SWC75
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- HCDM failed to answer my question about comparing the attitude of the team following last year’s West Virginia game vs. this year’s Connecticut game on his show Thursday Night. The answer came in loud and clear Saturday night: this is a different team than last year.
- I wonder how many tams have twice overcome 20+ point deficits this year? (No- I’m not going to look that one up- too many other things to do.)
- Ryan Nassib came back from a mediocre first half (9/16 for 90 yards and no scores), to play lights-out in the second half, (18 for 24 for 238 yards 4TDs and no picks), including an Eli Manning like final drive to victory.
- Marcus Sales was again ignored for much of the game, (2 first half catches) but wound up with 9 catches for 125 yards and 2 scores. I also thought he had a third on the last drive but the refs either disagreed or didn’t notice that he was over the plane of the goal line when he was tackled. Sales catching three scores would have been déjà vu for USF defensive coordinator Chris Cosh, who had the same job for K-State in the Pinstripe Bowl. Marcus now has 46 catches for 670 yards and 7 scores this year, most of it coming in the fourth quarter.
- Jerome Smith now has consecutive games of 127 and 133 yards. He’s starting to resemble Delone Carter from two years ago. No threat to bust it all the way like USF’s Lindsay Lamar but do you want to try to tackle this guy? Not without a lot of help.
- I bemoan the death of the kick return in football with the three man protection schemes on the punts and the constant touchbacks on kickoffs. But I don’t bemoan having Ryan Norton to make sure we get those touchbacks.
- We finally got one. That blocked punt on a tsunami that overwhelmed the three men protecting the punter was critical in this game and may lead to some more plays like it. I like it.
- HCDM was asked coming off the field at the half how frustrated he was over the red zone problems. His reply: “What frustrates me is that we’re getting our butts kicked!” His new, more openly emotional, demeanor may be paying some dividends. Somebody got through to this team at half time and the tam came out with a degree of determination that was missing in the first half. They overcame a 20 point deficit and then a 9 point deficit to pull this one out of the fire. Another thing Coach said on his show was that his favorite game as player was not the ’84 Nebraska game but rather the ’83 Boston College game when, for the first time in his career here, we reached .500. And then the next week, we beat West Virginia to finish 6-5. “It was a sense of commitment by a lot of young men to get this thing turned around.“
4-4 with 4 more
LET’S GO ORANGE!!!
- I wonder how many tams have twice overcome 20+ point deficits this year? (No- I’m not going to look that one up- too many other things to do.)
- Ryan Nassib came back from a mediocre first half (9/16 for 90 yards and no scores), to play lights-out in the second half, (18 for 24 for 238 yards 4TDs and no picks), including an Eli Manning like final drive to victory.
- Marcus Sales was again ignored for much of the game, (2 first half catches) but wound up with 9 catches for 125 yards and 2 scores. I also thought he had a third on the last drive but the refs either disagreed or didn’t notice that he was over the plane of the goal line when he was tackled. Sales catching three scores would have been déjà vu for USF defensive coordinator Chris Cosh, who had the same job for K-State in the Pinstripe Bowl. Marcus now has 46 catches for 670 yards and 7 scores this year, most of it coming in the fourth quarter.
- Jerome Smith now has consecutive games of 127 and 133 yards. He’s starting to resemble Delone Carter from two years ago. No threat to bust it all the way like USF’s Lindsay Lamar but do you want to try to tackle this guy? Not without a lot of help.
- I bemoan the death of the kick return in football with the three man protection schemes on the punts and the constant touchbacks on kickoffs. But I don’t bemoan having Ryan Norton to make sure we get those touchbacks.
- We finally got one. That blocked punt on a tsunami that overwhelmed the three men protecting the punter was critical in this game and may lead to some more plays like it. I like it.
- HCDM was asked coming off the field at the half how frustrated he was over the red zone problems. His reply: “What frustrates me is that we’re getting our butts kicked!” His new, more openly emotional, demeanor may be paying some dividends. Somebody got through to this team at half time and the tam came out with a degree of determination that was missing in the first half. They overcame a 20 point deficit and then a 9 point deficit to pull this one out of the fire. Another thing Coach said on his show was that his favorite game as player was not the ’84 Nebraska game but rather the ’83 Boston College game when, for the first time in his career here, we reached .500. And then the next week, we beat West Virginia to finish 6-5. “It was a sense of commitment by a lot of young men to get this thing turned around.“
4-4 with 4 more
LET’S GO ORANGE!!!
