SWC75
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- Our new, improved defense lasted one week. Dino was unsure in his show is the improvement would last: ““The biggest thing was that we cut back defensively. It was a lot of fun. We ran around with a lot of energy. The rest was taking care of your bother. You never know with that stuff. You have to see if it can be maintained. Coaches are smart.” Scott Satterfield is smart. He’s also got a lot more athletes than Duke did and he knows how to use them. Sometimes a simple defense is not the answer to a complex offense. The Ville wound up with 608 yards, 370 on the ground and 238 in the air and scored 56 points. We just couldn’t keep up.
- But we might have been able to if: (1) a recovered fumble hadn’t been reversed – Louisville scored on the next play; (2) Luke Benson hadn’t dropped a likely touchdown on our subsequent drive; (3) Sean Riley hadn’t muffed a punt – Louisville scored on the next play.; Evan Foster and Antwan Cordy hadn’t battled to see who would make an interception, causing them both to drop the ball – you guessed it Louisville scored, except this time it took four more plays; (4) Taj Harris had dragged a foot on a catch he made on about the 4 yard line. Instead his back foot stayed in the air and he was out of bounds. DeVito then got sacked and we punted; (5) We recovered an onsides kick but the refs, after a review that showed the ball had gone 10 yards they decided we’d made an illegal block- who ever heard of an illegal block on an onsides kick); (6) we hadn’t responded to Andre Cisco’s apparently game changing interception with two runs up the middle for one yard, a pass to no one in the end zone followed by the mysterious insertion of our back-up quarterback, Clayton Welch to throw a pass that never got there on 4th down and (7), after Jawhar Jordan went 81 yards with a sideline pass, only to get knocked out on the 3, followed by a run up the middle for no gain, a holding penalty, a 1 yard run up the middle, a false start, a 3 yard pass play, another false start and a 12 yard pass play that got the ball to the 6 but that was 4th down. I’ve never seen so many glaring errors that cost us so much in one game. Somewhere Jubilation T. Cornpone was smiling.
- It took forever to find out when DeVito was removed from the game at such a critical point. Dino finally told Matt Park that he had an injury that was “tightening up” and he wanted a quarterback who could use his legs. It’s hard to second guess these things but when you have a huge gap between your #1 quarterback and #2, teams usually kept the #1 guy in there if they can.
- Definitely injured was our star punter and kickoff guy, Sterling Hofrichter, who was blocked to the ground trying to stop a runback and then took a knee from a teammate in the bell tower. He was able to get up after some time and walk off the field but his day was over. If he can’t play next week, so is his career. He’s one of the very best we’ve ever had.
- Louisville had the #108 pass defense in major college football and we never really exploited that. 52 of our 77 players were runs. We ran the ball well but we needed quick strikes to counter their quick strikes. Louisville was also run-heavy, (41 of 61). Maybe it was the wet weather, although they said the wind wasn’t a problem the way it was at Duke. The Cardinals ran 16 fewer plays from scrimmage but gained 98 more yards and scored 22 more points because they averaged 10.0 yards per play to our 6.6. They averaged 9.0 yards per carry and 21.6 yards per completion: we averaged 5.0 and 14.6. Not enough.
- What is it with Riley this year? He just doesn’t seem like the same guy we saw last year.
- But we might have been able to if: (1) a recovered fumble hadn’t been reversed – Louisville scored on the next play; (2) Luke Benson hadn’t dropped a likely touchdown on our subsequent drive; (3) Sean Riley hadn’t muffed a punt – Louisville scored on the next play.; Evan Foster and Antwan Cordy hadn’t battled to see who would make an interception, causing them both to drop the ball – you guessed it Louisville scored, except this time it took four more plays; (4) Taj Harris had dragged a foot on a catch he made on about the 4 yard line. Instead his back foot stayed in the air and he was out of bounds. DeVito then got sacked and we punted; (5) We recovered an onsides kick but the refs, after a review that showed the ball had gone 10 yards they decided we’d made an illegal block- who ever heard of an illegal block on an onsides kick); (6) we hadn’t responded to Andre Cisco’s apparently game changing interception with two runs up the middle for one yard, a pass to no one in the end zone followed by the mysterious insertion of our back-up quarterback, Clayton Welch to throw a pass that never got there on 4th down and (7), after Jawhar Jordan went 81 yards with a sideline pass, only to get knocked out on the 3, followed by a run up the middle for no gain, a holding penalty, a 1 yard run up the middle, a false start, a 3 yard pass play, another false start and a 12 yard pass play that got the ball to the 6 but that was 4th down. I’ve never seen so many glaring errors that cost us so much in one game. Somewhere Jubilation T. Cornpone was smiling.
- It took forever to find out when DeVito was removed from the game at such a critical point. Dino finally told Matt Park that he had an injury that was “tightening up” and he wanted a quarterback who could use his legs. It’s hard to second guess these things but when you have a huge gap between your #1 quarterback and #2, teams usually kept the #1 guy in there if they can.
- Definitely injured was our star punter and kickoff guy, Sterling Hofrichter, who was blocked to the ground trying to stop a runback and then took a knee from a teammate in the bell tower. He was able to get up after some time and walk off the field but his day was over. If he can’t play next week, so is his career. He’s one of the very best we’ve ever had.
- Louisville had the #108 pass defense in major college football and we never really exploited that. 52 of our 77 players were runs. We ran the ball well but we needed quick strikes to counter their quick strikes. Louisville was also run-heavy, (41 of 61). Maybe it was the wet weather, although they said the wind wasn’t a problem the way it was at Duke. The Cardinals ran 16 fewer plays from scrimmage but gained 98 more yards and scored 22 more points because they averaged 10.0 yards per play to our 6.6. They averaged 9.0 yards per carry and 21.6 yards per completion: we averaged 5.0 and 14.6. Not enough.
- What is it with Riley this year? He just doesn’t seem like the same guy we saw last year.
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