SWC75
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- 37-44…40-37…51-41. It’s fun and exciting but we can’t continue to have every game a shoot-out and expect things will go our way. Until the final minutes, our second half defense was totally over-matched. We had to be operating at maximum offensive efficiency to stay in front. Are we going to be able to do that each game?
- The injuries are piling up in our defensive backfield. The worst, (apparently was went iffy Melifonwu, in Matt Park’s words, “blew a tire” trying to keep up with Kelvin Harmon, who had 11 catches for 247 yards. We gave up passes of 67, 74, 43, 49 and 49 yards, in part because our guys were playing in pain.
- We had some very ill-timed penalties. Riley roughed the NC State punter to allow them to retain possession in the second quarter. The next play was the 74 yarder TD to Harmon. DeVito scrambled late in the half. If he had stepped forward, he’d have had time to look down field and maybe complete a pass. Instead, he went backwards and threw the ball out of bounds while being chased but before he got outside the tackles. The result was intentional grounding which took us out of field goal range and cost us a down. The drive had looked pretty good to that point but we wound up punting. Early in the fourth quarter a pass interference call gave the Wolfpack a first down on the SU 16. It had been 2nd and 16. Aaron Roberts had a hold at 3rd and 1 while we were trying to run out the clock.
- The schedule lightens up at this point with games against Wake Forest and Louisville. But remember that we figured Pitt and UNC would be easy after we almost beat Clemson. Nothing comes easy for the ‘Cuse.
- The injuries are piling up in our defensive backfield. The worst, (apparently was went iffy Melifonwu, in Matt Park’s words, “blew a tire” trying to keep up with Kelvin Harmon, who had 11 catches for 247 yards. We gave up passes of 67, 74, 43, 49 and 49 yards, in part because our guys were playing in pain.
- We had some very ill-timed penalties. Riley roughed the NC State punter to allow them to retain possession in the second quarter. The next play was the 74 yarder TD to Harmon. DeVito scrambled late in the half. If he had stepped forward, he’d have had time to look down field and maybe complete a pass. Instead, he went backwards and threw the ball out of bounds while being chased but before he got outside the tackles. The result was intentional grounding which took us out of field goal range and cost us a down. The drive had looked pretty good to that point but we wound up punting. Early in the fourth quarter a pass interference call gave the Wolfpack a first down on the SU 16. It had been 2nd and 16. Aaron Roberts had a hold at 3rd and 1 while we were trying to run out the clock.
- The schedule lightens up at this point with games against Wake Forest and Louisville. But remember that we figured Pitt and UNC would be easy after we almost beat Clemson. Nothing comes easy for the ‘Cuse.
