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[QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 5517687, member: 225"]
Hoping that our D would show up was kind of like hoping for a winning lotto ticket. Or even hoping for a ticket that didn't open your wallet, take out all the cash, and kick you in the groin.

Under Fran, our D has been poor and that was even before yesterday's train wreck.

I don't recall how we ranked nationally last year or this year but it was not good. In addition, last year, we finished 14th out of 17 ACC in defense, and THIS WAS ON A 10-WIN TEAM! A team that won 10 games was still one of the worst defensive teams in the conference. ERob should be sending McCord NIL $$$ for life.

Prior to yesterday's stinker, we still ranked 14th in the conference on defense this year and THAT INCLUDED GAMES VS COLGATE AND UCONN.! Thanks to yesterday's fiasco, we now rank 16th out of 17 ACC teams on defense.

We might say that the offense didn't do the D any favors yesterday, and while that's true, what about all of last year? What about the games this year with Angeli? It kind of throws any excuse for the D right out the window.

We all hope that Rickie or somebody can improve the offense from yesterday, but even if they do, we still have whatever Saturday morning cartoon festival is going on over on the defensive side of the ball.
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