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Message: [QUOTE="JeremyCuse, post: 5342642, member: 43"] Good stuff, echoed a lot of things I was thinking myself after watching the aame. Faceoffs are definitely a concern. I think Mullen is putting a lot of pressure on himself with Kohn gone. He ended up at 50% which is fine but hasn't really looked himself yet despite being 60%+ vs Jax. Richuisa as the #2 to me is the bigger concern. I think Johnny will ultimately be fine as long as he stays healthy but Richiusa going 1 for 5 isn't a great sign. I know Angelo is only a true frosh but the staff is gonna have to get him up to speed. As an aside I wonder if SU is going to have to hit the portal for a FOGO this summer. Richiusa and Fine are gone to graduation along with the walk on Lamonica ( I think). Not sure you can go into next year with just two fogos on the roster as there is no FOGO recruit in the 2025 class. McCool has been good from what I have seen so far but hasn't really been challenged. I worry he's gonna get ambushed a bit in one of the next few games. Agree on his clearing, needs work. Speaking of clearing, it didn't show up in the numbers but boy SU at times looked like last years squad. Ran dangerously close on a failure to advance a few times. I worry big time about how they will do against a really good riding team or a team who runs a 10 man. I do like English as a Matt Abbott one man clear, he looks improved from last year and seems to be more aware of avoiding doubles and traps. I will have another post on the offense and the good signs from that end (and a few worries) but the biggest concern for me now is the lack of disciplined play. Way to many penalties today. I think we had 5 in the 1st quarter, just isn't going to work at all against a majority of our schedule. It's been one of the main problems/culprits of the Gait area and doesn't look much improved if I am being honest. We also seem determined to draw an offside penalty at least once a game. Real big test on Monday. Gait didn't seem overly concerned in his presser on the bad second half and essentially blew it off. Hope he's right. Good news is the defense overall really has been excellent. Yes Vermont did miss a few passes/looks the peer teams on our schedule wont but still another real good performance. That close D unit is nasty Dwan on Pope was absolutely teh right call, shut him down. I assume he will draw Weisshaer on Monday night. [/QUOTE]

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