 2017.
When Willie Taggart first came to the University of South Florida, he wanted to establish a power running offense using multiple tight ends, full backs, and plenty of I-Formations. After two years, he scrapped the traditional power-I offense for one that used his athletes in the best possible way.
In 2014, USF was ranked 119th in points per game. Four games into 2015 and his impending firing if he lost against Syracuse, Taggart switched his style of offense, and it was ranked 40th in points per game.