sutomcat
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I didn’t do a take on the BC game. It was too deflating, too awful, too unthinkable to write a post about. That was an awful loss and I will leave it at that.
On to happier games. I will start by making it clear. I did it go to the game. I would normally be a total lock to go to a game so close to CNY. But I couldn’t. I was shocked and deeply disappointed by John’s decision to sell a home game to the Yankees. I understand it was a good business deal but we are making $40m in revenue each year (I know it isn’t all profit). That should be enough so we don’t have to sell home games any longer. Like John said shortly after he took over.
I doubt anyone will notice or care that i did not go but I couldn’’t support this move by attending the game. I felt guilty about it and was weighing going as late at 8 AM this morning but my level of anger at the move outweighed my loyalty to the program. Please never move another home game.
Okay, off my soapbox.
I heard we had about 65% of the crowd, which disappoints me. But props to everyone who showed up to root for Syracuse. Props to the Yankees. The field looked good and as far as I could see, was in shockingly good shape. That was nice to see.
I think we all knew it was unlikely CDRW was going to play. We all saw how badly he was hurt late last week (everyone but the coaching staff apparently). Hope he gets well soon.. Props to Garrett for trying to play while clearly hurt. Props to Coach Beck and the offensive coaching staff for coming up with an off the wall game plan.
With OG out and Alford on the missing persons list (he is apparently still there but maybe only as a ghost), we really have 3 play makers left on offense. LeQuint (who is quietly having an all conference or close to it season), Villari and 3/4 of Garrett Sharder (2 legs and 1 arm). They figured out a way to get all three on the field almost every play and completely changed the offense in the course of 8 days. Pretty amazing. Yes, it appeared they only had maybe 3 plays they rotated among but they executed those plays really well. Mistakes were greatly reduced (I think Petry had a motion penalty, Ilaoa did as well, Brown had a hold and I think we had a 4 men in the backfield penalty.
We used Joe Cruz as a blocking TE on almost every play. And Max Mang as well as we went with heavy formations very hard. As an aside, it looked like Joe did well. Might want to give him a shot at TE if we ever get back to our normal offense. I think Bradford was replaced by Ilaoa in the starting lineup. Josh appeared to do pretty well aside from that costly penalty (we had a 4th and 1 at the time). Looked like Enrique did well at LT in the few plays I looked his way. Overall, thought the OL had a solid game.
Thought LeQuint was very good again. He makes good decisions on where to run and for a guy without remarkable size, he is tough to take down. Seems to get a couple yards more than he should most every time he touches the ball. I think that is the hallmark of a very good back.
Thought Garrett played well too. He lined up wide quite a bit, he did a backflip for no apparent reason (maybe tos show he was good) and when he ran it, he was very good. That first play of the game where he ran for 25 (or whatever the yardage was) set the tone for the game. I have a lot of respect for him for trying to play hurt. He slid early, completely out of character, a few times because I think he was trying to avoid getting hit. Guessing it hurts him a lot every time he gets hit. On the few occasions when he threw it, he looked like he was in agony. Shook his arm, grabbed it, very hard to watch.
And then there was the primary Wildcat guy. Dan Villari seemed to make a play every time we really needed one. He ran really hard, broke tackles and ankles on seemingly every run and just seemed to inspire a downtrodden team with his resolution and toughness. When he was in HS, he played on a crappy HS team. He took them from nowhere to the LI championship game at least once. Maybe twice. Too lazy to che…. But what you saw today is a small sample of what he did in HS, where he was amazing. Hope we can add a couple more passing plays to the Wildcat offense for next week. I think people will be open and he can pull off some completed passes.
Pitt missed an amazing number of tackles all game long. Number 7 was credited with 11 tackles but I think I saw him miss another 10. Looked like he was pretending to be a matador. Ole!
Thought the defense played a terrific game. Pitt tried to beat us with a power run game and just couldn’t do it. Our DL was not dominated and the Pitt RBs rarely had lanes to run through (we still gotta do a better job on sweeps, where our CBs are not coming up and making plays much). Thought Marlowe Wax had a dominating game. Thought Isaiah Johnson had one of his best games. Some big hits. Some good coverage. Justin was on top of things as usual. Good to have Elijah back, He was missed last game for sure. McDonald did a nice job. Lowery was a factor. And Bellamy jumped a route, got a pick and took it back for a TD. That was arguably the play of the game as it pretty much sealed the win.
Denaberg did well on kickoffs but missed a makable FG again. He can and needs to be better here.. Thought Stonehouse had a huge game and was quietly one of the reasons we won the game. That said, he bombed another one that outkicked our coverage team and resulted in a long long return.
It looks like they are intentionally taking their time getting to the punt returner, which I assume is something Licky is telling them to do.. Not good.
I am not going to comment on the coaching situation until the end of the season. I think the team doesn’t need its fans calling for a new staff or suggesting new coaches while we have a staff right now that is still here and working hard to get more wins. Not saying others shouldn’t. Do what you want. This is America.
For me, I am not going to worry about how this win affects the staff. It has been a long time since we got a win and I just want to enjoy it for now. And maybe start to think about the GT game coming up next Saturday. It is nice to still have something to play for and nice to know the game against WF will have meaning, no matter that happens in Atlanta.
It has been way too long since we beat Pittsburgh. Loving that that streak has finally been snapped and looking forward to beating them again next season.
WAR DAMN OTTO! HAIL CUSE BABY!!!
On to happier games. I will start by making it clear. I did it go to the game. I would normally be a total lock to go to a game so close to CNY. But I couldn’t. I was shocked and deeply disappointed by John’s decision to sell a home game to the Yankees. I understand it was a good business deal but we are making $40m in revenue each year (I know it isn’t all profit). That should be enough so we don’t have to sell home games any longer. Like John said shortly after he took over.
I doubt anyone will notice or care that i did not go but I couldn’’t support this move by attending the game. I felt guilty about it and was weighing going as late at 8 AM this morning but my level of anger at the move outweighed my loyalty to the program. Please never move another home game.
Okay, off my soapbox.
I heard we had about 65% of the crowd, which disappoints me. But props to everyone who showed up to root for Syracuse. Props to the Yankees. The field looked good and as far as I could see, was in shockingly good shape. That was nice to see.
I think we all knew it was unlikely CDRW was going to play. We all saw how badly he was hurt late last week (everyone but the coaching staff apparently). Hope he gets well soon.. Props to Garrett for trying to play while clearly hurt. Props to Coach Beck and the offensive coaching staff for coming up with an off the wall game plan.
With OG out and Alford on the missing persons list (he is apparently still there but maybe only as a ghost), we really have 3 play makers left on offense. LeQuint (who is quietly having an all conference or close to it season), Villari and 3/4 of Garrett Sharder (2 legs and 1 arm). They figured out a way to get all three on the field almost every play and completely changed the offense in the course of 8 days. Pretty amazing. Yes, it appeared they only had maybe 3 plays they rotated among but they executed those plays really well. Mistakes were greatly reduced (I think Petry had a motion penalty, Ilaoa did as well, Brown had a hold and I think we had a 4 men in the backfield penalty.
We used Joe Cruz as a blocking TE on almost every play. And Max Mang as well as we went with heavy formations very hard. As an aside, it looked like Joe did well. Might want to give him a shot at TE if we ever get back to our normal offense. I think Bradford was replaced by Ilaoa in the starting lineup. Josh appeared to do pretty well aside from that costly penalty (we had a 4th and 1 at the time). Looked like Enrique did well at LT in the few plays I looked his way. Overall, thought the OL had a solid game.
Thought LeQuint was very good again. He makes good decisions on where to run and for a guy without remarkable size, he is tough to take down. Seems to get a couple yards more than he should most every time he touches the ball. I think that is the hallmark of a very good back.
Thought Garrett played well too. He lined up wide quite a bit, he did a backflip for no apparent reason (maybe tos show he was good) and when he ran it, he was very good. That first play of the game where he ran for 25 (or whatever the yardage was) set the tone for the game. I have a lot of respect for him for trying to play hurt. He slid early, completely out of character, a few times because I think he was trying to avoid getting hit. Guessing it hurts him a lot every time he gets hit. On the few occasions when he threw it, he looked like he was in agony. Shook his arm, grabbed it, very hard to watch.
And then there was the primary Wildcat guy. Dan Villari seemed to make a play every time we really needed one. He ran really hard, broke tackles and ankles on seemingly every run and just seemed to inspire a downtrodden team with his resolution and toughness. When he was in HS, he played on a crappy HS team. He took them from nowhere to the LI championship game at least once. Maybe twice. Too lazy to che…. But what you saw today is a small sample of what he did in HS, where he was amazing. Hope we can add a couple more passing plays to the Wildcat offense for next week. I think people will be open and he can pull off some completed passes.
Pitt missed an amazing number of tackles all game long. Number 7 was credited with 11 tackles but I think I saw him miss another 10. Looked like he was pretending to be a matador. Ole!
Thought the defense played a terrific game. Pitt tried to beat us with a power run game and just couldn’t do it. Our DL was not dominated and the Pitt RBs rarely had lanes to run through (we still gotta do a better job on sweeps, where our CBs are not coming up and making plays much). Thought Marlowe Wax had a dominating game. Thought Isaiah Johnson had one of his best games. Some big hits. Some good coverage. Justin was on top of things as usual. Good to have Elijah back, He was missed last game for sure. McDonald did a nice job. Lowery was a factor. And Bellamy jumped a route, got a pick and took it back for a TD. That was arguably the play of the game as it pretty much sealed the win.
Denaberg did well on kickoffs but missed a makable FG again. He can and needs to be better here.. Thought Stonehouse had a huge game and was quietly one of the reasons we won the game. That said, he bombed another one that outkicked our coverage team and resulted in a long long return.
It looks like they are intentionally taking their time getting to the punt returner, which I assume is something Licky is telling them to do.. Not good.
I am not going to comment on the coaching situation until the end of the season. I think the team doesn’t need its fans calling for a new staff or suggesting new coaches while we have a staff right now that is still here and working hard to get more wins. Not saying others shouldn’t. Do what you want. This is America.
For me, I am not going to worry about how this win affects the staff. It has been a long time since we got a win and I just want to enjoy it for now. And maybe start to think about the GT game coming up next Saturday. It is nice to still have something to play for and nice to know the game against WF will have meaning, no matter that happens in Atlanta.
It has been way too long since we beat Pittsburgh. Loving that that streak has finally been snapped and looking forward to beating them again next season.
WAR DAMN OTTO! HAIL CUSE BABY!!!
